Diploma thesis titled "Personal assistance for persons with a visual handicap" focuses on visually handicapped persons and specifics of personal assistance provided to visual handicapped persons. Diploma thesis deals with information relating to the eye sight as such, to the eye sight's function and to the most frequent diseases causing a visual handicap. Furthermore, it introduces visually handicapped persons, dissimilarity of their upbringing and education and psychosocial aspects that affects visually handicapped persons' life. My diploma thesis presents ways how visually handicapped persons can compensate their handicap and what opportunities exist in the Czech Republic for them. Moreover, it explains the term of personal assistance, specifics of accompaniment and communication of those persons and it explains how the relationship between a personal assistant and a visually handicapped client should look like. The empiric part of my diploma thesis concerns with a mutual cooperation and building up of mutual trust between personal assistants and visually handicapped clients, thus how the personal assistance provided to visually handicapped persons should work. Keyword Visual handicap, personal assistance, integration, communication, accompaniment, relationship

Diploma thesis named "Geoinformation system for the visually handicapped" deals with design and creation geoinformation system that should serve to visually handicapped people with planing the most appropriate route and their movement in a city. First part of thesis is a brief summary of who are visually handicapped people, their needs, abilities and principles of movement. Further are described barrier-free adaptations for visually handicapped people and existing solutions. Practical output is the design of an algorithm for automatically locating and evaluating critical locations based on OpenStreetMaps solution. Visually handicapped people choose not shortest route, but the safest route for their movement. Key words: Critical Point, Visual Handicap, Shortest Route, Optimization, Routing

Final work on the topic Specific educational needs of visually impaired teachers in the framework of further professional education with a focus on needs and possibilities related with lifetime education of visually impaired teachers in the Czech Republic. The thesis is divided into theoretical and practical part. Theoretical part is focused on disabilited people - people with visual impairment - support, rehabilitation and usage of compensation aids. Furthermore, it maps the social system of services that are grouped together and are helping to people with visual impairment. The key topic is the education system in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. Practical part analyzes possibilities of further professional education of visually impaired pedagogical workers and it aspires for the identification of needs and current offer of this education to be realized. Through the research interview were searched needs and possibilities of the market with another education for specific target group of visual impairment people. KEYWORDS Lifelong learning, continuing vocational education, compensation aids, blind people, educator, professional growth, school, educational needs, visually impaired.

The integration of handicapped children to regular classes has become common throughout the Czech education. The objective of the diploma thesis was to map and objectively point out eventual problems and risks that accompany complete integration o visually impaired children to the society of their health contemporary. This objective has been fulfilled by studying special literature and sources and by a research study performed by quantitative and qualitative methods. The research itself was done in order to find out whether visually impaired pupils of the Pilsner region are being integrated and if so, whether their integration is accompanied with any problems and pitfalls.

The aim of the diploma thesis is to analyze the possibilities of employing visually handicapped people in a library environment in the Czech Republic and to suggest possible library occupations suitable for these people. The thesis is divided into several chapters. After the introduction there follows a general background to this topic which is followed by chapters dealing with vocational training and employment of visually impaired people in libraries. In the following chapter there is presented a questionnaire research which was carried out within selected libraries. The aim of the questionnaire research was to determine the state of employing visually impaired people in libraries in the Czech Republic and to explore future possibilities in this area. In the conclusion of the thesis there are suggested library occupations suitable for visually impaired people.

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Thus, it is important to examine the social interaction of blind children in the school environment -- in particular using direct observation, since this method provides important data to perform a functional evaluation of pro- and noninclusive behaviors that will identify conditions that are both favorable and unfavorable to the process of inclusion. Direct observation was complemented by reports from parents and teachers, as well as self-reports and sociometric evaluations. This study aimed to: (1) Functionally describe the pro- and noninclusive social performances of two blind children in interaction with their peers and teachers in terms of antecedents and consequences; (2) Define, through measuring scales: the social skills repertoire, behavior problems, academic competence, and the sociometric status of included children; (3) Link pro- and noninclusive behaviors to social skills indicators, behavior problems, and sociometric status of children. The study participants were two children, a boy and a girl, both nine years old and diagnosed with congenital blindness. Participants were enrolled in public, regular education schools, and were filmed in the classroom environment during Portuguese classes and free activities suggested by the researcher. The observed performances were described in terms of antecedents, responses and consequences, and the percentage of correlation between the responses and events was identified. The Social Skills Evaluation System (SSRS-BR) was used with parents and teachers, as well as with the children, to obtain information on the children's behaviors. Furthermore, the children's classmates underwent a sociometric evaluation. The analysis of data collected through direct observation of behavior indicates that around 70% of performances emitted in classroom interactions were classified as proinclusive. This information is contradictory when compared to data from SSRS-BR and from sociometric evaluation. In general, the observed children were socially competent in their social interactions at school, which does not guarantee their full inclusion in this environment. / Pesquisas apontam que crianças com deficiência visual podem apresentar isolamento e outras dificuldades de interação social que comprometem o processo de inclusão escolar. O campo teórico-prático das habilidades sociais mostra que estas podem ser caracterizadas como comportamentos pró-inclusivos ou anti-inclusivos e que a frequência de ambos depende das condições interativas de ensino, em geral dispostas pelo professor. A literatura aponta para uma carência de estudos de observação em habilidades sociais e competência social. Desta forma, é importante estudar a interação social das crianças cegas no ambiente escolar, principalmente por meio de observação direta, pois este método provê informações importantes para se efetuar uma avaliação funcional dos comportamentos pró e anti-inclusivos identificando possíveis condições favoráveis ou desfavoráveis ao processo de inclusão. A observação direta foi complementada por dados de relato obtidos com diferentes pessoas (pais, professores), auto-relato e avaliação sociométrica (colegas). Este estudo teve como objetivos: (1) Descrever funcionalmente os desempenhos sociais pró e anti-inclusivos de duas crianças cegas em interação com seus colegas e professores, em termos de seus antecedentes e consequentes; (2) Caracterizar por meio de escalas de medidas, o repertório de habilidades sociais, os problemas de comportamento, a competência acadêmica e o status sociométrico das crianças incluídas; (3) Relacionar os comportamentos pró e anti-inclusivos aos indicadores de habilidades sociais, problemas de comportamento e status sociométrico das crianças. A pesquisa foi realizada com duas crianças, ambas com nove anos de idade (um menino e uma menina), diagnosticadas com cegueira congênita e matriculadas em escolas públicas da rede regular de ensino. Utilizou-se o recurso de filmagem no ambiente da sala de aula (aulas de português e atividade livre proposta pela pesquisadora). Os desempenhos observados foram descritos, em termos de antecedentes, respostas e consequentes, identificando-se a percentagem de correlação entre as respostas e os eventos. Para a avaliação via escalas, foi utilizado o Sistema de Avaliação de Habilidades Sociais (SSRS-BR), obtendo informações sobre os comportamentos das crianças por meio dos pais, professores e auto-relato. Além disso, foi realizada avaliação sociométrica pelos colegas de sala das crianças. A análise dos dados coletados com observação direta do comportamento indica que a maior parte, cerca de 70%, dos desempenhos emitidos em interação na sala de aula foram classificados como pró-inclusivos. Esse dado, quando comparado aos resultados do SSRS-BR e avaliação sociométrica, apresenta contradições, com a avaliação das professoras e concordância com a avaliação pelos pares. De maneira geral, as crianças observadas conseguem ser socialmente competentes nas suas interações sociais na escola, o que não garante a sua total inclusão nesse ambiente.

The 1990 s in Brazil is considered a landmark on the Education for All. Since then, the education of students with special educational needs has been a fashionable topic of educational public policies. These policies reflect the neoliberal logic, overcoming the economic to the social. So, the state has responded minimally to the needs and aspirations of the education sector, so it s possible to consider the existence of an Inclusion in reverse . In other words, it is ensured the right to equal access to education, but there are no effective conditions for the permanence of these students in the teaching and learning process. This fact becomes more significant when the target public are people with disabilities (physical, intellectual, sensory or multiple). Indeed, the school inclusion is a movement that has demanded definition in practical order, both in infrastructural and organizational level. Therefore, we can notice the mismatch between the educational legislation and the real conditions of practicability of the project, given the current landscape of the Brazilian educational system. There are several inconsistencies; for example, the idea that Inclusive Education and Special Education are contradictories. There is consensus, however the need to (re)consider the teacher training, promoting the transformation of traditional educational practices for education to be accessible to all, but also having quality. In this context, this research aims at knowing the continued education of the Geography teacher in Uberlândia- MG in the face of new requirements imposed by public policy in the context of School Inclusion of People with Visual Handicap. The data reveals: considering the twenty four institutions of support/assistance/education in the area of Visual Handicap (10 are municipal schools and 08 are state schools), we can infer that in spite of the difficulties observed, municipal reality is relatively more structured than the state education system, especially when we consider the work of the Specialized Educational Assistance (SEA) in Multifunctional Resource Classrooms. Also, we can say that the main obstacle in the context of inclusive education is due to the existence of crystallized educational and social practices. It still remains the idealized conception of students as subjects whose individuality is not respected and, above all, valued. Therefore, knowledge areas traditionally valued in the mainstream school have been reproduced in the processes of schooling people with disabilities, limiting diverse experiences of teaching and learning. / No Brasil, a década de 1990 é considerada o marco histórico referente à Educação para Todos. Desde então, a escolarização de alunos com necessidades educacionais especiais tem sido um tema em voga das políticas públicas educacionais, as quais, por sua vez refletem a lógica neoliberal, sobrepondo o econômico ao social; assim, o Estado tem respondido minimamente às necessidades e anseios do setor educacional, de modo que se cogita uma inclusão às avessas. Em outras palavras, apesar de assegurado o direito de igualdade de acesso à educação, faltam condições efetivas para que a permanência desses alunos no processo de ensino e aprendizagem também seja uma realidade. Tal fato torna-se mais expressivo quando o público-alvo são as pessoas com deficiência (física, intelectual, sensorial ou múltipla). Com efeito, a inclusão escolar é um movimento que tem demandado definições de ordem prática, tanto em nível infraestrutural quanto organizacional. Logo, percebe-se o descompasso entre o propalado pela legislação educacional e as condições reais de exiquibilidade de tal projeto, tendo em vista o atual panorama do sistema educacional brasileiro. São várias as incongruências como, por exemplo, a ideia equivocada de que Educação Inclusiva e Educação Especial são contraditórias. É consensual, no entanto, a necessidade de se (re)pensar a formação de professores, promovendo a transformação das práticas pedagógicas tradicionais para que a educação, além de acessível a todos, seja também de qualidade. Nesse contexto, a presente pesquisa tem como objetivo principal conhecer a formação continuada do(a) professor(a) de Geografia em Uberlândia-MG frente às novas exigências impostas pelas políticas públicas no contexto da Inclusão Escolar de pessoas com Deficiência Visual. Dentre os resultados revelados, destaca-se: das vinte e quatro instituições de apoio/assistência/ensino na área da Deficiência Visual pesquisadas (das quais 10 são Escolas Municipais e 08 Escolas Estaduais), pode-se inferir que, mesmo com toda as dificuldades observadas, a realidade municipal encontra-se relativamente mais estruturada do que o sistema de ensino estadual, principalmente quando considerado o trabalho realizado pelo Atendimento Educacional Especializado (AEE) nas Salas de Recursos Multifuncionais. Também, pode-se dizer que o principal entrave no contexto da Educação Inclusiva se deve à existência de práticas pedagógicas e sociais cristalizadas, na medida em que ainda perdura a concepção idealizada de aluno como sujeito cuja individualidade não é respeitada e, sobretudo, valorizada. Por conseguinte, as áreas do conhecimento tradicionalmente valorizadas no ensino comum têm sido reproduzidas nos processos de escolarização de pessoas com deficiência, limitando experiências diversificadas de ensino e aprendizagem. / Mestre em Geografia

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