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CISÁRIKOVÁ, Karolína. 2017.Working with users/readers with specific learning disabilities in library with emphasis on dyslexia: methodology of work in cooperation with Prague DYS- center. Prague, 128 p. Diploma thesis. Charles University. Faculty of Arts: Department of Information Studies and Librarianship. Supervisor: PhDr. Hana Landová, Ph.D. The diploma thesis surveys the work of libraries with users diagnosed with dyslexia and in the conclusion delivers not only result analysis but methodological recommendations to strengthen and develop such cooperation as well. The focus of the work is to deliver a compact outline of the information connected with the specific learning disorder and to analyze the way libraries and people diagnosed with dyslexia cooperate in the Czech Republic. The work can be divided into two parts - theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part deals with general information about dyslexia with the focus on its origin, diagnosis and ways of reeducation. It also involves an overview of Czech and foreign experts involved in such area of work and an overview of organizations representing rights of dyslexia diagnosed people on local and international level. The theoretical part also includes examples from foreign experience. The empirical part is dealing with the research in...

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The study focused on the occurrence of dyslexia among the convicted in the Czech Republic. On the ground of plentiful research results from various countries that refer to a connection between dyslexia and criminality, a research was conducted in Czech penitentiary environment (specifically the Horní Slavkov prison). The research sample comprised of 113 respondents aged 22 - 65 in the first round of data collection. All respondents met the research criteria: Czech citizenship, Czech nationality and Czech as a mother tongue. The data were collected via the Raven's standard progressive matrixes, personal questionnaire, interview, assessment battery including tests on specific learning disabilities among adolescents and adults and a rapid naming test. The research results have proven a several times higher occurrence of dyslexia among the sample population than in common population, which is 34 % dyslexic individuals in the sample. The research results are comparable to research results from abroad. On top of that, up to 84 % of the respondents spontaneously demonstrated dyslexic difficulties during the interview. Reading and writing skills in the sample are comparable to those in common population and intelligence is slightly higher than standard. The research hypothesis that there is a connection...

Will specificic failures of learning influence individual´s journey throught his life? In my work I deal with problems of living with dyslexia. How the specific learning difficulties will affect an individual's life. The main aim of my thesis is to examine how specific learning disability affects personal and educational development of the individual. The goals of my work are: to determine approach of the parents to the child with specific learning difficulties, approach of teachers at the primary school, high school or university. Recording of feelings from childhood to the present. Explore possibilities of applying on the job market, comparison with individuals who do not suffer from disorder. Find out how the specific learning difficulties affected individuals. The theoretical part of the thesis deals with the characteristics specific learning difficulties, their causes, manifestations of classification learning difficulties, dyslexia diagnostics, educational diagnosis, dyslexia, its symptoms in adulthood and reeducation of dyslexia. In the practical part I will examine how learning difficulties affect individual lives from the beginning of education to adulthood. The research sample will consist of adults with learning difficulties in anamneses and without anamneses. Basic methods will be questioning and interview. The practical part of my work is based on the theoretical part.

The study focuses on psychosocial aspects of prisoners with dyslexia in the Czech Republic. The target group is compared with respondents from noncriminal population with dyslexia, and respondents from prison and also noncriminal population without dyslexic difficulties. Research sample comprised of 200 respondents (50 respondents per each group) in the age range from 20 to 64 years. Data were collected via Raven's standard progressive matrices, assessment battery on specific learning disabilities, personal history questionnaire, self-efficacy scale and personality questionnaire (SPARO). The results show the following protective aspects in the development of children with dyslexia - higher educational level, better grades in school in subjects such as Foreign language, Mathemathics, Physics and Behavior, lower number of siblings, higher number of close persons and help from them, family cultural capital (level of education of mother and father), higher self-efficacy, a feeling of importance to others, greater level od satisfaction with their life, early diagnosis of hyperactivity and results of personality questionnaire SPARO (mean adjusting variability; and moderate frustration and target directionality). Some aspects were interpreted as neutral, and some factors show no inter-group difference....

The aim of this thesis was to evaluate the level of reading comprehension in children at risk of developing grammar difficulties. The main goal consisted of assessing the performance and children's success in two experimental groups (with impaired speech development and the familial risk of dyslexia) and one control group (individuals with typical speech development) at the Test of Reading Comprehension based on the YARC diagnostic scale (Hulme et al., 2009). Additionally, we also observed the performance of children throughout a longer period of time. Consequently, it enabled us to compare the performance of children in the original test with the results of the Test of Reading and Comprehension by M. Caravolas and J. Volín (2005), which was administered two years later. Further analysis reveal that the individuals with the impaired speech development performed significantly worse than the children with familial risk of dyslexia whose performance was very much on the same level as the ones with typical speech development. Additionally, we found out that the performance of children in terms of comprehension does not change significantly during their development. The results of this study may be beneficial both for specialists and parents who may obtain a better understanding of their children's...

Dans l'enseignement au secondaire au Québec, l'inclusion d'élèves ayant une dyslexie dans les classes ordinaires est obligatoire. Plusieurs travaux tendent à montrer que l'adaptation de l'enseignement est une condition sine qua non à l'efficacité et l'effectivité de l'inclusion scolaire. Pourtant, à la lumière des recherches antérieures, il semble que les adaptations soient peu nombreuses et peu répandues. Neuf enseignants de français ont été interrogés afin de 1) décrire la dyslexie et 2) relever les pratiques déclarées d'adaptation de l'enseignement en contexte d'inclusion d'élèves ayant une dyslexie au deuxième cycle du secondaire. L'analyse des données obtenues lors d'entretiens semi-dirigés démontre que, chez ces enseignants, la définition de la dyslexie demeure parfois floue et nécessite un approfondissement. Par contre, les gestes d'adaptation sont variés et nombreux. Par ailleurs, certains enseignants perçoivent l'inclusion négativement, entre autres parce qu'ils manquent de formation et de soutien pour réussir cette inclusion.

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The aim of this thesis was to evaluate the level of comprehension of czech sentences with a different syntactic complexity in children with specific language impairment (SLI) and children at family risk for dyslexia (experimental groups) compared to typically developing peers (control group). Statistically significant differences were proven both between the SLI group and the family risk group and between the SLI group and control group. The assumed descending tendency of achievement in the test blocks was not substantiated.