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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 quality of life of children suffering with spinal muscular atrophy
KOČOVÁ, Helena
The scope of this dissertation focuses on issues related to the quality of life of children suffering with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and their carers and the associated social impact on families affected by this progressive and incurable disease. It describes ethical aspects of help to families with SMA and serious decisions in relation to the need to connect to artificial ventilation. Spinal Muscular Atrophy - SMA is a motoneuron disease i.e. disease of neurons, which are responsible for conscious movements of muscles e.g. running, head movement and swallowing. The prevalence is approximately 1 newborn for 6000 live births and approximately 1 person of 40 people is the carrier of the disease. SMA affects all the bone muscles i.e. proximal muscles are often affected the most. Everyone affected is in some point in life, depending on stage and type, reliant on mechanical or electrical wheelchair, in many cases also on artificial ventilation and permanent 24hr care. Families affected by this illness accept the fact of this progressive and incurable illness differently, this dissertation reflects upon such different perceptions on quality of life of the affected children, the carers. It forms a contribution in building a foundation for organising multi-discipline teams of experts with sole purpose of therapeutical interventions, to support the child and his/hers family. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines palliative care as "improving quality of life of patients facing life-threatening illnesses, and their families, through the prevention and relief of suffering by early identification and treatment of pain and other problems, whether physical, psychological, social or spiritual." Palliative care prepares families for these situations and should be provided along with whatever treatment options families choose. This dissertation is a comprehensive information base to support children affected by SMA and their families in early care in Czech Republic and in the process of inclusive educational integration into mainstream society.
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Possibilities how the support the family of a newborn with developmental risk
ZIKEŠOVÁ, Ivana
This diploma thesis deals with the issues of a family of a newborn with a developmental risk. The theoretic part deals with the most common problems endangering the healthy development of a newborn, also with family and the process of coping with the crisis. Further on, it deals with possibilities of family support during their stay in hospital and also after the baby has been discharged into home care, using the support of non-health care groups. The objective of the diploma thesis was to detect possibilities of psycho-social support for the family of a newborn with a developmental risk. The thesis answers questions of, how parents feel in this situation after the birth of their child, during its stay in hospital and subsequently after the discharge into home care, what kind of support services they use to help them manage this period. Further on it deals with questions of whether the information of support options is sufficient and whether this support system works from the parent?s perspective.This diploma thesis was processed on a basis of qualitative survey results. The questioning method of half-format with parents was used and the method of document summary analysis. The investigated samples were parents of ten children treated in The Developmental Care Unit of Neonatology ward in the hospital of České Budějovice a.s. During the hospitalization of the child, it is important, that the medical team communicates openly, gives well timed and clear information and allows direct involvement in the child care. The outcome of this investigation points out the important role of the partner, family and friends as the main source of support. Also sharing feelings and needs with other parents is rand as a considerable source of support. However, the mothers especially, miss this sharing opportunity after their baby has been discharged into home care. Another interesting outcome is the absence of a psychologist, who specializes in newborn matters as an important source of support for parents. The survey shows, how important the psychosocial support is for parents, not just during hospitalization, but also after the discharge of their baby. Whereas they feel that the healthcare service is adequate, they especially miss the psychosocial support after the discharge from hospital. This is especially true of families of babies with developmental risk, without any serious health problem. Listed subjects could be used by professionals dealing with care of newborn with developmental risk, who provide complex care for families of the children with perinatal condition. Therefore, specialized psychological help should be an evident part of the care provided. The hypothesis were determined on the basis of qualitative survey results, which could be verified by further investigation:Hypothesis 1: For mothers of a newborn with developmental risk it is important to get help in the framework of supporting parental groups.Hypothesis 2: After the discharge of their child into home care, parents would appreciate psychosocial support in the framework of outpatient service.
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Early care for children with disabilities, its significance and evaluation in the Pilsen and South-Bohemia district
FILIPOVÁ, Edita
Early intervention is a very important component of care for children with disabilities; it is vital that parents learn about its importance as soon as possible after the child?s birth or, as soon as possible after having discovered the child´s disability. Contacts on early intervention providers should be easily accessible to parents; if possible, they should be informed on the availability of early intervention by the attending physician. However, this only rarely happens, as is witnessed by the evaluation of the research processed in this thesis. The present thesis deals with the importance and evaluation of early intervention in Pilsen Region and the Region of South Bohemia as seen from the client?s point of view, i.e. from the point of view of the families with children with visual and multiple impairments. The thesis has been divided into a theoretical and a research parts. The first chapter deals with the theoretical basis of early intervention. The notion of early intervention is defined there; further to this, it gives an account of its origin and development, its distribution and legal conditions. The chapter is supplemented by an analysis of early intervention in Pilsen Region and the Region of South Bohemia, on which this work is focused. Further the present thesis discusses the issue of disability, which is closely related to early intervention. It deals with the definition of disability, the causes of its emergence, and it describes different types of disability. It also contains important information for families with children with disabilities. The concluding part of this chapter analyses the position of people with disabilities in the society. The theoretical part of the thesis has been based upon the analysis of available specialist publications and Internet sources. In the research part are defined the objectives and methods of the research, the characteristics of respondents are presented and the case studies published. Analysis and comparison of the data gathered in interviews is an important part of the research. The chapter concludes with the evaluation and conclusions of the research. The present thesis aims to evaluate the service and clients? satisfaction with early intervention service in the two selected regions. The research questions set for the research have been as follows: 1) How did the parents who found themselves in a difficult situation benefited from early intervention? 2) What would be the consequences for the families, should EIC cease to exist? To evaluate the outputs, qualitative research strategy has been chosen. The research group has included 10 families (5 of Pilsen Region and 5 of the Region of South Bohemia). A semi-structured interview has been chosen as the method of the data eliciting. The data have been processed by a qualitative content analysis. As the interviews with parents have shown, early intervention services proved very helpful to all of the families, although initially some of the parents did not know what they should expect. The main benefit everyone saw as the early intervention advisor attending them at home, showing them how to work and play with their child and how to develop its abilities. The parents also appreciated the opportunity to borrow tools and toys that most of them either would be not able to afford to buy or they would not even think such things may be used effectively as toys or tools. Everyone appreciated the psychological support they were provided with as well as the contacts on other specialists and experts; last but not least, they all enjoyed the opportunity to meet other parents. None of the respondents did note any problem nor gave any suggestion on how early intervention as presented to them should be altered or improved. The thesis will be used for the needs of Centres of Early Intervention to assess the provided services and identify those that were the most important to their clients, both former and current.
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Care for children with a suspicion to a congenital hearing disorder after their discharge from the hospital
POLÍVKOVÁ, Iveta
Hearing is one of the most important human senses. Allows communication in spoken language, so it is an important part of the communication process. Even when a child seemingly passively listens, learns that human speech is a means of communication, learns to understand the individual words, recognizing emotional overtones of speech, to distinguish different types of voice. From this perspective, emphasis is placed on early detection of hearing loss. Not all children are born hearing. Based on the implementation of hearing screening for all newborns, physiological and pathological, thrives as soon as possible to diagnose hearing loss or other problems and thus can be initiated early treatment. Next should also be provided to a child suitable care for the development of its communication. Birth of a disabled child is very hard for parents and often to others. Repeatedly, this problem is seen as a failure in the parental role. First of all, the parents of the child with a hearing loss has to cope with a difficult process with their child's disability. Where it is established permanent hearing loss, it is also a very serious health problem. Axle condition is most successful if it is initiated in the first months of life. This means that neonatal screening for hearing loss shortly after birth has a high potential to improve quality of life and life chances affected. During the identification of the extent and intensity of hearing loss in their child, parents should be empathically and helpfully informed. They should be informed about all the possibilities of raising a child with hearing impairment and the possibilities of compensation hearing disorders and the use of assistive devices. Important role in the whole process plays a combination of individual elements of the system, which the parents and their child acts. In the process should be involved experts and specialists who are able to provide appropriately chosen by parents all the information about the current situation in which they are. In the research part of the thesis, I used qualitative research method, which is designed for a small number of respondents. In preparing the interview I respect the work and the objective comprehensibility issues. The aim is to find out the way and ability to provide information to parents during an examination procedure and subsequent care for children with hearing loss. About the possibilities and the importance of multidisciplinary care for children with hearing loss, which was established on the basis of screening newborns in the hospital. To collect data and information I used semi-structured interview. It was the technique terrain data collection, through which I put deliberately targeted questions to the respondents face to face / face to face /. Everything went after previous arrangement by telephone with each respondent. With the respondent, I made the interview in their chosen environment. Environment that suggested themselves and in which they felt naturally. To select respondents I have chosen a combination of two techniques and that "purpose" / Caravan test / and "snowball" / snowball sampling /. I did data analysis by evaluating of individual interviews with respondent. I compared the processes of individual mothers. I have dealt with the support of mothers in various stages of the process, awareness and relevance of the information for individual mothers. Answers to questions from individual interviews I've been using categorical system and systematic classification categorized into individual charts. Finally, after the analysis of interviews with each respondent, I have come to propose some solutions that could be used in practice.
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