Bibliographic identification Author's first name and surname: Bc. Radim Žídek Title of the master thesis: Perception of verticality in patiens with developmental coordination disorder Department: Department of Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine, 2nd faculty of medicine, Charles University and FN Motol Supervisor: PhDr. Ondřej Čakrt, Ph.D. The year of presentation: 2017 Annotation: Developmental coordination disorder is typical for poor motor learning and motor coordination that cannot be related to any neurological or mental disease. The exact reason of it stays still unknown. There are theories that say that dysfunctional collaboration of afferent systems causes developmental coordination disorder. Thanks to afferent systems a human organism is able to perceive different modalities. One of the modalities is a perception of verticality. In theoretical part of this thesis we summarized information about developmental coordination disorder and postural and balance control. In experimental part we tested 35 pupils of primary school (age 13-15). Using MABC-2 we classified the pupils into children with and without predispositions for developmental coordination disorder. Then we tested their ability of perceiving subjective visual and subjective haptic verticality. According to statistical evaluation there is no...

Cette recherche porte sur la compréhension du fonctionnement psychique (affectif et cognitif) des enfants porteurs d’une dyspraxie développementale. La première partie consiste à définir la dyspraxie développementale dans les classifications et dans l’histoire. Ensuite quinze enfants (une fille et quatorze garçons) âgés de 5 ans 8 mois à 10 ans 11 mois ont été vus en bilan psychologique approfondi (Rorschach, TAT, UDN II, Dessin de la famille, figure complexe de Rey, R-CMAS et MDI-C) interprété dans une dimension psychanalytique. Deux hypothèses ont été mises à l’épreuve : La dyspraxie développementale s’inscrit dans une pathologie limite de l’enfant comme définie par la CFTMEA et la dyspraxie développementale entraîne un trouble des contenants de pensée lié à un trouble de la contenance corporelle. Les résultats permettent de discriminer trois groupes d’enfants objectivant ainsi des figures de la dyspraxie. Le groupe 1 composé de quatre enfants présente une pré-psychose et un retard d’organisation du raisonnement. Le groupe 2 composé de sept enfants est typique de la dyspraxie développementale. Les enfants présentent une pathologie limite de l’enfant avec dysharmonie d’évolution et dysharmonie cognitive. Enfin le groupe 3 comprend quatre enfants. Ils présentent un fonctionnement proche du groupe 2 mais leur économie psychique tend vers la névrose. Ils présentent un investissement de la cognition. La recherche se termine par des études de cas. / This research is about the comprehension of the psychological functioning (emotional and cognitive) of the children who are carriers of a dyspraxia. The 1st part consists in defining the dyspraxia in the classifications and History. Then 15 children (1 girl and 14 boys) aged from 5 years 8 months to 10 years 11 months have been seen for an extensive psychological exam (Rorschach, TAT, UDN II, Family Drawing, Rey-Osterrieth complex figure, R-CMAS, MDI-C interpreted in a psychoanalytical dimension. Two hypothesis have been put to the test : the dyspraxia is incorporated within a “Limit Pathology of the Child” as defined by the CFTMEA and the dyspraxia leads to a disorder of the thought container linked to a disorder of the plain body feeling. The results allow to discriminate 3 groups of children thus objectifying the dyspraxia figures. Group 1, composed of 4 children, presents a pre-psychosis and a retardness in the cognition organization. Group 2, composed of 7 children, is typical of the dyspraxia ; The children present a “Limit pathology of the child” with an evolution disharmony and a cognitive disharmony. Finally, group 3 is composed of 4 children. They present a functioning close to group 2 but their psychological economy tends to neurosis. They present a cognition investment. The research ends with case studies.

This work deals with the topic of communication skills of pupils with specific learning disabilities. It is divided into theoretical and practical part and consists of four chapters. In the first chapter, the author deals with specific learning disabilities, attention is paid mainly to four types of specific learning disabilities, namely dyslexia, dysgraphia, dysortography and dyspraxia. The second chapter belongs to the language levels. The third chapter is devoted to the issues of language acquisition by a child. The fourth chapter describes the research itself, which was carried out for this thesis. The research is of a qualitative nature and its main goal is to analyze the communication skills of pupils with specific learning disabilities with a focus on language levels. The research sample consisted of six primary school pupils with specific learning disabilities such as dyslexia, dysgraphia and dysortography. The children are in the third and fourth years. The research was carried out in the Vysočina region. Various research methods were used to obtain data, including the use of questionnaires, questions related to the certain text, the test of the ability to create antonyms, words of superiors and subordinate, the test of auditory discrimination between Wepman, Matějček, an unstructured...

This diploma thesis focuses on two conditions that typically occure in childhood - poor posture and developmental coordination disorder. The theoretical part summarizes recent information on these diseases focusing on their etiology, prevalence, prognosis, methods of assessment, diagnosis and treatment. The main aim of the practical part was to evaluate the motor control of treated children with poor posture in comparison with children from the general population. The research group (13 children, mean age 9.85 years) and control group (16 children, mean age 9.94 years) were assessed using Movement Assessment Battery for Children 2. We found no significant difference between motor skills of treated children with poor posture and motor skills of children representing the general population. We also analysed whether treated children with poor posture reported less physical activity compared with the general population. By gathering data from questionnaires (completed by parents of tested children), no statistically significant difference was found. The difference was neither detected in test of posture and postural functions, where we investigated how poor posture of treated children can influence the results of the test. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The diploma thesis deals with pupils' possibilities of partial functions development in the first class of elementary school. The theoretical part defines the basic terms and it introduces the definitions in the field of specific dysfunctions of learning. It also deals with a possible diagnostics of the specific dysfunctions. The thesis describes crucial partial functions in the relation to school skills acquirement and it presents the partial function theory as one of the causes in difficulties in reading and writing acquirement. The practical part analyses the results of the diagnostics which was realized in the first grade at elementary school. This diagnostics was aimed to chosen partial functions and the results were taken before and after the exercises aimed to partial functions development.

Targets: The aim of the diploma thesis was to create the set of tests on proprioception processing with focus on kinesthesia, stereognosis, body image, vision-excluded space orientation and proprioceptive shape imagination acuity. The tests are supposed to be easy for practical utilization and enabling objective results gaining. In future, they could become a part of adults' dyspraxy testing. Further we intended to investigate possible relations between particular items of testing battery MABC-2 (Movement Assessment Battery for Children 2nd ) and the set of tests on proprioception. Participants: 35 healthy members took place in testing, 11 boys and 24 girls (13,1-15,7). Method: Participants first underwent testing according to the testing battery MABC-2 for the age group 11 - 16 years (AB 3) for screening into categories of development coordination disorder. Subsequently the testing of proprioceptive modality was performed, targeted on kinesthesia, stereognosis, body image, vision-excluded space orientation and on proprioceptive imagination of a shape. Data Analysis: Data analysis has been performed in the statistical environment R-project (version 3.4.0). Following statistic tools have been utilized: the Pearson's correlation coefficient and two- tailed unpaired t-test. Results: The relation of...

Title: Evaluation of motor skills level in children of the primary education of selected Prague elementary schools Objectives: The main aim of the study was to evaluate current level of motor skills of primary education children of selected Prague elementary schools using standardized assessment battery MABC-2. A partial goal of the study was to compare the level achieved in the MABC-2 test with the data acquired through the questionnaire survey regarding physical activities of participating responders. (n = 134). Methods: A total number of 134 responders (60 girls and 74 boys) aged from 7 to 12 years from two selected Prague elementary schools participated in the research. The level of motor skills of all participants was examined using a standardized assessment battery MABC- 2. The testing was carried out in the form of field research during physical education lessons at selected schools. A questionnaire designed specifically for the purpose of this study, subsequently completed by legal representatives of the responders, was used for the orientation examination of the physical behaviour of the participants. The data from the questionnaire survey was subsequently compared with the level achieved in the MABC-2 test. MS Excel 2010 was used to interpret the results and to process the data...

Title: Evaluation of the motoric docility level of adolescents with specific learning and behavior disorders. Author: Bc. Ladislav Kaňka Advisor: prof. Ing. Václav Bunc, CSc. Aim of the thesis: The aim of this study is to evaluate the motoric docility level of pupils with specific learning a behavior disorders through the Iowa-Brace test and to compare the results with data from pupils without these disorders. Method: Testing motoric abilities of 13-14 year old (adolescents) with specific learning a behavior disorders through the Iowa-Brace test and later comparing to pupils who do not have any specific learning and behavior disorders. The data was processed with the program IBM SPSS Statistics 24 and then evaluated. Results: Specific learning and behavior disorders have a significant negative impact on the motoric docility level of an individual, which has been proved by poorer performance of these pupils in a test studying the motoric docility level of probands (Iowa-Brace test). The difference in the overall performance in the Iowa-Brace test depends more on the specific learning and behavior disorders than on the sex of the individual. The biggest difference between pupils with and without specific learning and behavior disorders was noticed during the exercise "Turek" (this exercise assesses...

The goal of my diploma thesis is introduce one of alternative direction {--} music therapy, to outline the sphere of specific learning and behavior disorders, and also to give a guide, how to apply components of music therapy during the work with children with these disorders. The thesis consists of two parts {--} a theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part focuses on defining key terms, such as music therapy, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dysortographia, dyscalculia, dyspinxia, dysmusia, dyspraxia. In my work I aim to clarify the question of ADHD and try to point out the relation of particular learning and behavior disorders. The practical part includes twenty activities that were made firstly according to a methodical manual written by M. Beníčková and Z. Vilímek, who use the Czech method of music therapy {--} Music of body, and secondly on the base of casuistry of two boys attending special practical school. Each activitiy should develop particular skills, comprises tools, motivation, its own description and analysis coming out of a practical accomplishment. The method of observing was used for the evaluation.

The thesis deals with the problematic of specific behavior disorders. Despite the age some children keep suffering from complications which negatively influence their studies in the form of insufficient reading techniques, in the lower ability of text understanding and consequently disability to study the read material. The goal of the thesis is to suggest a number of recommendations how to help those children in the phrame of their integration to a common basic schoul course. Separate steps (form and frequency of correction, contents of corrections) are described in the individual educational plan.