Following the tendencies showed in international documents we have given the disabled people in Poland access to open education. These activities are done in agreement with the ideas which have been promoted by special pedagogy for years, that is: the normalization and improvement of the quality of disabled people’s lives. The changes were started by the Regulation of the Ministry of National Education of October 4, 1993 which opened up integrated education in mainstream schools classes to disabled students. Another regulation, introduced on February 15, 1999, implemented the educational reform which gave every child regardless of the type or degree of disability the right to education in mainstream schools and which made schools responsible for facilitating it. Since that time the literature on special pedagogy has taken more and more interest in the notion of inclusive education. The researchers of this phenomenon keep asking the same question: ‘To what extent will the mentally disabled be able to adapt to learning conditions – learning in an ordinary class in a mainstream school? What kind of problems might they face?