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Not all dogs are alike: a cost-benefit analysis of guide and assistance dogs in the Czech Republic
Vašíčková, Pavla ; Hudík, Marek (advisor) ; Schwarz, Jiří (referee)
In the Czech Republic the guide dogs for the blind are recognized as a compensation tool and may be reimbursed up to 100% of the cost; on the other hand, assistance dogs for people in a wheelchair, the deaf, deafblind, or other people with disabilities are not. This thesis explains the concepts of blind person and disabled person, and distinguishes among various types of service dogs. The costs and benefits of guide dogs on one hand, and of assistance dogs for people using a wheelchair on the other, are calculated and the results are compared; it is also examined, whether "favoring" guide dogs by means of providing government support on their acquisition is legitimate, and what it may be caused by. Further, the thesis calculates the maximum possible burden for the state budget if a support for assistance dogs is introduced. It also explores the possible effects of the impact of the introduction of this support on the markets for guide and assistance dogs, respectively.
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Field of application guide dog
PILZOVÁ, Jana
The eyesight is one the most important human senses which supplies us with 80% - 90% of information about the surrounding world. It?s loss or a serious damage brings big and fundamental changes into life of the affected person and his surroundings. The social rehabilitation constitutes a very important vehicle for the re-integration of the visually impaired persons through it?s fundamental methods which are the re-education and making compensations for the lost sight. The compensation devices alone have a paramount importance in the lives of people with the visual impairment. At the present time, the market offers a lot of optical, non-optical or electronic gadgets for the visual compensation. The guide dog presents itself as one of the best working compensation solutions in the field of the space - orientation and movement. The first documentation about training dogs that would help the blind come from around year 1780 from a Parisian hospital for the blind. The account of the first trained guide dog come from the 80s of the 18th century; a blind Viennese Josef Reisinger himself has trained a guide dog then. The first news about training guide dogs in Czech Republic come from the years 1922 - 1924. In Czech Republic the guide dog training as a compensation help for the blind or visually impaired people has been established in 1991. This work is oriented at mapping out the possibilities of the entry of a guide dog into public buildings (restaurants, health clinics, schools, public offices etc) and it?s further use for the free-time activities from the point of view of the guide dog owners and of the public. Further, this work deals with the statistics of the number and the territorial division of guide dogs in South Bohemia between the years 2008 - 2011. While looking for the experience of the guide dog owners with their entering public buildings and organizing free time together with their dog, the individual in-depth interviews, the data from the focus groups and experiments have been used. To learn the views of the interviewees about their use of the guide dogs in public places, all the documentation obtained from the subjects who trained the guide dogs, the fact sheets from the focus groups and the individual in-depth interviews have been analysed. To learn the views of the public about the guide dogs entering public buildings and their use for their free time activities printed questionnaires had been used. This work may be used as a basis for the argumentation in the forming of the uniform conditions in the guide dog training in presenting them and in forming the proper laws for using the guide dogs by their owners. This work also shows the possibilities in use of the guide dogs in their free time.
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Essentials and passibilities of compensative aid - guede dog
PILZOVÁ, Jana
Loss of vision or a severe sight injury means a very significant change in the life of the affected person. Compensatory aids play in important part in incorporating thus handicapped people into all varieties of social life. Nowadays people with serious sight handicap can choose from many compensatory aids, optical and non-optical ones. A guiding dog is one of many possible compensations of visual defect or seriously injured eyesight. For a guiding dog to become an approved compensatory aid according to Act n. 100/1998 Sb. further specified by regulation 182/1991 Sb. two basic conditions must be fulfilled. Firstly, the dog must pass a special training with a final test and secondly the applicant must be eligible to using a dog as a compensatory aid. The paper aims at providing an illustrative outline of the most typical situations concerning owners of guiding dogs in South Bohemia. During the research the author encountered many difficulties. One of which was the lack of unity of provided services by individual organizations dealing with training of guiding dogs. The greatest differences occurred in the service when handing over the dog (the extant and details concerning documentation of the dog, the health card, the extant of information for the future owner) and in the following service when a problem arises. To fulfill the aim of the present paper a Form for semidirected interview was created, which contains 4 fields (identification data, acquisition, possession and the use of the guiding dog). The semi directed interviews were aimed at the owners of the guiding dogs. There are 27 guiding dogs in South Bohemia. The greatest number of guiding dogs is in the district of Jindřichův Hradec. The author presumes that this paper will help potential clients to orientate themselves in claiming a compensatory aid-the guiding dog. The paper is further conducted as an orientation aid for administration workers of municipal authorities with extended powers.
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Typhlopaedic practice and its influence on leisure time activities in persons with impaired vision
TLAPOVÁ, Jitka
My thesis gives a brief insight both into the history and the present-day approach to people with impaired vision (diminished eyesight). I describe troubles caused by the vision impairment, the Early Care Center, possibilities of verbal and nonverbal communication of visually impaired persons with other people, guidance and reading services and some low vision aids, including guide dogs. The thesis focuses on visually impaired persons´ leisure time spending. I am concerned mainly about sport and cultural activities of persons with impaired vision. Specific kinds of sports suitable for these persons are presented in this study. I also mention the experience of intuitive drawing and the possibility to employ this activity in persons´ with impaired vision leisure time spending. This activity proved to work well in the primary school and kindergarten for visually disadvantaged (impaired) children in Plzeň. I also deal with computer usage as a leisure time activity. The objective of my thesis was to compare persons´ with impaired vision and persons´ with no visual impairment opinions on the life of persons´ with impaired vision. The data collected by the questionnaire method were analyzed and discussed. The conclusions of my thesis could be used as information resource for TyphloCenters to provide education on the need of a regardful approach to persons with impaired vision.
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