The work begins with an introduction to literature for young people and the classic fairy tales. This is followed by an overview of the life of Svetlana Makarovič and her book Svetlanine pravljice: Svetlana's Fairy Tales (2008). The following chapter defines children with special needs within the meaning of the Act on the Care of Children with Special Needs (2011).
In the theoretical part of the thesis, the categories of children with special needs are presented based on the Criteria for Defining the Nature and Degree of Deficits, Barriers or Disorders in Children with Special Needs (2015).
In the empirical part of the thesis, I conduct a literary analysis of the motif of people with special needs to examine how this motif is portrayed in selected works from the anthology Svetlanine pravljice: Svetlana's Fairy Tales (2008). Nine works are analysed in detail, one for each group of people with special needs. The most important literary characters are categorised according to Marjana Kobe’s (1999) theory of the classic contemporary fairy tale. In addition, based on Drago Žagar (2012), I assign a specific need to each main character and give my interpretation.
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