Adolescents with specific learning disabilities - perceptions of specific learning disabilities in the environment of secondary schools

The thesis focuses on adolescents with specific learning disabilities in the milieu of secondary schools. It is divided into a theoretical part and an empirical part. The first part introduces a topic of specific learning disabilities in the developmental stage of adolescence. It first describes the most relevant aspects of adolescent development. The attention is then paid to typical manifestations of specific learning disabilities in adolescence, and also to secondary symptoms usually connected with this diagnosis. Finally, the so called positive aspects of specific learning disabilities are described, which is a rather unknown approach to specific learning disabilities in the Czech Republic. The empirical part aims to map coping strategies of adolescents with specific learning disabilities within the school environment. It attempts to identify manifestations of specific learning disabilities and it differentiates them into a typical school problems and everyday life problems. The data lead to a description of various approaches and strategies which adolescents with specific learning disabilities use to cope with demands of their study. The data were first analyzed in separated clusters and then combined and interpreted via more in-depth analysis. The empirical part eventually discusses the..