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Student with a Specific Learning Disorder - Undertaking Studies at a University
ŠTÁHLICHOVÁ, Klára
Master's thesis on the topic Student with a Specific Learning Disorder-Undertaking Studies at a University is of a theoretical-empirical nature. The aim of the theoretical part of the thesis is to introduce the problematics of specific learning disorders in the context of adolescence and early adulthood. There is also a focus on tertiary education. The empirical part of the thesis the evolves around finding factors which determine the success in finalizing the studies of individuals with specific learning disorders at universities. This work is part of a research project GA JU.
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Learning Difficulties and Foreign Language Teaching - Lower Secondary Schools
Hrychová, Helena ; Klinka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Nováková, Sylva (referee)
This diploma thesis focuses on foreign language teaching to children with specific learning difficulties (LD) at Czech lower secondary schools. It aims to define learning difficulties and describe their causes and manifestations in developing individual foreign language skills and sub-skills. Moreover, the work with these children in the school environment is mentioned and the Czech system of educating them is compared to the French one. The practical part surveys the opinions of foreign language teachers on this subject and analyses the techniques they use with these pupils. Special attention is paid to the differences in the approach of teachers at schools with classes specialized in the tuition of children with LD, schools with extensive language teaching and schools with no specialization. The results indicate that the majority of teachers agree with the integration of pupils with LD into mainstream schools and they favour their exemption from second foreign language study. The individual types of schools differ mainly in the approach towards the presentation of new grammar, in the types of exercises used for the development of communication skills and in the forms of testing and evaluation. Only negligible variations were discovered in other areas of research. KEYWORDS specific learning...
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Providing of career counselling to pupils with special educational needs
Jenšovská, Anna ; Felcmanová, Lenka (advisor) ; Horynová, Jana (referee)
The bachelor thesis is divided into theoretical part and research part. The theoretical part of the work itself has three parts in its content. In the first part you will find information about the education of pupils with special educational needs, important legislation, information about support measures, and about school counselling facilities. The second part is focused on the different types of learning disabilities, the assessment of pupils with learning disabilities, how to diagnose them and how to support them during lessons. At the end of the theoretical part there is a section devoted to career counselling because it is associated with the research of my bachleor thesis. At the centre of attention are the methods of the career advisor, his competences, information about the clients and also the activities of the advisor. The research section is focused on the experience of career counselors, educational consultant. At the end of a practical part of my work are shown the research results, because the goal was to find out, how quality the service for these pupils is, how succesful are they after meetings with counselors, and witch methods are used for a work with the pupils. The main goal of the bachleor thesis is to find out if there is any big difference in providing career counseling to...
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Learning Difficulties and Foreign Language Teaching - Lower Secondary Schools
Hrychová, Helena ; Klinka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Nováková, Sylva (referee)
This diploma thesis focuses on foreign language teaching to children with specific learning difficulties (LD) at Czech lower secondary schools. It aims to define learning difficulties and describe their causes and manifestations in developing individual foreign language skills and sub-skills. Moreover, the work with these children in the school environment is mentioned and the Czech system of educating them is compared to the French one. The practical part surveys the opinions of foreign language teachers on this subject and analyses the techniques they use with these pupils. Special attention is paid to the differences in the approach of teachers at schools with classes specialized in the tuition of children with LD, schools with extensive language teaching and schools with no specialization. The results indicate that the majority of teachers agree with the integration of pupils with LD into mainstream schools and they favour their exemption from second foreign language study. The individual types of schools differ mainly in the approach towards the presentation of new grammar, in the types of exercises used for the development of communication skills and in the forms of testing and evaluation. Only negligible variations were discovered in other areas of research. KEYWORDS specific learning...
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Reading skills and specific learning difficulties in French as a foreign language teaching
Nemravová, Magdalena ; Klinka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Nováková, Sylva (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the topic of teaching French to children affected by learning disorders. It aims to describe various principles and their application into practice at beginners classes. The theoretical part investigates learning disorders as a whole with their causes, manifestations, diagnose and reeducational techniques and activities that are applied in practice. The last part of the thesis is dedicated to foreign language teaching in the context of learning disorders, fundamental principles and methods of partial linguistic spheres. Further on, the practical part presents a case study of two children with learning disorders during a French class. Individual activities are introduced that are appropriate for their teaching. Finally, two applications suitable for both class at school and home preparation are designed, with their main contribution being the immediate feedback that allows children to work alone. Regarding the rather practical character of the diploma thesis, a great number of examples illustrating various learning disorders are introduced in order for the reader to understand the difficulties that affected children encounter. KEYWORDS specific learning difficulties, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dysorthographia, foreign languages, French, reading skills, activities, reeducation
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Written expressions of pupils at the 3rd and 5th graders in diagnostic dictation
Dolníková, Věra ; Kucharská, Anna (advisor) ; Špačková, Klára (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the issue of written expression of pupils in relation to their region and the type of schools in which they are educated. It also deals with spelling skills of pupils with specific developmental disorders of scholastic skills. The theoretical part summarizes the findings relating to the development of writing skills. It describes two basic developmental models, as well as the diagnostics of spelling. The research part consists of two assessment methods such as the quantitative methodology and the qualitative research methods which summarize the level of spelling skills contained in the research sample. The diagnosis revealed that both of the assessment methods are reliable and comparable for the diagnosis of the specific developmental disorders of scholastic skills and their outputs. The research revealed lower scores amongst pupils in the region who were included in the conducted tests used for the research. This research helped to define similarities and differences in spelling skills between socially disadvantaged pupils and pupils with specific developmental disorders of scholastic skills. Keywords: specific developmental disorders of scholastic skills, dysorthographia, development of writing skills, spelling diagnostics, writing tests, social disadvantages
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Current practice in reeducation of specific learning disabilities of pupils at primary schools in Kutna Hora
Náhlovská, Michaela ; Felcmanová, Lenka (advisor) ; Kotvová, Miroslava (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the issue of reeducation of specific learning disorders of pupils at elementary schools in Kutná Hora district. The goal of this paper is to gain insight into contemporary practice in SLD reeducation, more specifically to find out whose job it is to provide reeducation, what their qualification is, and how they are further educated on this issue. Another goal is to find out how reeducation is carried out at selected schools, what study materials and aids are used, and this paper will also attempt to compare the quality of special pedagogical care at urban and village schools. The paper is divided into two parts, theoretical and research part. Theoretical part is dedicated to specific learning disorders, especially general characteristics of specific learning disorders, diagnostics, reeducation, and also education and care of children with SLD. Research part then deals with research survey at selected schools with the usage of qualitative method.
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Dyslexia and creativity
Brancuská, Hana ; Morávková Krejčová, Lenka (referee) ; Mertin, Václav (referee)
The thesis deals with the so called "positive aspects" of dyslexia, specifically enhanced creativity among dyslexics. It has recently become common to associate dyslexia not only with its symptoms and deficits, but also to emphasize its possible gains. Anecdotal evidence refers to enhanced creativity and more specific abilities of individuals with dyslexia. Based on the results of foreign studies that suggest a connection between dyslexia and increased cre- ativity together with the results of a previous research study covering this topic (Brancuská, 2012), this research study was carried out to map the creative potential of adults (university students or already employed). The research group consisted of 40 adults with dyslexia and 40 intact counterparts aged between 19 to 40 years (thereof 46 women and 34 men). The data were obtained via Torrance Figural Test of Creative Thinking. We then compared the levels obtained within the experimental and the comparison groups in three specific areas - originality, elaboration and provision of non-standard and unusual responses. The procedure aimed to con- firm (or reject) the presumption that dyslexics show significantly higher scores in all three areas. A significant difference between the groups was proven in the area of originality amongst the students...
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Aids for Students with Dyslexia and Dysgraphia in 5th to 9th Grades of Primary School
Šafratová, Kamila ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (advisor) ; Šormová, Kateřina (referee)
The purpose of the master's thesis is to describe and critically evaluate the learning aids, nowadays used to assist primary school children with specific learning disabilities (dyslexia, dysgraphia and dysorthographia) and eventually propose its possible improvements. The results of the research part are based on theoretical methodology and literature. In addition, some of the selected learning aids were tested on a small sample of pupils. To fulfill such goals, it was crucial to get oriented on the field of current tool portfolio for the pupils with given specific learning disabilities through relevant institutions, questionnaires and analysis of the tool market situation. The review and evaluation of the learning aids was finally done based on the outcome of the thesis research part.
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"The Positive Aspects" of Dyslexia
Brancuská, Hana ; Morávková Krejčová, Lenka (advisor) ; Gillernová, Ilona (referee)
This thesis deals with the so called "positive aspects" of dyslexia, specifically enhanced creativity in dyslexics. It has recently become common to associate dyslexia not only with its symptoms and deficits, but also to emphasize its possible gains. Anecdotal evidence refers to enhanced creativity and more specific abilities of individuals with dyslexia. Based on the results of foreign studies that suggest a relationship between dyslexia and increased creativity, this research study was carried out in the environment of Czech secondary schools. The research group consisted of 67 adolescents with dyslexia and 67 intact counterparts at the age range from 17 to 20 years (including 108 boys and 26 girls). The data were obtained via figural Torrance Test of Creative Thinking. We then compared levels obtained within experimental and comparison groups in three specific fields - originality, elaboration and provision of non-standard and unusual responses. This was to lead to confirmation (or refusal) of a presumption that dyslexics show significantly higher scores in all three areas. Although the overall results of the research did not demonstrate a significant difference between the groups, we observed a trend indicating a higher score in dyslexics in all the defined areas. Results of our research study...
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