Význam prípravných ročníkov v edukácii žiakov s ľahkým mentálnym postihnutím
Importance of Preparatory Grades in Education of Pupils with Mild Intellectual Disability

Summary/Abstract: Preparatory grades are considered by experts as a tool for effectiveness of education of specific groups of pupils, particularly pupils with intellectual disabilities from socially disadvantage backgrounds in the area of motoric, social skills, communication,and self-occupation. With acquiring key competences in the preparatory grade, there rises an assumptions of their school success in the first grade of primary education. Nowadays the number of classrooms of preparatory grades is on the decrease. Summarisation,comparison, and analysis of theoretical knowledge on the examined issue has shown its importance from the experts’ point of view. In the paper the authors were interested, in what areas and dimension the preparatory grade graduation has any impact on school success of pupils with intellectual disabilities. In the research dimension, the authors present findings from the comparison of levels of examined knowledge and skills through screening assessment among a group of pupils with mild intellectual disabilities in special elementary schools in Prešov and Košice region, who graduated preparatory grade, and a group of pupils with mild intellectual disabilities, who did not attend the preparatory grade. Aim of the research was to examine the level of knowledge and skills in selected areas in pupils with intellectual disabilities after graduating the preparatory grade and,subsequently, compare findings with the level of knowledge and skills in the same areas in pupils with mild intellectual disabilities, who did not graduate the preparatory grade. Research findings shown that the pupils with mild intellectual disabilities, who attended the preparatory grade, scored higher in all examined areas, particularly in the area of graphmotoric and phonemic awareness than the pupils with mild intellectual disabilities, who did not attend the preparatory grade.

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