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Professional training and other educational opportunities of teaching assistants on the process of integration and inclusion of handicapped children
MALIŇÁKOVÁ, Adéla
The introduction to my thesis outlines the view on the integration and inclusion as increasingly used terms, when their meaningfulness is understood by handicapped children´s parents every day. Thanks to the current trend of integrating disabled and disadvantaged children into mainstream education, the work of teacher´s assistents is necessary. It points out their function in inclusion, which is extremely important and hence their knowlege and skills in the handicapped children´s issue should be more than above average. The assistant tutors the child, explains specific tasks, as well as helps the child with his or her personal problems. The thesis also mentions an opinion on the correctness, so that a pedagogcially oriented university graduate had also the competence to bet he teacher´s assistant, because his or her knowledge should be sufficient. This however does not mean that they should not educate themselves any more, and get new information, that is on the contrary. The work with children is a very responsible activity and whoever does it should have the ambitions to improve their knowledge. This bachelor´s thesis is focused on the overview of options of the teachers´ assistants´professional preparation in the current toplist of the South Bohemia region and it maps the available educational courses and offers of school facilities. The thesis is also enhanced by a general overview offer of educational institutions in individual regions of the Czech Republic and school facilities providing additional education or lifelong study. In the theoretial part the thesis focuses on the clarification and explanation of the term ´teacher´s assistant´, its legal interpretation according to the laws of Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic. A certain part is devoted to the historical development of the teacher´s assistant´s proffession, and it specifies their work competence. It specifies the current legislative definition of the required education needed for the proffession of assistants, distinguishing the direct educational activity within the class and indirect educational activity that consists of auxiliary educational work. It also explains the difference between the terms ´integration´ - ´inclusion´ and the terms connected to inclusion, e.g. inclusive environment, inclusive school, or inclusive education. It also defines and introduces the reader to individual types of handicaps that might occur in handicapped children´s integration. It specifies the particular conditions of inclusion for given handicap and suitable attitudes towards a functioning integration. In the practical part the thesis specifically maps out the available educational institutions from the region of South Bohemia, their current offers, focus and requirements. Further on it deals with educational institutions offering the study for teachers´ assistants in all the regions of the Czech Republic, including the national organization of the National institute for further edcuation, which cooperates with the Ministry of Education , Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic and with the Eurofound for regional development. All the institutions were addressed during the period of 1 July 2014 and 2 August 2014, addressed through questionnaires sent by emails to specify their activity and the subject taught. A semi-structured interview took place with chosen institutions to clarify information. The research part is terminated with individual interviews with chosen teachers´ assistants from the region of South Bohemia, working at primary and secondary schools, that took the form of semi-structured interviews. The assistants commented on their education, possible obstacles or the perspective of the teacher´s assistant´s proffession.
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The use of music therapy and its influence on well-being and development of competences among handicapped children
PRŮŠOVÁ, Aneta
My thesis on the use of music therapy and its influence on well-being and development of competences among handicapped children is divided into two parts - theoretical and research. The objective of my work is to explore possible effects of music therapy on the handicapped children. I chose a non-traditional form of music therapy among disabled children so that my research could be different. In the theoretical part there was defined the term of music therapy, described its history and its individual methods and techniques. Then I defined the term of handicapped child and other related terms. I described the most common diagnosis of disabled children. There follow a few examples of parents with handicapped children and their ability to cope with their disability in my work. I am seeking answers to two research questions in the research part: 1. Is it possible to see any changes among handicapped children regularly attending music therapy? 2. If yes, what are the changes? I chose a qualitative research strategy. In the next chapter there are described data obtaining methods, which were observation and a semi-structured dialog. Within my research I was visiting the Center Arpida in České Budějovice, the club Little Singers at least once a month for one year. Children who visit this club ( there are 13 of them) learn individual songs and then they present them on various performances during the whole year. The results of my research were described on several levels. The first level describes observed changes among individual children, the second level describes work of the club during one year, the third seeks more general answers to research questions. Concerning socialization of individuals at the same age in the group , children communicate and joke in the club together and with their teacher. They share their life experiences which are important for them. They care about their successful performance. Some children have a really friendly relationship with each other. The second result is socialization of individuals in society. Children are not afraid of getting out of the line during the performance. They lose shyness among unknown people, they are not afraid of asking about anything or asking for help. To reach valid research results I consulted them with a musicoterapeud leading the club Little Singers.
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Typology of handicap children mother´s and character their family environment (analysis be based casuistry´s in the book Celebrity in spite of oneself...)
MĚKUTOVÁ, Petra
The title of my bachelor?s thesis is The Typology of Mothers of Handicapped Children and the Features of their Family Environment (an analysis on the basis of case reports in the book ?Celebrities in spite of their Will...? by Miloš Velemínský). The theoretical part deals with the position of the handicapped in society. I focused, in particular, on how family cope with the birth of a handicapped child and what is the role of a handicapped child?s mother. Further, the approach to this situation by the family, grandparents and friends is discussed. Theoretical part also includes the stance of a child on its handicap and the question of upbringing of a handicapped child. I described the importance of communication with a handicapped child?s family. The aim of this thesis is to discover the motives which led mothers of handicapped children to the result that the care of the handicapped child became the meaning of their life; what motivated them in this respect and what influenced their decisions. The methodology of this thesis is a qualitative research, specifically the analysis of case reports from the book ?Celebrities in spite of their Will...? by Miloš Velemínský. In these analyses, I primarily focused on the facts which led the mothers to bring up their handicapped children at home. Their family and partner lives are described. Further, the ways how the mothers coped with the birth of handicapped children is discussed. In this respect, I also deal with the complications which accompanied them. These complications include, for example, a poor communication with doctors or the absence of support from their close family and friends. The result is a finding why the care of the handicapped children became the meaning of the life of their mothers. All these mothers accept their parental responsibility and love their children that they frequently devote them the whole life. They are strong individuals whose meaning of the life is to provide their children with the possible happiest life. The analyses also compare the family environment, the matrimonial cohabitation, the position of others and the doctors to these families. These facts are very specific in each case report. The support of their families, friends as well as doctors is very important to these mothers. Situations in which some of these aspects were absent are also considered. I have found out that the birth of a handicapped child can positively influence family life values. The research discovered the features of these mothers and reasons why they bring up their handicapped children at home. In particular, these reasons are their parental responsibility and love to their children.
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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 financing of a respite care for handicaped childern in Liberec region
KEJÍKOVÁ, Ludmila
Funding of Relief Services for Handicapped Children in the Liberec Region The theoretical part, divided into eight chapters, defines the following concepts: family of a handicapped child and society, relief services, domestic public sources to fund relief services, care subsidy, European sources to fund the relief service projects in 2007{--}2013, funding relief services by corporate sponsors, funding relief services through foundations and foundation funds, other sources to fund relief services. The objective of the thesis is to summarize the system, possibilities and forms of funding of relief services for handicapped children in the Liberec Region. Within my research, I applied the combination of semi-controlled interviews with the relief service providers and semi-controlled interviews with handicapped children{\crq}s parents. I also performed content analysis of documents. The semi-controlled interviews with the relief service providers showed that the current status of funding of the organizations providing relief services is not systematic. The results of the semi-controlled interviews with handicapped children{\crq}s parents indicate that the parents taking care of handicapped children in the Liberec Region barely use relief services. The interviewed parents do not distinguish between relief services and the other types of social services, do not know the organizations providing relief services in the Liberec Region and do not have even a vague idea of service costs. The research results lead to three hypotheses: the relief service providers in the Liberec Region must learn to utilize strategically both domestic and foreign financial resources. The relief service providers in the Liberec Region have the opportunity to start a long-term cooperation with corporate and individual sponsors. Handicapped children{\crq}s parents do not distinguish between relief services and the other types of social services. Keywords: relief services, social service providers, family, handicapped, handicapped child, Liberec Region, funding, financial resources.
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Support of families with a handicapped child
LUKEŠOVÁ, Miloslava
The family means an environment in which human personality is formed, where human capital is created and where future generations are raised and educated. Its prosperity influences the development of the state as well as the cultural, social and economic development. It is always a stressful situation for the family if the newborn child is handicapped or if the handicap develops in a child so far healthy. There may be inevitable changes in parents´ employment, in the lifestyle of the family, in the way of spending free time and often even in the relationships within the family. One form of possible alleviation in such a situation is the existence of social services. Act no. 108/2006 on Social Services is aimed at specifying particular types of social services and related allowances as a tool for helping. The intended outcome is a healthy, competitive environment in this sphere and subsequent growth of social services network. The submitted bachelor thesis is based on qualitative research focused on the opinions and attitudes of handicapped children´s parents. The parents evaluated the current forms of support provided for their families, the offer of social services in their region and the services utilization. The thesis also surveys how much information is available to the parents as regards the system of social help and social services, what is their first experience regarding family care allowance. This allowance is a new form within the Czech social support system. The sample consisted of thirty parents of handicapped children and the data collection technique was based on semi-standardized interviews and content analysis. The survey results yielded the following hypothesis for prospective quantitative research: The interest of families with a handicapped child in broader offer of social services does not depend on the nominal value of allowances intended for covering the cost of these services.
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