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The Use of an Applied Behavior Analytic approach in the Education of Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders in a Special Education Primary School
Prokopová, Zuzana ; Bartoňová, Miroslava (advisor) ; Vítková, Marie (referee) ; Franiok, Petr (referee)
The subject of this dissertation is on the use of an applied behavior analysis (hereinafter referred to as ABA) based approach in the education of pupils diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders in a special education primary school. In the theoretical part, autism spectrum disorder (hereinafter referred to as ASD) is defined within the context of current knowledge, its anchoring in classification systems, symptoms, screening and diagnostic methods, and supported evidence-based practices as it relates to treatments available to individuals with ASD. Furthermore, the theoretical part deals with ABA as a scientific field and its use in the education of pupils with ASD. Last but not least, findings are presented on the inclusion of pupils with ASD in the educational process both here and abroad and introduces the Pennsylvania support class model as one of the possibilities of implementing education with the assistance of an ABA based approach. The research part of the dissertation is divided into three research studies, all of which have one common theme; the education of pupils with ASD in a special education primary school using ABA. In the first research study, a description on the current status on the usage of ABA in the Czech Republic as it relates to the education of pupils with ASD in primary...
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Motherhood in women with ASD
Finkerová, Veronika ; Vozková, Anna (advisor) ; Hrdličková, Kristýna (referee)
This bachelor's thesis examines motherhood in women with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The aim of the thesis is to explore how mothers with autism spectrum disorder experience motherhood. The theoretical part of the thesis is divided into three main chapters. The first chapter introduces autism spectrum disorder, its definition, manifestations, and autism spectrum disorder in women. The second chapter focuses on the topic of motherhood, its basic definition, and selected psychological and interpersonal aspects. The last chapter deals with motherhood in women with ASD and presents the results of previous research on this topic. The empirical part of the thesis describes the conducted qualitative research. The research goal, main research question, and five sub-research questions were determined. The research was conducted through semi-structured interviews with five mothers with autism spectrum disorder. The collected data were analysed using the method of thematic analysis. Four main themes emerged from the interviews with the participants: me as a mother, relationship with the child, challenges of motherhood, and support in motherhood. Each theme included several sub- themes. The research findings indicate that motherhood is challenging for women with ASD, but also brings positive aspects to...
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Respite care for people with autism spectrum disorder
ČECHOVÁ, Kateřina
This bachelor thesis deals with the issue of respite care for people with disorders within the autism spectrum. The aim of this work is to emphasize the importance of this service, to raw near the content, the process, and the principles used to make the respite stay acceptable for clients with these diseases. This work is divided into theoretical and practical parts. The theory deals with characteristics, current approach, and terminology of autism spectrum disorders. Furthermore, it includes the etiology and triad of problematic areas as well as other symptomatic of ASD. It touches upon the diagnostics and classification of these diseases. It also deals with the families of children suffering from an autism spectrum disorder, the social services law, respite care and it includes general information about the organization of APLA Jižní Čechy, z.ú., where I conducted the survey research for the practical part of this work. The aim of the practical part of this bachelor thesis is to point out the importance and the principle of respite care targeting its contents, use, and the availability of lightning services for individuals with ASD. In order to achieve the goal, I chose qualitative research. To collect data, I created four versions of semistructured interviews - for clients with ASD, parents of the clients, personal assistants of respite care, and the service manager of APLA Jižní Čechy, z.ú. A part of the data collection was direct and involved observation during stays conducted on the premises of a Psychiatric hospital in Opařany. The survey research arises that respite care for people with autism spectrum disorder is very important, significant, and beneficial, nonetheless, it is not very widespread. The functionality of respite stays is built on an individual, equal, and empathic approach, communication, and cooperation among all participants.
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Maternal experience of raising children with autism spectrum disorder
RYNEŠOVÁ, Kateřina
The bachelor thesis is concerned with maternal experience of raising children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The aim of this work is to describe how mothers experience the raising of their children with ASD, especially to chart the difficulties they face in raising children with ASD and what life in their families looks like. The theoretical part deals with the definition of ASD, attention is focused primarily on the raising of these children and its effects on the family, especially the mother. The practical part is based on qualitative research and it relies on semi-structured interviews with three mothers of children with ASD.
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Family with Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder
DOULOVÁ, Lenka
This bachelor thesis deals with a family with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) child and with possibilities of his/her support in the framework of social services. The aim of the bachelor thesis is to complete theoretical knowledge of a designated topic of the thesis and, on its bases, investigate the possibilities of social services for families with ASD children in the Region of South Bohemia, and to clarify how much these social services fulfil theses families´ individual needs. Furthermore, the thesis focuses on a selection, availability, quantity and quality of social services from the point of view of a family. The thesis is divided into two parts - a theoretical part and an empiric part. The theoretical part is divided into three main chapters. The first chapter deals with a current classification of autism spectrum disorders, it describes their specific etiology and symptomatology. This chapter comprises a classification and characteristics of individual autism spectrum disorders. The second chapter specifies a family with an ASD child and describes their place within the society. The third and last chapter designates the field of social services focused on social services for families with ASD children. The empiric part provides a determined goal of this thesis together with research questions. The thesis used a method of qualitative research within a design of a grounded theory. During the data collection, a method of half-structured interview with parents of ASD children was used. Their answers were processed by a technique of open coding. The research construction results in the information that a predominant part of the respondents is satisfied with used social services. The social services meet individual needs both of the children and their families and they mean a big asset for them. The major difficulty they see is an insufficient amount and lower availability of these social services. Especially the respondents from small towns or villages would appreciate a bigger offer of the social services in the place where they live or a better time availability of already used social services. A great amount of the respondents expressed some concern for their children´s future related to their adulthood, mostly a need of assurance concerning further permanent care, job application and use of social services.
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Annotated translation: Un niño con autismo en la familia, Guía básica para familias que han recibido un diagnóstico de autismo para su hijo o hija
Schindlerová, Alena ; Obdržálková, Vanda (advisor) ; Králová, Jana (referee)
The thesis consists of two parts: practical and theoretical. The practical part contains the Czech translation of the introduction and the first three chapters of the Spanish parents' guide to autism Un niño con autismo en la familia, Guía básica para familias que han recibido un diagnóstico de autismo para su hijo o hija. The book published by The Institute on Community Integration (INICO) deals with difficulties of the inner acceptation of the diagnosis and provides basic information on autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The theoretical part includes the translation commentary where the aplied translation procedures, translation problems encoutered while translating and their solutions are discussed on the basis of the translation analysis of the original text. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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The part of the helping workers in supporting a family in the development of playing of children with ASD
Vomočilová, Zuzana ; Pazlarová, Hana (advisor) ; Matoušek, Oldřich (referee)
(in English) This bachelor thesis is about role of helping workers in supporting a family in the development of playing of children with ASD. It highlights importance of gaming for right children's development as an individual and problems which children with ASD can have with activities such as games. It also contains importance of professionality and cooperation of all of the supporting assistants in order to have complexity of the work. Practical part has two parts. First part of reseach was focused on role mapping of the helping workers, who are in contact with children with ASD. Purpose of this preresearch was to find assistants who are in the deepest contact with these types of games. There were interviews with those people in the second part of practical part. Second part is focused on detailed work with kids with autism and their families. It includes also group playing, possibilities in education and principles of right choice of it.
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Annotated translation: Un niño con autismo en la familia, Guía básica para familias que han recibido un diagnóstico de autismo para su hijo o hija
Schindlerová, Alena ; Obdržálková, Vanda (advisor) ; Králová, Jana (referee)
The thesis consists of two parts: practical and theoretical. The practical part contains the Czech translation of the introduction and the first three chapters of the Spanish parents' guide to autism Un niño con autismo en la familia, Guía básica para familias que han recibido un diagnóstico de autismo para su hijo o hija. The book published by The Institute on Community Integration (INICO) deals with difficulties of the inner acceptation of the diagnosis and provides basic information on autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The theoretical part includes the translation commentary where the aplied translation procedures, translation problems encoutered while translating and their solutions are discussed on the basis of the translation analysis of the original text. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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