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The role of a special educator in the process of balancing of a family with the birth of a child with serious disabilities.
KOBERNOVÁ, Nicola
The thesis deals with the process of balancing of a family with the birth of a child with serious disabilities. Concretely it deals the role of special educator in this process. The theoretical part of the thesis is focused to family and siblings of the child with serious disabilities and the strategies of coping of a difficult life situation, the so-called coping. It clarifies the issue of serious disabilities. It pays attention to the system of special education centers and their frequency shows an example of centers in South Bohemia. Concretely it concentrates on a special educator, their profile and system of education. The aim of investigative part of the thesis is to find out what role of special educator in process of balancing of a family with the birth of a child with serious disabilities is. To fulfill this aim interviews with mothers of the child with serious disabilities were carried out. During interviews emphasis was put on to ascertainment what they see the importance in the profession of special educator in and which way meetings with them were realized. The investigative part contains detailed description of the investigative aim and investigative question. In this part it is used the qualitative investigation by means of which the investigative aim is ascertained at five respondents. As a method of acquisition of data questioning was used particularly the technique of the nonstandard intimate interview. The outcome of the investigation points at the fact that particular meetings are very individual. It is possible be verify by comparing of gained data which present the fact that particular meetings are different for example in length, frequency, even in content. Families agree that importance of special educator they see they can consider them for support in process of coping with the given situation. Their help they regard as irreplaceable. The purpose of thesis is to points at relevancy of services provided by special educator. According to gained information it is possible preconceive that it is necessary to improve the system of foreknowledge about subsequent help. Possible means could be for example edification of special educator services, convenient interdepartmental cooperation at good level and increasing of special educator competence.
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Children with Disabilities´Mothers and Their Opinion on Self-help Groups
MOKRÁŇOVÁ, Věra
The topic of my thesis is the Mothers of children with disabilities and their opinion on self-help groups. The work consists of theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part focuses on the nature and characteristics of self-help groups, their typology and emphasis is also placed on the reasons for these groupings. Marginally outlined there is also the history and problems of self-help groups. Furthermore, the work deals with the family of a child with disabilities, especially the mother of a child with disabilities, coping with her disabled child and the impact of this situation on the operation of the partnership. The main goal of this work was to determine whether mothers of children with disabilities experience or at least awareness of the possibilities of self-help groups for parents of children with disabilities. The operational objective of the survey was the motivation of mothers to participate in self-help group. To meet the objectives of the pilot study was first used qualitative nature. It was based on semi-structured interview, which emerged from the research assumptions. The first is the assumption that mothers of children with disabilities do not have a rough idea about the function of self-help groups. The second research assumption asserts that participation in self-help group of mothers tried it, the reason is lack of time. The file for this purpose consisted of four women, mothers during the interview revealed the story of their lives, experiences and views on life with a child with disabilities. For the purpose of qualitative research interviewing method was the technique of non-standardized questionaire. There were approached respondent mothers of children with disabilities. The research findings showed that the respondents did not use self-help groups and that they are often not aware of whether it is in their vicinity any such group realized. The research was looking for two questions. The first is to examine whether self-help groups have influence on the style of life of mothers of children with disabilities. The second examined whether mothers of children with disabilities were establishing self-help groups. The research results point to the fact that most mothers do not feel that neighborhood is perceived as mothers of children without disabilities and that anyone would want to entrust to someone who understood their situation. It would like to know the opinion of others. Some idea of what self-help group means mothers of children with disabilities have a right that finding refuted the assumption that an approximate idea about the respondent's lack of self-help groups. Participation in self-help group of mothers of children with disabilities in general far not benefited, which is confirmed by the second research assumption. Respondents who have this experience, describe it as a great experience. They mention in particular a sense of relief from difficult situations or the possibility of obtaining the necessary information. The influence of these groups on the lives of mothers of children with disabilities is therefore evident, however, hardly can determine how much style directly affects their lives. The possibility of where the mothers were in contact with women in similar situations, would be welcomed. Similarly, the standing of the implementation group focused on children with disabilities for their offspring. But negatively to this question expressed some of the respondents who are already in people with disabilities actively involved, for example. Founding and leadership of nonprofit or
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