In the theoretical part of the thesis are written the definitions of preschool institution and its programs – in which the children can be included, the definitions of children with special needs – their abilities and deficiencies and the definition of inclusion and why it is important to practice it.
In the empirical part, a survey was presented in which 90 preschool teachers from Gorenjska participated. The aim of the thesis was to analyse the attitudes of preschool teachers to the inclusion of different groups of children with special needs in the preschool period.
The data were obtained using a scale of attitudes that contained five main chapters – attitude of preschool teachers to inclusion, attitude of preschool teachers to children with special needs, attitude towards the motor abilities of children with special needs, attitude towards social abilities of children with special needs and attitude towards the cognitive abilities of children with special needs.
The results showed that the view on cognitive, social and motor abilities of children differ, but the differences were not statistically significant – the result was the same with the attitudes of preschool teachers towards the children with special needs.
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