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Music education in visually impaired students in primary education, especially at elementary schools of art
MINAŘÍKOVÁ, Mirka
The Bachelor thesis deals with the issue of music education in visually-impaired students at the first stage of elementary school. The thesis focuses on elementary art schools. The goal of the thesis has been to use a theoretical foundation in order to describe and map out the music education of visually impaired elementary art school students. The theoretical part contains three main chapters, the first of which explains the term visual impairment and lists its various categories while mentioning options for using the auditory, olfactory, and gustatory senses as compensatory senses by the visually impaired. The second chapter summarily describes the options and methods of educating visually impaired students. The third, last chapter focuses on the field of music education. The largest part deals with the music education of visually impaired students in elementary art schools. A qualitative procedure was used in the practical part of the thesis to attain its research goals. Questioning and semi-structured interviews were used for data collection. A total of 8 respondents, from the ranks of Jižní Čechy Region elementary art school presidents, vice-presidents, and teachers, have been interviewed, with all of whom having experience with teaching visually impaired students. The output of processing the results of the practical part leads to several findings. Teachers who teach visually impaired student and lack the specialized education for teaching such students have only one option for leading their students methodically-namely to stay in touch and cooperate with the teachers of the Jan Deyl Conservatory in Prague. Adopting the Braille writing system as well as theoretical basics of music education, and thereby the actual execution of music education, are both very important in allowing a visually impaired student to play a musical instrument and in opening up to them the possibility of further education in an artistic field. What matters in playing a musical instrument is correct initiation of lessons, cooperation between the teacher and the child and his/her parents, and educational rigor on part of the teacher , who must take into account the personal capabilities, options, and needs of a student. There are several ways of including visually impaired students in collective activities. The workplace application of musical skills in visually impaired students is a common, yet often complicated thing. The thesis may raise teachers? awareness of visually impaired children and the related educational options. It may also lead to deepening the topic of expanding one?s theoretical and practical knowledge.
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Information and communication technology as a tool to compensate information deficit of pupils with visual impairment in primary education.
BRABCOVÁ, Jana
Currently, new and better information and communication technologies have been developing at a fast pace. With regard to the importance of the use of the aforesaid technologies by persons with vision impairment in order to improve or eliminate information shortage, followed by their ability to be competitive on the labour market, and also the quality of life in general terms, it is necessary to introduce ICT into education at primary schools.The first part of thesis focuses on the theoretical solutions associated with vision impairment, such as the classification of vision impairment, specifics of congenital/inborn and acquired disability, socialization of persons with visual impairment and its compensation. Various educational possibilities for the aforementioned pupils are described later in this text.The main objective of the practical part is to specify the level of qualification of the ICT teachers educating integrated pupils with vision impairment at primary schools in the South Bohemian Region emphasizing the fact of whether this subject is generally a part of the education system. Another objective of this thesis concentrates on the quality of facilities of these primary schools in order to teach the ICT subject.The results of this research draw attention to the current situation in the South Bohemian Region in this area.
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The issue of visually - handicapped people and their independent movement outside ( the mapping of the route in České Budějovice: the housing estate Máj -
JANOUŠKOVÁ, Jana
Bachelor thesis informs us about the problems of independent movement outside the visually impaired and analyzes the conditions for their safe movement. It introduces the division of visual defects, characteristic of visual impairment and its influence on the spatial orientation and also about the possibilities special-pedagogical education as a process of rehabilitation for people with vision loss. The work assesses the conditions of safe movement on existing roads and means of orientation in the exterior, further complicating what kind of obstacles visually impaired individuals to move and what type of technical aids which is made possible by their orientation in space. The findings will be further used for practicing safe and independent movement, as well as for route planning in a public benefit corporation Tyflokabinet in České Budějovice.
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The Question of Cortical Visual Impairment of Preschool Children
HANZLÍKOVÁ, Petra
The bachelor thesis deals with cortical visual impairment of preschool children. Goal of the thesis is to clearly introduce the CVI problematic of preschool children, describe specific approaches of preschool education process of children with CVI and based on qualitative method elaborate recommendations for optimalization of preschool education of children with CVI. The work is divided into theoretical part, practical part and attachment. The theoretical part comprises of three main chapters. First essay focuses on visual perception and the cortical visual impairment is described here. Second essay of the theoretical part talks about affiliated CVI disablements. The third essay discusses the preschool education. Here are mentioned the development specifics of preschool children in the field of motoric development, cognitive functions and also system of preschool education for children with visual and combined handicap. The practical part has been elaborated by qualitative method and it comprises of two fall studies of two preschool children with CVI. The research area for this study were three kindergartens in České Budějovice. Following techniques were used to collect data: observation, directed interview and document analysis. Part of the practical section are also recommendations for optimalization of preschool education of children with CVI. The bachelor thesis can be used as a study material. Practically it can serve as feedback for optimalization of preschool education of children with CVI in kindergartens.
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Opportunity of sports realization for handicapped people in Prague
SOSNOVÁ, Eva
The thesis in its theoretical part deals with general characteristics and distribution of disability. The goal is to find and map the possibilities of physical activities of persons with disabilities in Prague, especially if there is a sufficient supply of organized sport. A closer look is devoted to sports activities of visually impaired, their classification system and the types of sports that they may operate. The practical part then explores the possibilities for sport for visually impaired people in sports clubs in the City Prague. For better orientation and understanding are assessed graphically different conditions and results of research that visual and counted showing fairly accurate the status in the possibilities of sport activities for visually impaired people.
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Health Education and integration of visually impaired pupils through physical activities and space orientation development at elementary
DRAHOZALOVÁ, Šárka
In my thesis I dealt with the issue of health education and integration of visually disable pupils attending the first degree (1st - 5th grade) of primary schools through physical activities + development of spatial orientation. The theoretical part determines basic terms and definitions which are related to this issue. Practical part is focused on the project called "Week of Health" which positively influenced all the pupils. The learners were acquainted with yoga and with innovative kinestetic activities in which it was necessary to use mainly the auditory and haptic perception. During the whole week the education was focused on healthy nourishment and proper lifestyle of young learners.
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Nursing care for patients suffered from diabetes mellitus, with severe eye disorder, being cured with insulin pumps
NOVÁKOVÁ, Kateřina
The reason why the issue of diabetes mellitus is a frequent topic is that diabetes is ranked among the most frequent diseases of infant as well as adult age. Diabetes has been accompanying the mankind for several centuries and the long-term research into diabetes treatment has brought substantial changes in recent years. From the original treatment, which our grand-parents still remember, by means of metal needles and metal syringes via disposable syringes with integrated needles, treatment with insulin pens, an insulin pump is becoming a great revolution in diabetes treatment. More and more diabetics are being converted to the insulin pump treatment and it is becoming a routine work of diabetologic nurses. Diabetologic nurses are those who are responsible for mastering the specifics of nursing care about diabetics during education in conversion to the insulin pump treatment. The late diabetes complication ? diabetic retinopathy is one of the most frequent indications for introduction of insulin pump treatment. The visual impairment caused by diabetic retinopathy means remarkable limitation for a diabetic in activities that might be a problem for a person without visual deficit. This is why these problems inspired me to elaboration of my Bachelor Thesis called ?Nursing care about patients with diabetes mellitus with heavy visual impairment, treated by insulin pump?. The theoretical part deals with the diabetes mellitus disease in general. It briefly summarizes definitions and the disease history, causes of occurrence and clinical picture of diabetes with complications. It also focuses on diabetes treatment. We are detailing the problems of diabetic retinopathy, visual impairment, insulin pump treatment and the specific of nursing care linked to the insulin pump treatment. The practical part is aimed at selected targets and research questions. The research sample consists of six respondents, diabetics with heavy visual impairment treated by insulin pump. Deep semi-standardized interviews were conducted with the respondents, extended by observation of the respondents during mastering the insulin pump operation. Sets of questions relating to the selected targets and research questions were prepared for all the respondents. The interviews were elaborated into case reports the research data into the output tables. Observation of the respondents during mastering the insulin pump operation was recorded into a prepared observation sheet. The output data were used for drawing conclusions and elaboration of recommendation for diabetologic nurses for providing nursing care to diabetics with heavy visual impairment, treated by insulin pump. The conclusion of the thesis summarizes the data obtained from interviews with the respondents and observation of the respondents during mastering the insulin pump operation and recommendation of possible procedures in problems arisen in providing nursing care to diabetics with heavy visual impairment, treated by insulin pump. This Bachelor Thesis may be applied as educational material for future medical staff ? students of secondary schools, higher professional schools and colleges focused on health care. It may also be used as study material for improvement of awareness among general nurses working not only in hospitals, but also external nurses from home care agencies at public seminars for general nurses.
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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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The Lifestyle of a Person with a Disability
KOSTLIVÁ, Hana
This thesis, titled "The Lifestyle of a Person with a Disability" deals with the quality of life and aims to map out possible differences in the subjective perception of quality of life of visually impaired individuals and individuals without this disorder. Visual impairment brings many difficulties in various areas of life. The most serious ones include learning about the outside world, manipulating objects, movement in space, but also reduced opportunities for employment, and social isolation. Each person, however, presents the concept of quality of life a different way based on the differences in values and needs that a person recognizes. The theoretical part is concerned with visual impairment terminology, the anatomy and physiology of the organs of sight, and the types of visual impairments. I describe the characteristics of individual groups of visually impaired persons,their opportunities to get a job and I mention the possibilities of using assistive devices. Finally, I mention the quality of life of persons with the impairment mentioned above. In the practical part of the thesis, I tried to find out, using the method of questioning, how people with visual impairment and those without this disorder perceive their quality of life, health and other areas of life. A sub-objective was to compare the quality of life of these two observed groups. With the information obtained from both the visually impaired persons and from persons without visual impairment, I could focus on possible changes in the opinions of these two observed groups and perform a comparative analysis of the data collection. The research was carried out in Blatná, in Strakonice, in České Budějovice, and in Prague. To obtain information, I chose the technique of questionnaires, i.e. a quantitative research. One research set was compiled from 31 respondents with no visual impairment, i.e. 56.0 %, and the other set consisted of 24 respondents with a visual impairment, i.e. 44.0 %. The research results were processed in the graphs. Based on the research, I found that there is no difference between the quality of life of visually impaired people and the quality of life of individuals without this disorder. Satisfaction in specific areas of life, i.e. health, relationships, leisure, social, professional and financial, does not differ between the groups. It was shown that the respondents are most satisfied with leisure time and relationships, while dissatisfied with health and finances.
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Works family for educe children with visual handicap
LOPATOVÁ, Zdeňka
Family plays a very important role in every man{\crq}s life. In family we hawe a haven, we can lay on it all the time and it is a stepping stone into our life. We learn the basics of manners and mutual relations within our family. It is also a pattern for us, how the family relationships should look like. Of course we consider family without any pathological problems. Such a family can offer the right start into the life so that a man becomes an even and self {--} confident personality. I chose this topic for the reason, as I found it interesting for absorbing and elaborating. As mentioned above plays the family an important role in every man{\crq}s life the more if it considers a child which is disadvantaged. The way and grade of handicap plays no role, but the attitude of the family and the closest does. It takes different period of time to each person to cope with this fact, but in my personal opinion, most families can successfully go over it. In this time there are a lot of organizations devoted to taking care of families of visual handicapped children who work as well as with the parents as with the children themselves. Although the access to information can be sufficient for the parents, the offer is not always used by the parents and this happens even though complex and special attitude is needed in these cases. The aim of my work is to make clear the issue of children with a visual handicap education. My hypothesis was, that for an optimal grow up and education of these children is a sufficient source of information and cooperation with the parents with the institutions needed and I also proved it in my qualitative research. For my research I used a questionnaire and a guided dialogue with the parents and handicapped children. I interviewed in total four families, who assisted very well. I can see a practical use of my conclusions mainly in the sphere of people awareness about the problems and hurdles of the families with a handicapped child, further on their education and interests as well as their integration into society.
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