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Development of Children with visual impairments
Kravcová, Jitka ; Květoňová, Lea (advisor) ; Šumníková, Pavlína (referee)
The theme of this bachelor thesis/work is the development of a child with visual impairment and how to work with them. The work consists of theoretical, practical part and the annexes. The theoretical part is focused on the development of the child and how can this handicap influence its evolution. I also briefly mentioned/characterised the most common children's visual diagnosis. One of these chapters is focused on cerebral palsy - the most frequently type of handicap that can be accompanied eye disorder. The space in this work is devoted to the early care focused on the child with some visual and combined handicap. The practical part of the work consists of two case studies, the first one about the boy with visual and combined disability, and the other one about the boy with the purely visual handicap. In conclusion, both these studies are compared from the using methods point of view and from the providing services in the early care. In the annex, there are photographs of the equipment, which are used to stimulate sense of sight and visual training. Key words: Children development/evolution, visual handicap/disability, cerebral palsy, early care, investigation/examination of visual functions, eye stimulation, visual training
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Developmental Trends in the Field of Early Care
MAŤHOVÁ, Lenka
This thesis dealt with trends within early intervention programs. Early intervention is a social service aimed at helping familimies and children with developmental delays or disabilities since birthday till the age of 7 years. It is a field service with vast majority of work being done within family environment, rarely accompanied by an ambulance service. This provides a great benefit, as is mentioned in theoretical part of thesis. Multitude of new developments concerning education, financing or work itself happened in the last couple years. The theoretical part of thesis defines the early intervention itself, or "early care" in some Czech translations, as well as its history. Methods for client service are described as well. The main objective of this thesis is to describe main changes that happened within in several South Bohemia early intervention centers in the last 10 years. This goal should provide a summary of both operational and financial challenges as well as new early intervention methods for better work with client himself. The practical part of this uses a qualitative approach. A semi-structured interview consisting of 10 questions is employed, with 5 professionals from early intervention care from 3 centers in South Bohemia as respondents. Their professions are described in order to compare differences between opinions of administrative workers and care assistants. The interview was most concerned with changed made because of new trends, and whether those were concerned to be positive or negative. Answers were analyzed with the use of clustering method. In conclusion, vast differences were observed in early intervention field 10 years ago and today. Both methods of financing and education of assistants as well as enlargement of number of workers or capacity of centers changed greatly within the past decade. The results could be used as feedback for early intervention centers and students concerned with this particular field of social care.
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Children's Groups as an Alternative to Kindergarten
BENEŠOVÁ, Gabriela
This bachelor thesis deals with the children´s groups. It describes the care of children in children´s groups and for what reason do the parents choose them. The theoreticel part contains chapters dedicated to the importance of preschool education, the origin and development of preschool institutions, the position and function of czech preschool institutions in the present, their types and alternative.One of the subchapters deals with the preschool institutions abroad, which are characteristic as well as children´s group care for children up to early care. In the practical part there are described used methods of qualitative research and presented the found results.This is a case of study of two children´s groups.
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Centre of Early Care České Budějovice. Activities and current problems.
AMBROZKOVÁ, Edita
The Bachelor's Thesis deals with the Early Care Centre in České Budějovice, its activities and prevailing challenges. This Thesis is a descriptive survey of the phenomenon of early care. Its introductory section focuses on clarifying the basic concepts relating to the issue at hand and on the issue of early care in children with visual impairments and multiple disabilities, with an emphasis on social aspects and introduction of the Early Care Centre in České Budějovice, including a closer description of the provided services, activities and goals. Some examples of good practice are added at the end of this section.
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Examples of successful integrations of students with physical disabilities in the mainstream education
HEŘMANOVÁ, Michaela
This bachelor thesis deals with the examples of successful integration of students with disabilities in the mainstream education in České Budějovice and nearby. The integration of students with the disabilities is currently widespread and it can be frequently found in common types of schools. The thesis consists of three parts: theoretical, practical and appendix. The theoretical part of this thesis discusses the basic concepts which are related to the disability. The most popular types of the physical disability are divided and described there. In the following part a pupil with his special educational needs and learning opportunities is characterized in terms of the legislation. The study also deals with the concepts of integration and inclusion. The term integration is legislatively known in the Czech Republic since 1989. In the process of integration, the supportive measures for the pupils with special educational needs are considerably important. They are e.g.; the early custody and the special educational support. This type of integration should be prepared and planned thoroughly before its creation. The factors that affect this process play an important role in the proces of integration. These factors are particularly; the family, especially the parents, school, class groups, teachers, counseling, diagnosis, and also the form of integration. In any case the main aim of this study is to find and describe the examples of successful integration of students with disabilities in the mainstream education. Moreover, the partial goals are to find out the factors which are positively influencing this process as well as the factors that are not desirable in this process. The another objective is to identify the level of the teamwork between the school, parents and the school counseling facility and then between the cooperation with fellow pupil, teacher's assistant and the classroom teacher. To achieve the above mentioned practical goals the qualitative research has been used. The data were collected with using of the questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. The research sample consisted of five students with disabilities who were integrated in mainstream elementary schools in České Budějovice and also in the surrounding area. Furthermore, the research group was made of the parents and classroom teachers of the integrated pupils. The questionnaires with the opened questions were created for these pupils and their parents. The surveys differed in the varied number of questions and their content. In addition the semi-structured interviews were conducted with classroom teachers of the integrated pupils. On the basis of the results, it is apparently evident that the most important factors affect the integration of the human factors. All the people, involved in the integration, are the most important factors for the success of the process. It is a collaboration of the parents and school, teacher's assistant collaboration with the classroom teacher, assistant teacher working with an integrated pupil, pupil´s positive acceptance from the mainstream classmates and the school cooperation with the special educational center. The cooperation between all the stakeholders is essential for the successful integration process. Furthermore, the supportive measures which are important could be for instance; the special methods, compensation, rehabilitation and teaching aids, special teaching materials and more. The highest possible supportive measure is to establish a teaching assistant profession. This work also describes the examples of the successful integration while each of them is unique. There is no precise instruction how to provide the successful integration. It always depends on the capabilities of the school and on the individual skills of integrated pupil. Each student needs to be supported by the different security measures which can help him to overcome the obstacles that cause a physical disability.
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Social work with client families early care services focusing on siblings
GREGOROVÁ, Klára
The topic of my thesis is a social work with customer families and services of early care, aimed at siblings. The first chapter describes current situation and it is divided into seven units. The first unit defines the topic and the tasks of family who has essential role in children care, especially in care for disabled children. The topic of disability is described in the next chapter. I have explained the formation of disability, divisions of disability and then social impact on individual people. The special attention is paid to visual and hearing impairment. The focus group of The Centre of Early Care in Ceske Budejovice, which I was describing in my thesis, are the families of children with visual or hearing impairment. The following unit is focused on the topic of a family of disabled child, especially topic of healthy and disabled siblings. Further, I was focused on the specifications of social work with a family and social work with disabled people. There is a short description of therapy, too. The final unit of my thesis is dedicated to early care its definition, services, activities and aims. There is a description of early care, there is a specification of a team of workers and there are described concrete forms of help to families thanks to this service. The practical part of the thesis is a qualitative research, its main aim was to find out what is the main reason for social work with a family with a disabled child in terms of services of social care. There were two research files needed for needs of my research. The first one were customer families, the second one was a key advisor of these families. I used the question method and the method of a half-structure dialogue for my qualitative research. I created curriculum for two half-structured dialogues, one was for the families, the second one was for an advisor. Questions were aimed at the certain topics. These topics were leading to answering of given questions, although the questions within a dialogue with families were different from questions for the key advisor. The research shows that families have different options of services, which are provided by the service of an early care, the whole topic depends on a few factors, which service the family will want and need to use. The main role is played by the overall family lifestyle, its possibilities, aims and wishes. Based on the research, we can say, that there is a whole range of services that are offered to families, these services are available for a healthy sibling, too. Everything again depends on a few factors, how deeply these services will be used. Based on the results of the research, we can say that families caring for a disabled child edit differently individual tasks for individual members of a household and care for its children. Early care is a service which respects individual aspects mentioned above and takes into account these for needs of work of advisors of early family care. It is a service aimed at a family, there it is needed to reflect its possibilities, wishes, aims and try to make the service hand-tailored for the family to keep increasing level of its services.
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SOCIAL ASPECTS OF FAMILLIES WITH CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY
PECLOVÁ, Eva
The issue of families with diagnosis of cerebral palsy and their effects on social conditions, coping with maintaining the existing standard life quality of families and their children with this diagnosis with the assistance of the state and other non-governmental organizations, associations and other institutions has become a central issue of this thesis. While it is in the present period attached to great importance to this issue, a lot of things to improve the state including social support, but still this is not care at such a level as would be required. Reserve are mainly in cooperation government, school and primary school and family information's about possibilities, which can use to provide them.
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The role of a special educator in delivering of early intervention (early intervention services)
KOČEROVÁ, Nikola
This bachelor thesis deals with a role of a special education teacher in providing of the early care and the early intervention. The early care as a social service offers help and support to children with health disabilities or handicaps or with any threat to their development. This care, respectively the support, involves more than just a disabled child, but his entire family. In the theoretical part of the thesis I devote to a special education teacher who belongs to the so called helping professions as well as to his place in a framework of a multidisciplinary team. I also draw my attention to his professional competencies and personal dispositions which I consider to be crucial for his professional work with clients. Marginally I devote to a description of the health disability, its different types and characteristics. Finally, I define concepts of the early care and the early intervention (support).Further I deal in detail with an Early Care Centre, in particular its characteristics, types and locations of the Early Care Centres in the territory of the Czech Republic, including their financing and grounds in our current legislation. In this context I try to define the role of the special education teacher as an important member of the staff in the performance of the social service the early care. I also pay my attention to the Special Education Centres, which can provide, inter alia, as well as so called the early intervention (support). The early intervention is a difficult task and that is why I included also activities of Arpida Centre in České Budějovice in the theoretical part just with regard to a different way of an implementation of this social service, because they provide it primarily for outpatients. The practical part of the bachelor thesis defines objectives of the research. The main objective is to compare professional competencies of the special education teacher acting in the early care defined in the current legislation of the Czech Republic with a description of his real job. The partial objective is to determine actual experience and opinions of special education teachers working within the early care, respectively the early intervention (support) on the appropriate legislation that addresses that issue. Then there relates to it an effort to try to determine the role or the task of the special education teachers which they receive on basis of their professional work with clients in the context of the early care. Based on the target there are defined research questions: Their specific wording is: Has the special education teacher enough competencies to do his job? More: Where do the special education teachers see the biggest problems in the content of the legislation? What role the special education teacher feels to play in providing his services in the framework of the early care, respectively early intervention? In the practical part I also defined a methodology for data collection, when I chose the qualitative research. Data acquisition was carried out by an interviewing technique with a help of a standardized interview that respondents answered freely without my intervention. In the practical part of my bachelor thesis there I also describe the research group and the terrain. The target groups are: two special education women teachers from the Centre of Early Care in České Budějovice, two special education women teacher from the Special Education Centre at Arpida Centre, than one special education woman teacher from the Special Education Centre at the Kindergarten, Elementary and Secondary School for hearing impaired in České Budějovice and a responsible person for the social service of the early care provided by Arpida Centre in České Budějovice. The research was conducted in workrooms of individual interviewed during the months of March and beginning of April.
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The Implementation of Socio-therapeutic Activities in Early Intervention Centers.
SVOBODOVÁ, Ilona
An early care is discussed more often in the last few years. Both specialists and non-professionals are aware of its importance in development of a child with its specific needs. However almost no one knows about actual services which can be provided by the early care. Most people learn about them when they or someone close to them start to use them. This thesis has a theoretical and a practical part. It focuses on services which are offered by the early care. In the theoretical part I focused on questions, what is the early care, what are its aims, forms, principles, standards, programs, functions and purposes. In the practical part I gave attention to particular providers of social service of the early care in the south of Bohemia. I tried to map forms of implemented socially therapeutic activities. I chose qualitative research and a method of semi- standardized interview which was made with managers or representatives of centres. I obtained information about socially therapeutic services and their implementation. I recorded services preferred by social workers and their reasons. It emerges from discussions that social workers favour mainly stays and socially therapeutic activities. I also found future plans of providers of social service of the early care. These plans very often depend on financial funds. I also made a few suggestions which could help to improve services of providers of the early care in the south of Bohemia.
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Comprehensive rehabilitation of children with infantile cerebral paralysis up to three years.
DANÍČKOVÁ, Markéta
The baccalaureate thesis describes a complex rehabilitation system in the care of children with suspected diagnosis of poliomyelitis (PM) or with diagnose PM under 3 years of age. The thesis is divided in two major parts. The first part is theoretic and the second one focuses on practical application. Chapter 1 characterizes PM and presents PM as combined disability including psychological issues of children with PM. The first part furthermore presents the Tudory of individua rehabilitation means as an integrated system including necessary early care. The practical part highlights theadvantages and principles of good functioning of early care, while mapping the situation of clients in their families. This part also presents case studies of children with PM. The basic research instruments included semi-standardized interview with the patente and participant Professional, observation and analysis of documents dutiny consultations.
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