Leisure Time Activities of Mentally Challenged and Disabled Adults

Possible leisure time activities for handicapped and multihandicapped adults Experiencing leisure time is an integral part of modern human being, including handicapped person. Therefore, it´s important to spend it as meaningfully as possible. My bachelor thesis focuses on possible leisure time activities for handicapped and multihandicapped adults compared to such activities in healthy individuals. The main goal was to identify free time activities of persons with disabilities. The thesis is divided in to two parts a theoretical one and practical one. A theoretical one is concerned with basic characteristics of characteristics of health, mental and combined disability. Terminology, etiology and classification for each type are described. Furthermore, a definition of leisure time, its types and possible activities are elaborated on. The end of a theoretical part explains potential problems with experiencing leisure time for handicapped persons. A practical part takes a larger portion of my thesis. Qualitative research approach was chosen to gather data using semi-structured interviews. These were analyzed via clustering method. Two groups were interviewed, the main one consisting of 10 handicapped persons and a control one with 10 people without disabilities. Most interviewed took place in Home of sv. Anežka in Týn nad Vltavou, Sheltered housing Duha in Písek, which fall under control of Home for disabled people Zběšičky. Few additional interviews took place in Písek and Týn nad Vltavou