Specific speech development of autistic children and development of communication capabilities of autistic children

The objective of the final work is analysis of logopedie intervention in autistic children in the Vysočina region. The work offers an overall view of the care in the region, its possibilities, conditions as well as deficiencies. The whole work is divided into the theoretical and practical part and five chapters. In the first chapter I am dealing with defining the term of autism, terminology, etiology, occurrence and diagnostics. In the second chapter I am summarizing the knowledge related to the problem of communication with autistic children. The information was obtained by studying specialized literature and using practical experience. Problems are analyzed here as well as the basic forms of communication and its development. In the third chapter I am describing the system oflogopedic care of autistic children in the Vysočina region. The thesis further gives an outline of individual facilities that provide the care. I concentrated on special pedagogy centres and the data about clients with autistic spectrum disorders. In the fourth chapter I am presenting the research, its objectives, proposed hypothesis, used methodology, place of investigation and characteristics of the research sample. The investigation itself is described in the fifth chapter where I am analyzing the anamnestic data. In the following..