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Communication and Integration of People with Disabilities

Summary

The aim of this subject is to define specifics of communication environment, as people with disabilities are concern, categorize them, explain the rules of communication, evaluate approaches to integration of this group to the labour market and society and assess options as it comes to organization of working activities in relation to the labour market.
1.Development of communication and its theory in relation to the people with disabilities.
2.Categorization of people with disabilities – determination of the basic terms, general bases, fundamental legislative regulations, characteristics of people with disabilities, services system in the Czech Republic.
3.Social rehabilitation of the visually impaired – visual defects and their functional consequences, communication specifics, compensation aids and supportive means, effect on a personality.
4.The rules of communication of the hearing impaired – hearing defects and their functional consequences, communication specifics, barriers in environment, compensation aids and supportive means, assisting services, impact on a personality.
5.Approach towards the physical disability – physical defects and their functional consequences, communication specifics, barriers in environment, compensation aids and supportive means, assisting services, effect on a personality.
6.Specific learning disabilities, impaired communicative ability and chronic somatic disease – individual impairments and their functional consequences, communication specifics, barriers in environment, compensation aids and supportive means, assisting services, impact on a personality.
7.Labour market and employing the people with disabilities, determination and legislative frame, working rehabilitation, support when employing such people as the part of active employment policy of the Czech Republic, investment incentives, consulting, employers and people with disabilities, the rights and obligations of the employers and cooperation with the Labour Offices, statistics of such people in relation to the labour market.
8.Software systems and application for people with disabilities – IT technologies, websites versus people with disabilities, assisting technologies, mobile technologies.
9.Attitudes and prejudices.

Literature

ADAMS, R., B. REISS and D. SERLIN. Keywords for Disability Studies. New York: New York University Press, 2015. 288 p. ISBN 978-1-4798-3952-0 .
MEAGER, Nigel and Darcy HILL. The Labour Market Participation and Employment of Disabled People in the UK. Working paper 1. Brighton: Institute for employment studies, 2005. December 2005. 37 p. ISBN: 9 781 85184 3 80 0.
https://www.employment-studies.co.uk/system/files/resources/files/wp1.pdf

Eurostat: Employment of disabled people. Statistical analysis of the 2011 Labour Force Survey ad hoc module. 2015 edition. 143p. ISBN 978-92-79-40179-4 . https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/3888793/6802087/KS-TC-14-007-EN-N.pdf/5c364add-6670-4ac9-87c7-9b8838473a7b
Disability and employment: a social model study of the employment experiences of disabled people in Great Britain, with a focus on mental illness. Economic Report Series 2015. London, Trades Union Congress, 2015. 83p. https://www.tuc.org.uk/sites/default/files/DisabilityandEmploymentReport.pdf

Advised literature

ADAMS, R., B. REISS and D. SERLIN. Keywords for Disability Studies. New York: New York University Press, 2015. 288 p. ISBN 978-1-4798-3952-0 .


Language of instruction čeština
Code 116-0437
Abbreviation KOMI
Course title Communication and Integration of People with Disabilities
Coordinating department Department of Marketing and Business
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Lenka Kauerová, CSc.