Abstract
The article takes a position on speaking rates in people with intellectual disabilities, where speech tempo is a research category. It presents the findings of research on speech tempo in special school students with moderate and mild intellectual disabilities, which are compared to the results of a control group – nondisabled peers. Students’ utterances were analyzed in terms of selected quantitative and qualitative aspects of speech. They included: the number of sounds used in a 30-second-long speech segment, the number of pauses, and also the percentage share of pauses in an utterance. To test research hypotheses, statistical analyses of the linguistic material collected were made with the use of the Student’s t-test, the non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test, and the Shapiro-Wilk test.
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