We usually view a family as small social group, with its basic characteristics to be mutual co-operation of all of its individual members. They are inter-connected by a variety of relations. As each member of a family is an individual and original personality, even the created family makes an individual, original and unrepeatable social organism. This applies to each different family {--} even to families with a handicapped child. This is to say, coexistence in one or another family has the same basic characteristics. When talking of life quality of people, we may have in mind different extent of perception of a man. It is possible to talk about life quality of an individual man as well as life quality of several people, e.g. life quality in a family. The aim of the graduation thesis was to find out the life quality of families living with an individual with slight mental disorder (IQ 50-60). To find out their difference from families without any mentally handicapped individual. All of that using the PedsQL questionnaire, which is a sufficient criterion for the problems fixation. Information needed for the graduation thesis processing was obtained on the basis of specialised material studies. Quantity research was performed to map the families life quality. Data collection was performed using the questioning method {--} the questionnaire method. The questionnaire designed by James Walter Varni Ph.D. was distributed to two groups {--} families with a slightly mentally handicapped individual (IQ 50-69) and families with children, without any mentally handicapped individual. The questionnaire contained 8 areas, in which the individual families could encounter any problem. The aim of the graduation thesis was fulfilled and the research confirmed the hypothesis that life quality of a family with slightly mentally handicapped individual with his/her intelligence quotient in the range of 50-60 points, differs from life quality of a family without any mentally handicapped individual. Some questions of the questionnaire provably demonstrated lower quality of life in families living with a slightly mentally handicapped individual.

The purpose of this Graduation Theses is to ascertain the status of a slightly handicapped child in a primary school class collective. It concerns namely children with a diagnosis of slight cerebral dysfunction or specific learning disability. The theoretic part deals with the nature of a primary school class, particularly from a developmental and sociological point of view. Further, it considers the problems of learning disability and behaviour disorder, which applies for the pupils I have been concerned with in my Graduation Theses, and also the questions of school integration. The practical part comprises the research itself and processes the data obtained. The investigation took place in the Grünwaldova elementary school in České Budějovice. It was executed using the sociometrical method, monitoring, observation, and a questionnaire designed for teachers. Individual parts of the research using the sociometrical method are introduced in the appendices.