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Social skills of adolescents with visual impairment and their influence on the proces of socialization
HAVELKOVÁ, Petra
The aim of this thesis was to introduce the topic of social skills and their importance for the proces of socialization based on theoretical resources. This comparative study was conducted with a focus on comparing the level of social competences, especially in the branch of communication skills, and of people with congenital and acquired visual impairment and the evaluation mentioned in the context of the socialization process. A qualitative strategy, developed in the design of narrative biography, was used to fulfill the above stated goal. The data for the research were collected by the technique of repeated in-depth interview and analysis from the websites of organizations providing social rehabilitation for people with visual impairments. The research sample was selected by deliberate selection in accordance with the stated objective. The bachelor thesis deals with the specifics of congenital and acquired visual impairment and compensatory procedures of visual impairment. There are described the specifics of communication of people with visual impairment. Blind people with congenital visual impairment may have a lower level of social understanding. They do not have the necessary experience and lack of understanding affects and using of certain phrases and words. Unlike of those people with acquired visual impairment who have some pre-disability habits and experiences, this individuals are conected with congenital visual impairment, exhibit mimic, muscle stiffness, less pronounced pantomime, inability to make eye contact, and involuntary eye and body movements, which may lead to a poor understanding of communication by the blind. Although a network of facilities providing social rehabilitation has been built in the Czech Republic, only one organization, the Lookout Tower, offers non-verbal communication courses for people with visual impairments. This work can serve as a pre-research for further research in the field.
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Comparing the level of olfactory perception among persons with congenital or acquired severe visual impairment
Kopsová, Tereza ; Šumníková, Pavlína (advisor) ; Květoňová, Lea (referee)
Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Pedagogická fakulta, Katedra speciální pedagogiky, DIPLOMOVÁ PRÁCE Comparing the level of olfactory perception among persons with congenital or acquired severe visual impairment Autor: Tereza Kopsová, Vedoucí práce: Mgr. Pavlína Šumníková, Ph.D., Praha 2010 ANNOTATION: The work deals with identifying the level of olfactory perception among people with severe visual impairment. The aim is to compare the function of olfactory discrimination and olfactory threshold sensitivity among persons with congenital or acquired visual handicap. The theoretical section presents the basic anatomical and physiological characteristics of the olfactory system, the list of disorders of smell and olfactory testing methods in clinical practice, and a brief account of visual impairments. The empirical investigation is carried out using standardized tests, olfactory discrimination function is measured by a test of the University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT), olfactory perception threshold using the Smell Threshold Test (STT). The thesis describes in detail both the methods and characteristics of groups of test subjects. In the analytical part it focuses on the comparison of test results among persons with congenital or acquired severe visual impairment.
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Comparing the level of olfactory perception among persons with congenital or acquired severe visual impairment
Kopsová, Tereza ; Šumníková, Pavlína (advisor) ; Květoňová, Lea (referee)
Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Pedagogická fakulta, Katedra speciální pedagogiky, DIPLOMOVÁ PRÁCE Comparing the level of olfactory perception among persons with congenital or acquired severe visual impairment Autor: Tereza Kopsová, Vedoucí práce: Mgr. Pavlína Šumníková, Ph.D., Praha 2010 ANNOTATION: The work deals with identifying the level of olfactory perception among people with severe visual impairment. The aim is to compare the function of olfactory discrimination and olfactory threshold sensitivity among persons with congenital or acquired visual handicap. The theoretical section presents the basic anatomical and physiological characteristics of the olfactory system, the list of disorders of smell and olfactory testing methods in clinical practice, and a brief account of visual impairments. The empirical investigation is carried out using standardized tests, olfactory discrimination function is measured by a test of the University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT), olfactory perception threshold using the Smell Threshold Test (STT). The thesis describes in detail both the methods and characteristics of groups of test subjects. In the analytical part it focuses on the comparison of test results among persons with congenital or acquired severe visual impairment.
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