Formative Influence of Literary Statemant of a Handicapped Person ( Reader's experience as a source of empathy)

Bachelor thesis describes the proces of dealing with a teenage girl with her physical disability, which takes place within her family and larger social environment. The theorical part is divided into twelve chapters. The first subchapter deals with the social norm as the criterion that defines persons with disabilities. In the second sub-chapter phenomenon of disability combines with its linguistic designation. The third chapter presents historical vertical classification approaches to persons with disabilities. The fourth subchapter describes the situation of persons with disabilities before brea?king year in 1989 and the fifth subchapter after year 1989. The sixth subchapter summa?rizes key points Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The seventh section is a content notion of a person with disabilities. The eighth subchapter is dedica?ted to people with physical disability. The ninth subchapter applies to the task of hel?ping proffesions in relation to persons with disabilities. The tenth subchapter focuses on social work with persons with disabilities and specifies the concept of comprehensive rehabilitation and the role of social work as a tool for inclusion of people with disabili-ties. The eleventh subchapter focuses on social work with families with a child with disabilities, being characterized by their specificity, life situation and social functioning and paradigmas social work in working with them. The last twelve subchapter, which reflects the social systém of the Czech Republic in relation to children with disabilities is concerned with its pillars, cash benefits, identification cards for people with disabili?ties and social services twending in this target group. The empirical part is based on qualitative research, answers to research questions by looking for personal case studies and data gathering analysis technique of sideaffect themes of the book " Pozorovatelka", co-author is now a young woman who was born with a medical diagnosis of cerebral palsy, with form of spastic quadriparesis. The main objective is to watch by her sight in common, everyday situations in which shows her way of coping with disabilities whose literary treatment entails a for-mative influence on readers. Apartial objective is to evaluate the value of the book as source of information about the possibilities of social work when working with families of children with disa-bilities. The research group consists of a 16-year old girl with disabilities, who is the main heroine of randomly selected novel for adult readers of the catalog of Ji hočeská vědec-ká knihovna in České Budějovice. The data analysis was chosen by penetration depth into the text which is close to the literary proces. The answer of the research question no. 1 How is developer the proces of internal coping with a person with disabilities in the confrontation with how man receives the outside world? It was said it deals with an individual proces influenced by primarily the period when physical disabilities, self-concept persons with disabilities, their family background and the opportunity to live autonomous life. The answer of the research question no 2 What is information value of the book "Po-zorovatelka" in terms of social work with families of children with disabilities? It brou-ght the result that low and tributary to legislation before validation Act. no. 108/2006 Coll., on social services. The Bachelor thesis can serve as a source of empathy for specific ways of meeting the basic needs of people with disabilities as well as an invaluable perspective on physical disability mediated by a person who lives with it