Cooperation of the speech therapist with family of children suffering from communication disability

This dissertation is engaged in cooperation of the speech therapist and the family of a child suffering from a communication disability, especially it is focused on educational activities for parents of children thus affected. The work is divided into four chapters. In the first three chapters I define basic terminology, structure and forms of logopedics care in the Czech Republic, I analyze available foreign supporting programmes for parents of children with communication disabilities and also I describe activities of various citizen-action public groups contracted on logopaedics and else.The fourth chapter has a practical focus, its firts part is dealing with analysis of a via qusetionnaire survey aimed at educational activities for parents. The sekond part of the last chapter features my own experiment-to create a supporting programme for parents of children with a specific language impairment. Creating of this supporting porgramme is the main aim of my dissertation work. KEY WORDS: cooperation of the speech therapist with the family, logopedics care, supporting programme for parents, specific language impairmen