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Assistance as compensatory and supporting means of the special pedagogy
PÝCHOVÁ, Lucie
My Bachelor thesis is focused on the topic of "Assistance as a compensation and support to special pedagogy". The aim of my bachelor thesis is to complete theoretical knowledge related to the assistance phenomenon and to analyse the occupation of personal assistant. The aim of practical part of my bachelor thesis is to implement the comparison of legislative determination and provable working activities carried out by pedagogical and personal assistant. In accordance with the aimes specified above has been established two partial aims. 1st aim: to examine what the assistants´ work motivation is. 2nd aim: to examine the level of assistants´ self contentment.Thesis is devided into two parts theoretical and practical one.Theoretical part is devided into three units. First unit defines the key words: assistance, compensation and support, special pedagogy, social integration and inclusion. Second unit is focused on personal assistance itself. Related key words are defined as well. In this unit I also describe a historical development of the personal assistance process, working demands placed on potential assistant, possible complications related to mentioned occupation and of course everyday work routine. Third unit is focused on the personality of assistant and assistants themselves. I describe the historici development of the assistants´ personality, work requirements, work duty and cooperation with parents and educational institutions. Practical part contains the specification of work aims, methodology of investigation, related data gathering process and of course the data analysis. I interviewed pedagogical assistants just as the personal ones. All the data and results contained in my bachelor thesis can be used for needs of any related organisation recruiting new assistants, because it contains informations which could be useful when hiring people. My thesis can be also used as a background material for any further students.
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Integration and education of children with disabilities in primary schools in the chomutov region
KOLÍNKOVÁ, Michaela
The topic of the Bachelor Thesis relates to the integration and education of children with a bodily handicap in basic schools in the Chomutov Region. In the theoretical part of my thesis I deal with the terminology of the integration and definition of the term of bodily handicap, and I describe the development of the school integration in the Czech Republic, while I focus particularly to the support of the integration in terms of the legislative and economic funding. I aim at the role of special-pedagogical centres and pedagogical-psychological consultancy offices in the process of integration. The main goal of my thesis was to identify how the conditions of integration are fulfilled from the point of view of the Headmasters of schools, teachers, assistants, pedagogues, and, but not limited to, the parents themselves. For the satisfaction of the main goal, I set up three partial goals. At first, to identify the financial conditions of the integration, at second, to find out the extent of the awareness of the pedagogues, and at first, what the activity of special- pedagogical centres is, and/or of the pedagogical-psychological consultancy offices in this area of their professional work. For my research, I used a questionnaire survey at which I attempted to find out the opinions, attitudes and experience of the pedagogues as well of the parents of the integrated pupils. For the survey at the consultancy school facilities I employed the methods of a semi-controlled interview. Through my survey performed, I managed to find out that the addressed respondents showed, in the majority of the cases, a positive approach to integration. The Headmasters of schools see, as the core one, the problem of insufficient financial funds for the integration. The teachers particularly encounter partial problems directly at the time of teaching. The approach of all assistants of pedagogues to integration is positive, however their workload is not clearly defined. From the parents' point view, the conditions for the integration are good, and they see in it an unambiguous benefit for their children. Integration in the Czech Republic is legislatively supported, but in the normal life of schools it however has been facing both the financial and practical difficulties. Because in the Chomutov District, there is only a special-pedagogical centre aimed at defects of hearing, I believe that a facility focused on all types of handicap would be vastly beneficial.
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Importance and possibilities of a teacher assistant in school integration of children with disabilities.
ŠVEHLOVÁ, Petra
For my thesis I have chosen the theme of the importance and possibilities of a teacher assistant in school integration of children with disabilities. The research was conducted in the district of Český Krumlov. There are currently 20 basic schools and 26 kindergartens of which eight basic schools and two kindergartens have integrated pupils with disabilities. My two hypotheses are based on the fact that teacher assistants are the ones who, in my opinion, form an indispensable part of a pedagogic team, ensuring successful and beneficial integration of disabled children into the regular type of schools and school facilities and affecting the process of integration (hypothesis 1). Moreover, I believe that the competencies of two different professional groups, being teacher assistants and personal assistants, are often confused and neither professionals nor the lay public are able to clearly distinguish between their functions (hypothesis 2). In order to obtain information in respect of the set out issues, the method of interviews in the form of questionnaires was used. The questionnaire was designed for directors and teachers of basic schools and kindergartens integrating pupils with disabilities and also for parents of disabled children integrated in a regular school. The processed data are displayed in graphs and tables. Both the raised hypotheses have been confirmed. It was revealed that the respondents consider a teacher assistant as an indispensable element without which the school integration would not be successful. Some of them refer to their previous experience when no teacher assistant was available. The hypothesis which assumed confusion of competencies of an assistant teacher and a personal assistant was also clearly confirmed. The research revealed that some respondents suggested an interesting idea to unify these two assistants' functions into one that would fall under one resort. By this diploma thesis I would like to contribute to the explanation of ambiguities in the competences of a teacher assistant and a personal assistant and to promote the importance of a teacher assistant in school integration of children with disabilities.
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Empathy of workers in helping professions
KAŠPÁRKOVÁ, Eva
Empathy of Workers in Helping Professions The term empathy means the ability to understand emotions of other people. It is the person´s ability to understand the mental condition of the other person with whom he or she is in immediate contact. Such understanding makes it possible to understand emotions, thinking, acting, behavior and attitudes of other people. To empathize with someone the person needs to efficiently focus and concentrate on the other person and to have the sufficient will to do so. Empathy is a complex psychological experience. The objective of the thesis is to determine whether the attitudes to empathy and experience of difficulties associated with empathy are different among personal assistants and nurses. The research was conducted among personal assistants operating in the district of České Budějovice and among nurses working in the hospital in Jindřichův Hradec. The respondents were of diverse ages with a different representation of men and women. The method of the research was inquiry with a questionnaire technique. I formulated three hypotheses in total. All the hypotheses have been confirmed by the completed research. The thesis may be used as a source of information for the general public, as well as for teaching purposes.
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The role of an assistant by the integration of disadvantaged learners
KRÁTKÁ, Pavla
The thesis deals with the integration of learners with special educational needs into non-special basic schools and classes with the usage of supportive assistance service. The theoretical part is focused on the statement of specialized terminology, the explanation of terms and forms of pedagogical integration. The dissertation is defined in detail to laws and regulations which address this issue. The composition summarizes the differences between a pedagogue assistant and a personal assistant, their competency, provisions, job description, qualification and legislation connected. In the practical part there is a research. The aim of this thesis was to find out if pedagogical assistants are really prepared and qualified to their work.
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Possibilites of integration of handicapped children in nursery schools in České Budějovice.
TOBOLKOVÁ, Andrea
The Bachelor paper examines the available ways of integrating physically disabled children into the process of education in kindergartens based in České Budějovice. After 1989 the Czech system of education has been transformed and the transformation allowed new approach to education. The effort aimed to establish a system offering people equal chances of education and providing them with an adequate level of education. The paper endeavors to find out (1) whether disabled children could be integrated into the educational process as it takes place in České Budějovice kindergartens; (2) which kindergartens are ready to accept disabled children; and, not least importantly, (3) what are the practical possibilities of integrating the children to the process of education given in the kindergartens. To suit the above-specified purpose, this hypothesis was formulated: "Most of České Budějovice kindergartens are prepared to integrate disabled children into their processes of education". The hypothesis has been proven true. As follows from the results obtained, 6 (55%) out of 11 (100%), i.e. the majority of the surveyed kindergartens, were ready to enroll disabled children. Theoretical section of the paper strives to explain the concept of integration; of the personal assistant; the individual plan of instruction; and that of physical disability. The physical disability itself was split into several parts defined in a concise and clearcut manner. Practical section of the paper relied on a quantitative survey and the method of interrogation applied through a questionnaire. Prepared were two types of questionnaires: the first was intended for the kindergarten Headmistresses and the second was to be administered to the kindergarten teachers. Contacted were 13 facilities altogether, out of which 11 chose to participate. The two abstaining gave reasons - they were pressed for time; had too many questionnaires coming in; or were not interested in the survey. The data acquired were tabled and plotted on charts. Results returned in the questionnaires show that 6 out of 11 kindergartens operating in České Budějovice enroll disabled children. In addition, 5 kindergartens were found to provide the individual approach and 1 kindergarten organized the group integration. Seven kindergartens of the 11 reported no disabled children currently among their clients saying that no one asked to have a disabled child enrolled for this school year. At the same time almost all the Headmistresses agreed that such a child benefits the school and the other children. The findings can help to better understand the issue of integrating disabled children into the process of education at the České Budějovice kindergartens, and to provide a feedback to those kindergartens that are already prepared to offer such integration.
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Integration of the disabled kindergarten children
BOČANOVÁ, Petra
This thesis aims at problems that we face when integrating the disabled pre-school children among healthy (intact) children. To add to theoretical information that I found in printed and electronic resources, there is a complex scientific survey that involved especially pedagogical opinions - kindergarten teachers - and those opinions and attitude of the parents whose children now attend kindergartens. when evaluating the result of the theses, I believe that the aim was fairly, yet surfficiently met. Fairly - bacause there are lot of various problems that did not get the attention required. Surprisingly, the results show, both teachers and parents practically agreed on positive approach if we consider integrating children with special needs of education in the kindergarten environment.
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The issue of assistance care of autistic children in special kindergarten and primary school in Rakovník
BABORÁKOVÁ, Kateřina
Infantile autism is one of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). It belongs to pervasive developmental disorders. It is characterized by a triad of handicaps - deficiencies in an area of social relations, communication and imagination. In the education of autistic children is necessary the communication is with a visual support and lessons are structured. A goal of my thesis was to ascertain, how much of an assistant help is necessary for the work with autistic children and whether such a need is met in the practice at one particular school. The other goal was to find out how difficult is the profession of a teacher´s assistant and which problems are related to it. The research sample consisted of women-assistants of the teacher in Elementary School and Special Kindergarten in Rakovník. I chose a method of the semi-controlled interview with women-assistants of the teacher and a study of the school documentation and autistic school children. Findings of the research showed that an extent and severity of the disability at all students with autism justify an allocation of a teacher´s assistant and an increase of financial means. Though, the current number of teacher´s assistants is insufficient due to the lack of funds provided by the founder and it does not match needs of the school. The women-assistants of the teacher evaluate their work as very demanding and poorly rated. They feel a risk of the burn-out syndrome. Most of them perform also works, which would rather do a personal assistant. However the School Section has no funds to provide any personal assistants. I believe that a solution of the situation could be a possibility for personal assistants to be employed at the school, too and the founder would contribute more significantly to the financial security of the required assistant care. The school work would also be facilitated, when parents pay for the assistant help from the recognized contribution to care. But currently it only depends on the parents how they will use this contribution.
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Individual and group integration of mentally handicapped pupils within the framework of compulsory school attendance
ŠVEJDOVÁ, Kateřina
Problems dealing with individual and group integration of mentally handicapped pupils in terms of fulfilment the compulsory school attendance are very often discussed. In the diploma work I have concentrated on a research of fulfilment the basic conditions of integration and problems that parents and educationalists solve during integration of mentally handicapped pupils into elementary schools. Workers from specially-pedagogical centres for mentally handicapped people, educationalists providing education for integrated pupils and these integrated pupils'parents form together the experimental complex. Following methods and techniques of collecting data were used to reach the aim - the methods of standardized interviews, the methods of inquiry-form researchs and as a complementary method two matter studies. My diploma work could by inspiration for mentally handicapped pupils'parents, common educationalists, special educationalists and authorities of state administration.
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Problems with the personal assistance for people suffering from certain handicap
PÍCHOVÁ, Petra
Personal assistance (PA) is one of types of comprehensive care of people with health handicap, but it is very special, because client himself chooses type, extent and use of care. Without PA services, client would be dependent to live permanently in a treatment institution, where he would be nursed. At the beginning this essay informs readers about PA Tudory. On the first pages information concerning users and providers of this social service are elaborated. Further an author considers a new law Code Number 108/2006 Coll. about social services, valid from 1/1/2007, where the assistance is mentioned for the first time. On the other pages he describes changes, which the new law brings either for providers or users of PA. Mapping and definition of problems concerning this social service is a main intent of this essay. Autor tried to compare opinions of clients and their dependants with personal assistants´opinions, if each of mentioned groups understands problems equally or differently. Readers should among others learn what this profession means and make a picture how assistance runs and which person is able to pursue it. This essay deals with problems of PA and its mission is to show these problems. The main asset is in outlining problems of PA, considering respondents´opinions, who were users, personal assistents and families with health handicap and familiarization readers with personality of assistant and social service of PA. Asset of this essay is even bigger by enactment of the new law about social services and because of this, new problems in providing this services have arisen.
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