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Quality of life of people with acquired hearing disability in adulthood
Vondřičková, Věra ; Hádková, Kateřina (advisor) ; Hradilová, Tereza (referee)
This thesis is focuced on the quality of life of people with acquired hearing disability in the age between forty and sixty years. In the theoretical part there are outlined physical, psychic and social characteristics of persons in the age range and then there are defined the elementary concepts concerning hearing impairment, diagnostics, compensation and there is also explained concept of the quality of life. Practical part of the thesis concentrates on a analysis of the qualitative research that the author of this thesis implemented. The aim of this thesis is especially to clarify how do people with the acquired hearing disability rate their quality of life - how do they interpret this construct, which aspects do they include, and how much does the acquired hearing disability influence their subjective quality of life. For that reason interviews with some informants were implemented. The results of the qualitative research shows that the essential effect on the quality of life of the individuals has their satistaction with their family life and their occupation. Informants describes occasional problems with communication that are caused by their acquired hearing disability, however, these problems does not influence the informants' subjective feeling of well being. The analysis of the research...
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Role of a Deaf Assistant in Primary Schools for pupils with Hearing Impairment
Przeczková, Tereza ; Ptáčková, Klára (advisor) ; Hádková, Kateřina (referee)
Thesis dealt with deaf assistants who work in primary school for pupils with hearing impairment. The aim was to find out their benefits for pupils with hearing impairment. The first chapters include introduction to the topic of hearing impairment, cultural minority the Deaf, development and education of students with hearing disabilities, focusing on the personality of the deaf assistant and his contribution in the educational process. Another part of the thesis deals with the research whose objective was to describe the influence of deaf assistant at a primary school for pupils with hearing impairment within the teaching process. The survey was carried out by observation in the classroom, where the deaf assistant worked primarily with the hearing teacher. As is clear from the survey results, the presence of a deaf assistant at a primary school for pupils with hearing impairment is of great importance for the development and education of pupils with hearing impairment in many ways.
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Care for children with a suspicion to a congenital hearing disorder after their discharge from the hospital
POLÍVKOVÁ, Iveta
Hearing is one of the most important human senses. Allows communication in spoken language, so it is an important part of the communication process. Even when a child seemingly passively listens, learns that human speech is a means of communication, learns to understand the individual words, recognizing emotional overtones of speech, to distinguish different types of voice. From this perspective, emphasis is placed on early detection of hearing loss. Not all children are born hearing. Based on the implementation of hearing screening for all newborns, physiological and pathological, thrives as soon as possible to diagnose hearing loss or other problems and thus can be initiated early treatment. Next should also be provided to a child suitable care for the development of its communication. Birth of a disabled child is very hard for parents and often to others. Repeatedly, this problem is seen as a failure in the parental role. First of all, the parents of the child with a hearing loss has to cope with a difficult process with their child's disability. Where it is established permanent hearing loss, it is also a very serious health problem. Axle condition is most successful if it is initiated in the first months of life. This means that neonatal screening for hearing loss shortly after birth has a high potential to improve quality of life and life chances affected. During the identification of the extent and intensity of hearing loss in their child, parents should be empathically and helpfully informed. They should be informed about all the possibilities of raising a child with hearing impairment and the possibilities of compensation hearing disorders and the use of assistive devices. Important role in the whole process plays a combination of individual elements of the system, which the parents and their child acts. In the process should be involved experts and specialists who are able to provide appropriately chosen by parents all the information about the current situation in which they are. In the research part of the thesis, I used qualitative research method, which is designed for a small number of respondents. In preparing the interview I respect the work and the objective comprehensibility issues. The aim is to find out the way and ability to provide information to parents during an examination procedure and subsequent care for children with hearing loss. About the possibilities and the importance of multidisciplinary care for children with hearing loss, which was established on the basis of screening newborns in the hospital. To collect data and information I used semi-structured interview. It was the technique terrain data collection, through which I put deliberately targeted questions to the respondents face to face / face to face /. Everything went after previous arrangement by telephone with each respondent. With the respondent, I made the interview in their chosen environment. Environment that suggested themselves and in which they felt naturally. To select respondents I have chosen a combination of two techniques and that "purpose" / Caravan test / and "snowball" / snowball sampling /. I did data analysis by evaluating of individual interviews with respondent. I compared the processes of individual mothers. I have dealt with the support of mothers in various stages of the process, awareness and relevance of the information for individual mothers. Answers to questions from individual interviews I've been using categorical system and systematic classification categorized into individual charts. Finally, after the analysis of interviews with each respondent, I have come to propose some solutions that could be used in practice.
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CENTER FOR DEAF MOTHERS BY THE INSTITUTE FOR THE CARE OF MOTHER AND CHILD
TOMÁNKOVÁ, Barbora
My Bachelor Thesis is called Centre for deaf mothers attached to the Institution for Mother and Child Care which was created as a unique project five years ago on the basis of negative experience of deaf mothers during their pregnancy and childbirth. The aim of my work was to describe the activity of the Centre for deaf mothers attached to the Institution for Mother and Child Care, care for expectant deaf mothers, methods of communication of medical staff with deaf mothers. Further, my thesis concentrated on the interest of medical staff in sign language classes, possibilities of education in the given issues and work conditions. The important goal of my work was also description of subjective feelings of deaf mothers who gave birth in the given health-care facility. My work is divided into two parts, into a theoretical and a practical part. In the theoretical part I briefly deal with division of hearing defects, communication from the general point of view, forms of communication of the deaf including communication systems, principles of communication with the deaf. In the practical part, I used methods and techniques of a qualitative research. As a technique of field data collection, I used a method of interviewing, and the technique being a semi-controlled interview with medical staff (physicians and midwives) and with deaf mothers who gave birth in the given health-care facility in the period from the formation of the Centre until the end of the year 2008. Results of the qualitative research which this thesis has produced: 1)Medical staff are insufficiently motivated on the part of the employer by attending sign language courses. 2)Medical staff think that every deaf person can read our lips. 3)According to deaf mothers who have given birth in the the Institution for Mother and Child Care (ÚPMD) in the last two years, the approach of the medical staff is the same as in other health-care facilities. 4) Medical staff do not distinguish a type of hearing impairment among deaf clients , and therefore, they choose inappropriate communication .
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