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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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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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The comparison of services of early care in Zlín and South Bohemian regions
MIKULENKOVÁ, Iveta
The Bachleor work deals with comparison of services of early care in Zlín and South Bohemian regions. The sphere of early intervention has been neglected for a relatively long time in the Czech Republic. The investigative section deal with availability early intervention in Zlin and South Bohemian regions. Secondary data anylysis was also employed as an additional method for mapping early intervention providers in this two regions. The data collection technique selected for the purpose of the bachleor research was the technique of questionnaire. Necessary information was gained from information materials of providers and on-line sources. The main objective of the bachleor work was comparison facilities providing all-inclusive early intervention in this both regions. The results was collected of clients and providers answerback. The results, which resulting of investigation from parents, who have a child with handicap are same in both regions. Services of early care in Zlín and South Bohemian regions aren´t same.This Bachleor work can be used for a further planning these service. It can help for the providers of this regions improve the services of early intervention.
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Application of Mediumistic Ways when Working with Disabled Children in the Centre of Early Care
KOUBOVÁ, Petra
The work is engaged in the care of children with some disabilities of sight the centres of early care. The theorical part characterizes the children with these disabilities, it gives a survey about the most fregnently occured disabilities in the centre of early care. There is some information about working of the centre mentioned ebove. The work a also describes the metodology used there. The profil of centre activities is involved as well. The theoretical part includes the chapter about the families of children with disabilities of sight. The practical part involves e case study with casuistry of a client from the Centre of Early Care in ČB. There is described the Metod wich makes use of the ais called {\clqq}Little Room".
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