Free time of children with special needs in primary school

The aim of this graduation thesis was to find out how pupils with special needs, who are part of a regular educational program with additional support, spend their free time. We wanted to present how they experience and spend their free time, what activities they participate in and how active they are in comparison to their peers in primary school. In the theoretical part of the thesis we defined the concept of free time, we presented the development of children during primary education and the main aspects of education and integration of children with special needs into regular classes of primary school. In the empirical part of the thesis we conducted a survey in which we explored how children that are committed into a regular educational program with additional support spend their free time, the differences in the way they spend it and how involved they are in school and afterschool (extracurricular) activities in comparison with their peers in primary school. The obtained results show that pupils with additional support spend their free time in different and active ways, preferably in the company of their friends. They get involved in school and afterschool (extracurricular) activities. Children with special needs spend their free time in a similar way to their peers