Siblings of the children with handicap

The bachelor thesis deals with sibling's relationship between healthy child and handicapped child and the impact of handicap on a healthy sibling. In the theoretical part there is presented the classification of disability, the situation of family with handicapped child and the last chapter of the theoretical part is dedicated to healthy siblings, their needs and the aspects of sibling's relationship where one of the sibling is a child with handicap. The technique of chosen qualitative method was semi structured interviews with seven healthy siblings of children with disability in age of 19 to 32 years old. The aim of the practical part was to find out how was it to grow up with child with handicap from the view of the healthy sibling. What was their parent's attitude like to them and their handicapped sibling(s) and what are the specifics of the sibling's relationship where one of the sibling is handicapped