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The occupational therapy workshop is aimed at improving social and professional abilities of disabled adults so that they could take up a career in the future. It creates opportunity for multidimensional learning during an occupational therapy, economic training, sociotherapy, dance and rehabilitation classes, and so on. Participants of the workshop acquire more self-reliance, improve their communicative skills, learn about socially acceptable behaviours, and, on the whole, prepare for a career. The article illustrates the role the learning of the intellectually disabled in the occupational therapy workshop plays in the process of preventing their social exclusion, and is the result of the research carried out at the Occupational Therapy Workshop in Gdynia (Poland), lasting from December 2005 to May 2006. Methods used by the authoress included direct observation, analysis of documents and unstructured interview.