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Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in counseling services for the hearing impaired
Kudlová, Nina ; Hradilová, Tereza (advisor) ; Hádková, Kateřina (referee)
This diploma thesis maps the issue of counseling services for the hearing impaired during the covid-19 pandemic. It uses a dual view of this situation, both from the point of view of people with hearing impairments and from the point of view of the staff of these counseling facilities, thus achieving a comprehensive view of the issue. To achieve the set research goals, a qualitative method of research survey using the technique of semi-structured interviews was chosen. The research survey was attended by 6 informants with hearing impairments and 3 employees from various counseling facilities, who had to deal with this extraordinary situation. In conclusion, it can be stated that the counseling facilities are coping with this unusual situation quite well.
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Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in counseling services for the hearing impaired
Kudlová, Nina ; Hradilová, Tereza (advisor) ; Hádková, Kateřina (referee)
This diploma thesis maps the issue of counseling services for the hearing impaired during the covid-19 pandemic. It uses a dual view of this situation, both from the point of view of people with hearing impairments and from the point of view of the staff of these counseling facilities, thus achieving a comprehensive view of the issue. To achieve the set research goals, a qualitative method of research survey using the technique of semi-structured interviews was chosen. The research survey was attended by 6 informants with hearing impairments and 3 employees from various counseling facilities, who had to deal with this extraordinary situation. In conclusion, it can be stated that the counseling facilities are coping with this unusual situation quite well.
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A communication of a rescue worker with the selected groups of patients
VÍTKOVÁ, Michaela
The key topic of this bachelor thesis is an option to call via a distress call, which would be suitable preferably for speech-disabled or deaf people. During my training at the operation center of the South Bohemian Emergency Medical Service, I have observed on more than one occasion that callers are under a lot of stress, even though most of them possess the ability to hear and speak. However, deaf, hard of hearing or speech impaired callers might seem to be in a lot more difficult position. In the theoretical part, the definition of the call center as a whole is carried out, including its tasks and functions. A division of distress calls is included, kinds of dispatch groups and an indication of dispatches. The complex capture of issue of speech-disabled people follows definition of basic terms, division and means of their communication. The similar structure can be found in the next chapter, dealing with deaf or hard of hearing people. In the thesis, there are mentioned rules of communication with both groups of disabilities. This is one of the basic pillars of succesful communication with them. Practical part is formed with a qualitative research of half-structured dialogues. 7 randomly chosen operators of Pilsen district and 7 of Budweis district participated in the research. The aim is to monitor possible procedures of communication with the people with speech or hearing disability and an overview of possible solutions to these complicated distress calls. The research shows, that a phone call is not the only way how to reach a distress line. It has also been proven that although both operational centers are ready for a possibility of accepting other forms of distress calls than classic phonecalls, both speech disabled and hearing disabled people hardly ever use them. The results of all calls are only tentative and they are dependant on the experience gained by a particular operator. The purpose of this work is to use it as an option for further study material for the work of a distress call center operator, which is included in the curriculum plan of paramedics.
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Teaching English of Deaf and Hard-of-hearing University Students
Doležalová, Marie ; Janáková, Daniela (advisor) ; Píšová, Michaela (referee) ; Machová, Pavla (referee)
This dissertation titled Teaching English to Deaf and Hard-of-hearing University Students aims to portray a picture of the situation of teaching English to university students, more specifically of those studying at Charles University in Prague. The work is divided into two main parts. The first part brings general insight, also from linguistic perspective, into language competences and language acquisition by the hearing impaired. It describes variables and possible variables affecting spoken language acquisition by this minority. It gives basic overview of different levels of hearing loss on the grouds of medicine assessment of hearing loss. The dissertiation stresses out the neccessity of educating these students with respect to linguistic research and findings. Moreover, it emphasizes the needs to interweave linguistics and pedagogy and benefits of linguistics research and methods such as error analysis and contrastive analysis for enhancement of language productive skills of hearing impaired students. The second part of the dissertation is devoted to the research of English language teaching to hearing impaired students at Charles University in Prague. The work summarizes the findings of five-year long research carried out at the Language Resource Centre, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in...
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Evaluation of postural stability among deaf adults
Palasová, Ivana ; Pavlů, Dagmar (advisor) ; Pánek, David (referee)
vi Abstract Title: Evaluation of postural stability among deaf adults Objectives: The purpose of this diploma thesis was to compare the postural stability between the deaf and the normal hearing adults, and to find out if the statistically significant difference in measured parameters does exist. Methods: 102 subjects at the age of 20-45 years participated in this study. The experimental group consisted of 35 deaf adult subjects with congenital or early childhood deafness. The control group has been made by 67 normal hearing adult subjects. The postural stability was objectively evaluated by Footscan, the pressure measuring plate. Nine tests were passed, duration of each test was 30 seconds. The total travelled way (TTW) expressing the total path the centre of acting pressure travelled during the test and the Romberg ratio, which is the ratio of TTW values under the condition of closed and open eyes, were selected as indicators of postural stability. T-test was used to assess the statistical significance of the differences between the group of deaf adults and normal hearing group. To estimate the influence of individual characteristics of the subjects (evaluating the data from the questionnaires) to their postural stability, the ordinary least squares estimator was used. Results: The experimental group was...
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MABC-2 test battery analysis of primary school children with hearing impairment
Tesařová, Kateřina ; Vařeková, Jitka (advisor) ; Prokešová, Eva (referee)
Title: MABC-2 test battery analysis of primary school children with hearing impairment Objectives: The objective of this work consisted in assessing motor skills in children from the primary school degree at elementary school Holečkova for children with hearing impairment using the assessment battery MABC- 2 (Movement Assessment Battery for Children - Second Edition). Achieved results were compared to standard population of British children. The secondary objective consisted in assessing the relation between the results from using the assessment battery and reported participation in regular movement activities. Methods: The assessment of the motor activity in children with hearing impairment was performed by using the assessment battery MABC-2 (Henderson et al., 2007). The method of comparison between the results from assessed and standard children were used in this work. It was revealed by a non- standard questionnaire whether the children do sports, in which way and where. Descriptive statistical methods in the form of graphical analyses were used to process the results. Results: Children with hearing impairment from 6 to 14 years of age were showing significant difficulties in abilities of catching and aiming on target in comparison to the standard population. Despite our expectation the...
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The helping articulation signs - Past and Present
Bašková, Ludmila ; Hudáková, Andrea (advisor) ; Okrouhlíková, Lenka (referee)
This bachelor thesis applies to issues of helping articulation signs, which belong to phonemic system. For better notion how the helping articulation signs work are they given into opposition with other phonemic systems, like Cued Speech and Hand-Mund System. The helping articulation signs often occur with finger alphabet so in this thesis is a mention of this graphic system in opposition with helping articulation signs. Thereafter is a practical section of the thesis which is dedicated to a field research. The target of the research is to provide information about existence of the helping articulation signs at schools for students with a hearing impairment, about ways of working with them, about their contemporary forms and about their capturing in educational programs of single schools. At the end of this work comes to a summary of found information and their application to accessible information from literature sources.
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Stumbling blocks for hard of hearing people living in a normally hearing population
Hradilová, Tereza ; Hádková, Kateřina (advisor) ; Roučková, Jarmila (referee)
Summary: The bachelor thesis deals with the life problems of hearing impaired people in normally hearing population. The paper describes general characteristics of individual hearing afflictions, the specifics related to the time when the impairment occurred, the social position of the hearing impaired person in the society and the basic principles and differentiations while communicating with such a person. The thesis further describes the specifics of communication systems - primarily concentrated on spoken language, Czech sign language and signed Czech. One chapter deals with specific social position of the hearing impaired people in their own community. The purpose of this thesis is to clarify the present situation of the hearing disabled population in the Czech Republic and to stress what could be further improved in their everyday life situation - beginning with their education, seeking suitable employment and solving their common problems. The practical part talks about individual personal needs and the everyday life pitfalls of the hearing impaired people. Key definitions: Hearing impairment Communication systems Hearing impaired Minority
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