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Comparison of early childhood education of children with intellectual disabilities in the Czech Republic and the USA
Stejskalová, Katarína ; Šumníková, Pavlína (advisor) ; Němec, Zbyněk (referee)
The thesis is focused on the comparison of the early childhood education of children with intellectual disabilities in the Czech Republic and the USA. In the introductory chapters, there is discussed an early education, the problem of children with intellectual disabilities and the family of a disabled child. The comparison is preceded by an analysis of early childhood education systems for children with disabilities in both countries. An analysis of early childhood education in the United States has revealed facts that have a significant impact on the choice of areas of comparison (a significant part of education regulation is under regulations of individual states), but also on the achievement of the goal of the thesis (children with intellectual disabilities are, in most cases, included in the category "developmental delay" together with children with a different types of disabilities, and therefore the comparison only by the category "intellectual disability" would not have a meaningful value). For this reason, the subject of comparison is extended to the early childhood education of children with disabilities. The thesis compares the following areas related to early intervention: parental awareness, capacity and financial accessibility, service continuity, coordination, family role and historical...
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