Personal assistance for people with visual disabilities

Diploma thesis titled "Personal assistance for persons with a visual handicap" focuses on visually handicapped persons and specifics of personal assistance provided to visual handicapped persons. Diploma thesis deals with information relating to the eye sight as such, to the eye sight's function and to the most frequent diseases causing a visual handicap. Furthermore, it introduces visually handicapped persons, dissimilarity of their upbringing and education and psychosocial aspects that affects visually handicapped persons' life. My diploma thesis presents ways how visually handicapped persons can compensate their handicap and what opportunities exist in the Czech Republic for them. Moreover, it explains the term of personal assistance, specifics of accompaniment and communication of those persons and it explains how the relationship between a personal assistant and a visually handicapped client should look like. The empiric part of my diploma thesis concerns with a mutual cooperation and building up of mutual trust between personal assistants and visually handicapped clients, thus how the personal assistance provided to visually handicapped persons should work. Keyword Visual handicap, personal assistance, integration, communication, accompaniment, relationshi