The prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and its defining features has been increasingly investigated in genetic syndromes associated with intellectual disability, with syndrome specific profiles reported. The experience of catatonia and other movement disorders in people with ASD has been increasing highlighted within both research and diagnostic guidelines. However, these issues have not typically been investigated alongside other features of ASD within research into genetic syndromes. The first paper in this thesis provides a review of the literature on movement disorders in genetic syndromes associated with ASD, which focuses on the prevalence of reported movement disorders, the methods of assessment used, and the quality of research to date. An empirical study is reported in Paper 2. Within a cohort of individuals with Cornelia de Lange and Fragile X syndromes the prevalence of attenuated behaviour [autistic catatonia] is examined, based on parent/carer report, and the extent to which features of ASD predict later attenuated behaviour is investigated. Paper 3 provides a critical reflection on the first two papers as well as some wider considerations on undertaking research in this area. The results of both the literature review and the empirical study indicated that across a number of genetic syndromes (Angelman syndrome, Cornelia de Lange syndrome, Fragile X syndrome and Rett syndrome) attenuated behaviour [autistic catatonia] and/or movement disorders affect a substantial proportion of individuals. Furthermore, repetitive behaviours, one of the characteristic features of ASD, appear to predict later attenuated behaviour in Cornelia de Lange and Fragile X syndromesThe results presented in this thesis have important implications for the way services support individuals with specific genetic syndromes. Paper 1 confirms the high prevalence of movement problems in Angelman and Rett syndromes, and Paper 2 provides a new insight into movement problems in Cornelia de Lange and Fragile X syndromes. Movement disorders are reported to impact negatively on wellbeing and quality of life in people with ASD, and are likely to have a similar impact on the lives of people with genetic syndromes. Greater awareness and recognition of movement problems in CdLS and FXS is required, and although specialist services may already be aware of some of the above issues, there should be an increased emphasis on ensuring that community services are aware of the needs of individuals with genetic syndromes, including the implications of movement problems for support needs and quality of life.

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The woman has always been an invisible individual behind the act of ’Great men’ in the Roman society. The woman’s gender role has forever been specified where the woman is a submissive, quiet and an unintelligent individual who wants to do everything for her man. Even though this gender role is created by authors that are men and is about how they consider a woman should behave, what about the women’s view on this matter? By means of getting an answer to this question, we can get a fuller perspective and an understanding about the Roman woman and as a woman writer in a patriarchal society. The purpose with this essay will therefore be to give a fuller perspective about the Roman society and its woman writers. In order to fulfill this purpose, I have asked the following questions: How did men react when women published their literary work and is it possible to investigate how the women thought about themselves through analyzing their work. And how was it possible for a woman to publish her texts in a society where women had no rights and a small chance to publish her work for the public? In order to have been able for doing this examination I have delimit myself and investigate three women, Cornelia, Hortensia and Sulpicia. Cornelia wrote letters, Hortensia wrote and delivered a speech and Sulpicia wrote poems. I have used the ancient sources Appian, Nepos, Tibullus to get the quotes of the women’s texts. I have also used other ancient sources like Aelian, Cicero, Ovid, Plutarch, Pliny, Quintilian and Valerius Maximus for other valuable information about the three women and their literature. They contribute with comments about the women and about women’s possibilities to get an education. I have a gender role and feminist view through the entire essay as the main focus is the three roman women writers. I have done this by analyzing the women’s texts and investigated what men thought about them and high educated women generally. And how the society encounters this texts. Through all this we have got a better understanding about how the attitude was towards the Roman woman and how she looked upon herself – and with that a fuller perspective on the Roman woman in general instead of the androcentric view we had before. There are a lot of variables that contribute to whether the woman can publish her work which is status, wealth, her loyalty to Rome and contacts with important people. Through all these men were relative positive about the three women’s texts and the women themselves were relative positive to themselves.

In the theoretical part, this diploma thesis deals with a literary analysis and comparison of books Momo, Timm Thaler, or the Traded Laughter and The Thief Lord. The pieces of work are analysed on the basis of their common features. Such features include the main characters, and the magical motifs which affect real life situations. The partial subjects of observation are film versions of the works. The thesis is concluded by the practical part addressing a didactic adaptation of the novel Momo; including worksheets and other teaching aids designed for pupils of elementary schools and grammar schools. The teaching aids are based on the theory and involve a didactic analysis, methodical analysis and time plans for their utilization in German language classes. KEYWORDS Children's literature, Momo, Michael Ende, Timm Thaler, James Krüss, The Thief Lord, Cornelia Funke, magic elements in literature, The didactics of children's literature.

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The topic of the Diploma thesis is "Necropoleis on the Vatican Hill. The decoration analysis and its parallels in Roman art." The diploma thesis is divided into several parts that are particularly analysed. The first part is focused on the Vatican area layout in ancient world and both ancient and contemporary area layouts are compared. The second part is focused on the analysis of mausoleums along Via Cornelia and their decoration. The thesis tries to find some parallels with the mausoleums in the roman art which proclaim the use of these iconographical materials in other settings and historical backgrounds. The next part describes the necropolis along Via Triumphalis and the most important tombs within the specific sectors. The individual subchapters deal with selected motifs, which meanings intersect the pagan and Christian world. The following part analyzes selected sarcophagi and their decorative motifs. Consequently, both observed contexts are compared. The last part of the thesis provides the dating of several lamps from necropolis along Via Triumphalis. Keywords Vatican, necropolis, Via Cornelia, Via Triumphalis, antiquity, early Christian, roman art, decoration, sarcophagi

Autor: Daniel Kadlec Vedoucí práce: PhDr. Tamara Bučková, Ph.D. Univerzita Karlova v Praze Název práce: K vymezení žánru fantastiky na příkladu románové trilogie Inkoustový svět od Cornelie Funkeové Počet stran: 77 Název: K vymezení žánru fantastiky na příkladu románové trilogie Inkoustový svět od Cornelie Funkeové Abstrakt: Práce se zabývá fantastickou literaturou a na příkladu románové trilogie "Inkoustový svět" od CORNELIE FUNKEOVÉ poukazuje na některá specifika dvoudimenzionálních příběhů. V teoretické části je nejprve na základě rešerše definován pojem fantastická literatura / fantastika a posléze blíže popsány čtyři k ní náležející žánry - fantasy, science fiction, pohádka a fantastická povídka resp. fantastický román. Vlastní analýza trilogie "Inkoustový svět" je zaměřena na pojetí dvoudimenzionality a roli osudu v tomto díle. Předpoklad, že v "Inkoustovém světě" vytváří autorka dvě rovnocenné autonomní roviny světa reality a světa fantasie, se podařilo prokázat, stejně jako premisu výrazné role osudu, jenž lze změnit jen za pomoci vlastností jako jsou láska, přátelství a ochota k sebeobětování. Klíčová slova: fantastická literatura / fantastika; fantasy; dimenze reality vs. dimenze fantasie; Inkoustový svět; Cornelia Funkeová Author: Daniel Kadlec Supervisor: PhDr. Tamara Bučková, Ph.D. Charles...

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A linguagem e a comunicação são processos fundamentais para o desenvolvimento humano. Mas longe de serem processos inatos ou maturacionais são processos sócio-históricos que se desenvolvem ao longo da vida. Dessa forma, quando as crianças chegam à idade escolar trazem com elas uma linguagem e comunicação oral não como produtos acabados, mas como processos sociais e em desenvolvimento Professores de séries iniciais muitas vezes são surpreendidos quando uma criança não fala, ficando sem ação, pois a expectativa deles é trabalhar apenas com a escrita. Eles pressupõem que oralidade já deveria estar desenvolvida em seus alunos. A escola tem papel fundamental nesse processo de alfabetização, mas também no desenvolvimento da linguagem como um todo incluindo as diversas formas de comunicação possíveis, pois, é de suma importância que a escola acolha todas as pessoas sem discriminações ou preconceitos. Esta pesquisa teve como foco principal propor ações mediadoras com uso de recursos e estratégias de CAA para promover o desenvolvimento da comunicação em sujeitos com TGD. As ações mediadoras foram embasadas nos pressupostos da Teoria Sócio-Histórica, focando em estratégias nas quais a interação vise à comunicação com recursos de CAA de baixa e alta tecnologia como foco principal. O presente trabalho estruturou-se como um estudo de caso (multicaso) de dois sujeitos incluídos nas séries iniciais do ensino fundamental na rede publica municipal da grande Porto Alegre. Ambos os sujeitos tem TGD, sendo que um tem diagnóstico de autismo e o outro de Síndrome de Cornélia de Lange (CdLS). Os resultados a serem apresentados mostram que é possível a utilização da CAA no processo do desenvolvimento de sujeitos não oralizados com TGD, pois, de forma geral, percebe-se que no final da pesquisa os sujeitos ampliaram suas formas de comunicação graças ao uso da CAA. Os indícios de intencionalidade de comunicação que emergiram nos sujeitos com TGD, quando utilizadas ações mediadoras com CAA, se ampliaram de forma significativa chegando os sujeitos a tornarem-se agentes intencionais em diversos momentos das interações. / Language and communication are key processes in human development. But far from being innate or maturational processes, they are socio-historical processes that develop throughout life. Thus, when children reach school age they bring with them the language and oral communication not as a finished product, but as a social process in development. Schoolteachers are often surprised when a child does not speak, and do not know what to do, because their expectation is to work only with writing. They assume that orality should have been already developed in their students. The school has a fundamental role in the process of literacy, but also in language development as a whole, including the various forms of possible communication. Therefore, it is essential that the school accepts all persons without discrimination or prejudice. This research aims to propose mediation actions through the use of resources and strategies of AAC to promote the communication development in subjects with PDD. The mediating actions were based on the principles of the Social-Historical Theory, focusing on strategies in which the interaction aimed at communicating with AAC features of low and high technology. This study was structured as a case study (multicase) of two individuals inserted in the initial grades of elementary public school at Porto Alegre. Both subjects have PDD; one was diagnosed with autism and the other with Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS). The results presented show that it is possible to use the AAC in the development process of individuals with PDD and with oral language issues because, in general, at the end of the study subjects increased their forms of communication through the use of AAC. The evidence of intentional communication that emerged in subjects with PDD when using mediation actions with AAC have expanded significantly, reaching the subjects and turning them into intentional agents at different times of the interactions.