Domestic Science fulfils a most important role for mentally-handicapped children. Thanks to Domestic Science, children{\crq}s motor activity, speech, thinking, sensitivity, imagination and creativity improves considerably. It can help them to gain individual independence and increases the possibility of future employment. The goal of this study is to evaluate the conditions necessary for the provision of the Domestic Science in schools for mentally-handicapped children. In order to achieve this, a series of interviews has been undertaken with school directors as well as questionnaires with Domestic Science teachers. Analysis of school equipment for Domestic Science as well as course contents for the subject has taken place, resulting in a positive reaction from those interviewed.

There exist various oinions in relation to the mentally handicapped people in the society. It is necessary to become aware of that the handicapped people have the same needs and rights as the others because everybody is an original and irreproducible personality. If we want to think about the quality of the life, we can speak about the lifequality of an individual person or of a groupe of persons or perhaps about the lifequality of mentally handicapped people. The theoretical part of the degree work deals with the lifequality in general characterizes mentally handicapped people, thei needs and rights. In the practical part, the subjective evaluation of the lifequality by the clients in the establishment Social services Česká is ascertained. The aim of the degree work was to find out how the medium {--} seriously mentally handicapped people perceive the lifequality and satisfaction in their life. The research was effectuated in the form of semi-structured discussion. Further necessary information was obtained on the basis of secondary analysis of documents and by means of observation. The main research question was answerd on the basis of inermediate questions. The first intermediate question described how the needs of the clients are satisfied in the establishment. It was apparent from the research that the clients perceive the satisfaction of their needs positively. Unfortunately, the need of love is not satisfied for the most respondents and that due to the unstable family background. Teh second reserch question was concentrated on ascertainment how the establishment influences the lifequality of the clients. It is evident from the research that the establishment influences the lifequality of respondents positively and that thanks to mobilizing activities and to the efforts enabling these people to live a normal life to the greatest possible extent. The third intermedite question investigated the impact of the family on the clients. Due to the fact that the most repomdents come to see the family environment only occasionally or not at all, the answer to this question is negative. The lifequality of a great deal of respondents is not influenced by the family positively. In spite of this unpleasant fact the main research question reading {\clq}qHow the clients of the estabishment Social services Česká in Jindřichův Hradec perceive the quality of their life`` can be answered positively. Although the clients of the establishment have to face disadvantages because of their handicap, they consider the quality of their life to be a good one.

Este trabalho, de natureza qualitativa, discute a função das classes especiais para deficientes mentais em nossa sociedade tendo em vista seus aspectos social e histórico, numa visão crítica de inclusão escolar. A inclusão escolar é defendida como forma de garantia de igualdade ao deficiente mental e, as classes especiais, como empecilho a isso. A pesquisa, apoiada em questões como ideologia, inclusão marginal, construção e desconstrução de conceitos, bem como, na opinião de professores do ensino fundamental da rede pública do município de Osasco, demonstra que as classes especiais para deficientes mentais exercem uma função definida em nossa sociedade. Por isso, seu fechamento, ausente de uma análise que leve à conscientização de tal função, produzirá outros mecanismos. A classe especial para deficientes mentais justifica a exclusão e, por isso, tem papel definido na sociedade de classes em que vivemos. As entrevistas com os professores que atuam em classes especial e comum demonstram seu conceito de inclusão, classe especial e deficiente. Há um sentimento romântico que cerca um certo discurso inclusivo em que, aceitar o deficiente depende, apenas, de boa vontade. Isso gera deturpações no que diz respeito tanto ao real entendimento da questão como a possíveis mudanças. Com base em autores com posições críticas, a dissertação constituiu a tentativa de entender a construção de conceitos na sociedade e, conseqüentemente, na escola, como normalidade e igualdade, a fim de compreender o radical de determinadas atitudes referentes ao aluno deficiente. A pesquisa teórica, aliada às entrevistas semiestruturadas com professores, constituiu maneira de perceber como determinados padrões foram e são produzidos e reproduzidos pela e na escola. / This qualitative paper investigates the role of special classrooms for mentally handicapped individuals in our society. We consider both social and historical aspects in a critical analysis based upon the process of inclusion at schools. This is frequently viewed as a means of ensuring equality between the mentally handicapped and non-mentally handicapped learners, being the special classrooms seen as barriers to it. The research based not only on issues such as ideology, marginal inclusion, forming concepts and destroying them, but also on opinions expressed by elementary public school instructors in the city of Osasco demonstrates that special classrooms for the mentally handicapped play a clear role in our society. Thus, its closure lacking thoughtful consciousness of such a role will produce other mechanisms. Classrooms for mentally handicapped people justify the exclusion; therefore, their role is clearly defined in our segmented society. The interviews with the teachers, who work in both special and regular classrooms, show their concepts of inclusion, special classrooms and of handicapped learners. There is a romantic feeling surrounding a certain inclusion speech in that to accept handicapped students depends exclusively on goodwill. It causes misconceptions on the factual meaning of the issue and possible changes. By studying authors showing critical approaches, the dissertation consisted of a try to understand how concepts such as normality and equality are formed in the society and consequently in schools in order to comprehend the origin of certain attitudes towards disabled students. Theoretical research associated with semistructured interviews with teachers has been an attempt to understand how certain standards were and are produced and reproduced in and by schools.

Thesis (M. Cur.) -- University of Limpopo, 2015. / Background:The experiences of families living with the mentally handicapped childrenwho attended the Bana Ba Thari School in the Polokwane Municipality of the Limpopo Province were never evaluated and, therefore, the experiences of families werenot known. Theaim:The aim of this study wasto describe the experiences of the families caring for the mentally handicapped children who attended theBana Ba Thari School in thePolokwane Municipality of theLimpopo Province, South Africa. Study methodology:A qualitative phenomenological research approach was used.Data was collected from 23 families who cared for their mentally handicapped children by conductingsemi-structured face-to-face interviews. Data wasaudio recorded and field notes were written down. Data was analysed using Tech’s open coding method forqualitative research.After the Medunsa Research and Ethics Committee had given ethic clearance for this study to be conducted, the Department of Education also gave permission for the study to be conducted.After the Medunsa Research and Ethics Committee had given ethic clearance for this study to be conducted, the Department of Education also gave permission for the study to be conducted.Ethical considerations and measures to ensure trustworthiness were observedand adhered to while conducting the study. The results:The results showed that the parents lackedadequateknowledge about mentally handicapped children which ledto poor interaction.The study also revealed a gap of knowledge from various professions likedoctors andeducators which ledto poor intervention and delay of therapy for the mentally handicapped children. The study also revealed the psychological impact on the parents and siblings.Parents worriedabout the future of their mentally handicapped children, which led to their denial andanxiety while the siblings became depressed. Parents also experienced a physiological impact, socio-economic problems, lack of resources at school like material for rehabilitation, and lack of transport to take their children to school every day. In addition,it was found that most of the parents and siblings didnot get continuing psychological support. vi Conclusion and recommendations:It is recommended that government and agencies should provide assessment and therapy facilities for mentally handicapped children and their parents. It is also recommended that professionals like doctors and educatorsstill need to undergoin-service training with regard to mentally handicapped learners to enable them to make proper decisions or to execute accurate interventions.

La tesi s'estructura en dos grans apartats: per un costat, el Marc Teòric en el que realitzem els estudis que ens permeten delimitar la problemàtica de les persones amb disminució psíquica i fonamentar teòricament els criteris orientadors d'estratègies dirigides a potenciar la seva transició a l'edat adulta i vida activa. A partir de l'anàlisi realitzada al Marc Teòric de la tesi s'elabora una proposta d'intervenció consistent en el disseny d'un programa destinat a potenciar les habilitats perceptivo-motrius. / The thesis is structured in two big sections: the first is the Theoretical Frame, where we obtain information that allow us to delimit the problems that are carried out of the mentally handicapped people and to found out the guiding criteria of strategies directed to promote their transition to the adult age and active life.From the analysis carried out in the Theoretical Frame, we have elaborated a proposal of intervention consisting in the design of a program destined to promote the perceptive-motor abilities.

Thesis (M.D.S.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Hong Kong, 1989. / Also available in print.

The thesis tries to contribute to spread the consciousness about the people who had learning disabilities and who lived during the normalization. In our contemporary history this group was marginalized. The aim of this thesis is to try if and how the environment and living conditions of these people in the institutional care changed during the years 1969 - 1992. The research was realised by the oral history and worked with five testimonies of women who live in different parts of the Czech Republic and who worked with people with learning disabilities before 1989 and also in the nineties. The other sources which I used were publications devoted to special education. These publications contain the short process of evolution of care of people with learning disabilities. I used the publications which were published during the years 1969 - 1992 and also those which were published after 1989. The basic area of topics in the thesis includes the daily routine in the institutional care, the education (institutional and also non-institutional), employment, financial matters and the leisure time of people with learning disabilities. The others are: the view of the majority society to these people and how the special teachers were educated. The final chapter reflects the changes occurred after November 1989....

Problems dealing with individual and group integration of mentally handicapped pupils in terms of fulfilment the compulsory school attendance are very often discussed. In the diploma work I have concentrated on a research of fulfilment the basic conditions of integration and problems that parents and educationalists solve during integration of mentally handicapped pupils into elementary schools. Workers from specially-pedagogical centres for mentally handicapped people, educationalists providing education for integrated pupils and these integrated pupils'parents form together the experimental complex. Following methods and techniques of collecting data were used to reach the aim - the methods of standardized interviews, the methods of inquiry-form researchs and as a complementary method two matter studies. My diploma work could by inspiration for mentally handicapped pupils'parents, common educationalists, special educationalists and authorities of state administration.

Please read the abstract in the section 07back, of this document / Thesis (DEd)--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Orthopaedic Surgery / unrestricted