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Influence of combined disability of children looked after the ARPIDA center on lifestyles of their families.
ČÍŽKOVÁ, Zdeňka
This diploma thesis deals with the care of a child with combined handicaps in the family. I investigated how the lifestyle of a family caring for a child with combined handicaps is affected. A sub-task was to explore this issue in a family caring for a child with combined handicaps who is a client of a nongovernmental non-profit facility, the centre ARPIDA, o.s., in České Budějovice. I used qualitative research methods in my diploma thesis. The chosen technique was a semi standardized interview with the parents and siblings of children with combined handicaps in care at the centre ARPIDA, o.s. A content analysis of data from individual client documentation from the centre ARPIDA, o.s., was used as a complementary technique. Based on these materials, I created five case studies of clients with combined handicaps. The theoretical part describes the important concepts and situations that are related to this issue. Particular attention then focuses on individual means of a comprehensive rehabilitation system which offer a comprehensive interdisciplinary care to families caring for a child with disabilities. In the practical part, I analyse the interviews carried out with the parents of children with combined handicaps. In particular, I examined their views of the changes that they arose in connection with the birth and care of a child with disabilities. I also had interviews with the healthy siblings of the children with disabilities. Thanks to these interviews, I gained interesting insights on this issue from the perspective of other family members. In conclusion, I state that the lifestyle of the parents and siblings of a child with combined handicaps is significantly affected by the birth of a disabled child. The parents often lose the opportunity to follow their professional careers and there is sometimes a negative impact on their health. They feel insufficiently appreciated by the state for their burdensome care for a child with combined handicaps. Due to this fact, healthy siblings become more mature and more sensitive individuals who are aware of critical life values. Based on the research part of my thesis, I defined three hypotheses in the end. Hypothesis 1: The parents are adversely affected in their health due to long care for a child with combined handicaps. Hypothesis 2: The most important quality in the care of a child with disabilities is patience. Hypothesis 3: Nongovernmental non-profit organizations are an important source of assistance to families with a child with disabilities in its natural environment. The diploma thesis should highlight the importance and unsubstitutability of families caring for a child with combined handicaps. This thesis may serve to professionals and students focusing on this issue, but also the parents of children with combined handicaps as their feedback.
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Possibilities of care of children with deep developmental disabilities and possibilities of their education in the social welfare institution of the centre ARPIDA, o.s.
BÁRTA, Václav
This bachelor work is focused on possibilities of a care for children with the profound mental retardation and possibilities of their education in the daily social welfare institution at ARPIDA Centre in České Budějovice. The aim was to chart and evaluate practicable ways of the care, upbringing and education of these children and to judge their effectiveness and meaningfulness. The education of the children with the profound mental retardation is carried out under § 42 of Education Act No. 561/2004 of Collection of Laws, which provides that the form of the education should correspond to psychical and physical possibilities of the children. The education of the children with the profound mental retardation is carried out under an individual educational plan, which takes into account the character and the degree of the disablement of the child and the possibilities of his future development. Specifically provided objectives and methods also play an important role in the education of the children with the profound mental retardation.An important element in the care for children with the profound mental retardation is a multidisciplinary comprehensive system of rehabilitation using medical, social, pedagogical and working means. It is especially aimed at a mitigation of disability effects, but also at an integration of the disabled person in the society.
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Model housing like a part of self-contained rehabilitation of children with combinated handicap
SCHÖNEROVÁ, Aneta
ABSTRACT Model housing like a part of self-contained rehabilitation of children with combinated handicap In my thesis I deal with the following subject: Model housing like a part of self-contained rehabilitation of children with combinated handicap. The model housing is totally new project which Children´s Centre ARPIDA in České Budějovice ( hereinafter {\clqq} DC ARPIDA ``) took up as part of its services.The project has been running for two years and its implementation is realized in the second grade of vocational tranining school of DC ARPIDA in the building of The model protected housing. The aim of the project is to teach children with physical and combined handicap predefined activities.These predefined model activities should enlarge their independence from other persons and increase the extent of their self-sufficiency in common and extended daily activities connected with housing. The model protected housing is designed for children who attend the two-year vocational tranining school in DC ARPIDA where they go through three month´s course of the model protected housing.At the beginning of the course the children go through ergo-therapeutical examination to determine the rate of their independence and self-sufficiency. After finishing the course they are reviewed to find out whether they have improved their results and how they have profited from passing through the course. The main goal of my thesis is to investigate whether The model protected housing contributes to the increasing of the client´s level of seff-sufficiency and why it has a great importance in the system of education and physiotherapy. Another goal which should be followed is to show how the children´s parents see the project as a whole, whether they want their children to take part in this project, if they support the idea of a separate living and how they want their children to live in the future. I used the questionnaire method and the secondary data analysis to verify the given hypotheses. The interviewed group was made up of the parents of children clients of DC ARPIDA. My main aim was to investigate how much they are informed about the possibilities of integration of their children to the society, in what ways the parents are able to support them, their willingness to assist in this proccess and what is their idea of their children´s future life.The proccess of integration is not only the result of school classes or experts´ and school staff´s effort but first of all it is the parents who are supposed to be the most important link in the proccess of integration . Their position in the proccess of successful integration is irreplaceable. The input and output physiotherapy results were used for the secondary analysis. On the basis of data obtained from this analysis it is possible to claim that the model activities which the children performed in the model protected housing help to increase the rate of independance from an other person and of everyday self-sufficiency. With respect to explicit results of the research it is possible to draw the conclusion that in all cases the course of model protected housing increases the function rate of self-sufficiency and independence from the others in the model activities. Thereby the basis hypothesis has been clearly confirmed.
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