The inclusion of the child with a cochlear implant in the preschool mainstream education

This bachelor thesis deals with the problem of inclusion, concretely focused on a child with a cochlear implant in a kindergarten of a mainstream education. The target of this thesis is to make a theoretical basis of children with a cochlear implant problematic related to their education and on this basis make a case study of a child with a cochlear implant in a kindergarten of a mainstream education in an evaluation accent of an education process. The thesis is devided into two parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part is in its first chapter focused on an area of hearing impairment, defines the basic concepts and describes the specifics of children with a cochlear implant. The second chapter contains the basic terms and knowledges of a cochlear implant. The third and also the last chapter of a theoretical part deals with preschool education in a relation to the hearing impairment. The practical part focuses on a description of a development of the boy in all areas with a bigger focus on communicative competention and a process of preschool education. Also points to the separate support measures and their usage by his integration to the mainstream education. For the filling of this targets was being applied a research which took the form of observation, halfstructurated dialogues and document analysis. Due to entirety complexity the dialogues with the parents and the kindergarten teachers and anamnestic data has been detailed. By the research investigation it has been found out that the choice of a child placement to the mainstream education doesn´t have to be the suitable variant because every child is unique and has its own needs and limits. Through the detail analysis has been found out that the inclusion is very individual matter conditioned by many factors. Due to the relation to this mentioned boy with a cochlear implant there are these: a rehabilitation success, the level of communication skills, the correct choice of communicative system, the impact of hearing impairment to the separate parts of the development ant the last but not the least the cooperation of the parents and the preschool facility