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Animal Assisted Activities and Animal Assisted Therapy with a Dog (Canine Therapy) in Special Pedagogy
BRÁZDOVÁ, Pavla
This bachelor thesis is focused on canistherapy and dog-assisted activities and therapies, specifically in the field of special pedagogy. The aim of this work is to map the possibilities and limits of dog-assisted activities and therapies in educational facilities from the point of view of special pedagogues. Through the research questions it was discovered how dog-assisted activities and therapies in educational facilities took place from the point of view of special pedagogues and what their experience with these activities and therapies were. The thesis is divided into two parts theoretical and practical. In the theoretical part, readers are informed about the present state in this field. It consists of three sections. In the first section, fundamental terms of canistherapy are defined. It deals with its historical development, its methods and forms, and with the specification of a canistherapeutic team. The second section is focused on special pedagogy, its division and types of facilities. The third section connects canistherapy with special pedagogy. It focuses on disabled children as on canistherapy clients. The practical part is formed by the research. The qualitative research method the interviewing method was used in the research. The research group was composed of special pedagogues or educators from special schools or educational facilities in South Bohemia. The respondents were interviewed in a semi-structured interview. It was structured on the basis of the research questions of the bachelor thesis and targets set in advance. The research shows that canistherapeutic methods AAA and AAT are used in special schools and educational facilities, usually in a visiting form, both group and individual. The canistherapeutic experience of special pedagogues and educators is positive. The benefits of canistherapy are diversification of education, children stimulation, relaxation, improved motor activity and communication skills, and improved self-confidence. The disadvantage of canistherapy is a small number of canistherapeutic teams.
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Integration of children with special needs into libraries
Navrátilová, Michaela ; Vášová, Lidmila (advisor) ; Součková, Veronika (referee)
(in English) The thesis deals with integration of children with special needs into libraries. It is precisely meant visually disabled, hearing impaired, physically and mentally handicapped children and children with specific learning disability as well. Integration of disabled people from general point of view is paid attention into the first part. The exact types of disability as well as their classification and specialties or chosen communication principles are presented here. Next, this thesis outlines some possibilities how to integrate those children into libraries and which types of services and programs should be designed and offered by libraries but the main target is to introduce the working methods with disabled children. There is a detail presentation of the integration project "Ruku v ruce" (Hand in Hand) in the thesis, which is realized in Jiří Mahen Library in Brno. The current state of librarian work with children with specific needs is outlined based on the realized survey. The questionnaires were sent to the selected libraries in South-Moravian Region. One chapter is quite deeply focused on games for disabled children and it significantly includes as the relaxing as group games which developing every single abilities, like memory, mind, speech, attention [Author's abstract].
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The process of parents coping with birth of a child with severe disability
KORNFELDOVÁ, Vendula
A child begins to create first relationships within its family, especially if it is a nuclear family. These relationships tend to deepen over time. The child forms relationships towards its parents or siblings. Even sibling relationships are extremely important in shaping the child's personality and its further development. If the child is born with a severe disability, it poses a great burden and responsibility to the parents. It causes a lot of worries because the family needs to deal with the birth of such a severely disabled child and try to accept it in the family. This thesis is divided into two parts theoretical and practical. The first chapter of the theoretical part focuses on a family, functions of a family and on families that take care of disabled children. The second chapter describes individual types of severe disabilities. The third chapter deals with the ways a family reacts when a severely disabled child is born. This chapter therefore discusses individual stages of coping. The practical part was carried out using a qualitative research method. The research took place in the Příbram District. Information and data was obtained by a semi-structured interview with the children's parents. Since it is not necessary to have a lot of respondents when conducting a qualitative research, I believe that even a small number of respondents I worked with during my research is sufficient and appropriately complements my thesis. The main aim of the thesis was to determine in what way the parents coped when a severely disabled child was born. For the purposes of the interview, I formulated individual questions that were vital for the main research question and objective of the thesis. The research results confirm that not every parent can entirely cope with the fact that he or she has a severely disabled child. This is shown by the results of the individual interviews and also by the conducted research. Among other things, the research also proved that most parents have not been or still are not sufficiently informed about the reason why their child was born disabled. This thesis could be beneficial for parents whose child was born severely disabled. Such parents would be able to learn about families that suffer the same (or even worse) fate. The thesis could help them to share their feelings and find strength as well as hope for the future.
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Integration of disabled children for special-interest education at schools
SUCHÁ, Kateřina
``Integration of Handicapped Children at Educational Institutions for Special Interest Training{\crqq} is the title of my thesis and it deals with the importance of participation of handicapped children in leisure activities, the current status and possibilities of incorporating of handicapped children into leisure activities. I wanted to find out the factors which influence the integration of handicapped children at educational institutions for the training of special interests, detect obstacles which hinder from integration of handicapped children at educational institutions for the training of special interests, and last but not least, to evaluate the interest of handicapped children, as well as their legitimate representatives, in their integration at educational institutions for the training of special interests.
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Music Therapy in Special Education
KAŠPAROVÁ, Julie
The thesis is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part is concerned with the evolution of the music therapy in the world from the beginning to its contemporary concept and application. It deals with influence, importance and functions of music in human life and tries to explain the usage of the music therapy with childern with mental, physical and combined disability in the Czech republic. The thesis describes the therapeutical function of music and summarizes different types and methods applied in the musictherapeutical practice. The practical part contains the description of the Arpida children{\crq}s center and the characteristics of childern the project was realized with. Finally the methodical description of the project in which different musictherapeutical activities were used in the education of childern with disability as a means of their comprehensive rehabilitation is mentioned.
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New trend´s in children´s organization "Pionýr"
JANEČKOVÁ, Jana
The aim of my bachelor work was to map the integration of disabled children into the Pionyr activities. There were defined two hypotheses. The first one expects, that Pionyr started with integration of disabled not until the year 1989. The second one supposes, that the group guides and leaders are obliging to adapt the activities and work with children in such a way, which can be possible also for disabled children. The first hypothesis has not been confirmed and the second one has. This research has confirmed that it is being co-operated with disabled children in Pionyr organisation. The group guides work with these children and are trying to suit the activities so the disabled and handicapped children can be actively joined to the others. According to statements of almost all respondents it is right to join the disabled children into the children{\crq}s activities. They can see there the enrichment of the work, learning of mutual tolerance and communication. They see Pionyr as an open organisation to all children.
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