VZTAHY SPOLUZÁKU K DYSLEKTICKÉMU VRSTEVNÍKOVI

Dyslexia is a specific defect of reading, which belongs to the category of language and speech defects. It may have also further symptoms, which may be subjectively and socially disadvantageous, and in its sum total or interaction they may increase the risk of school and social failures. The aim of the present study was finding out the opinion of children and adolescents on the problems that dyslexia brings to common lives of pupils, and surveying their experience with the conduct of teachers and parents towards dyslexies. An adequate opinion on the problems of dyslexic classmates is stabilised at the end of school attendance. The tendency to interpret their learning problems as a consequence of insufficient motivation is continuous. The attitude of Czech school children towards dyslexies is not very critical and adverse. They consider them to be quite nice individuals who, compared to the others, do not show any substantial difference. They realise that teachers give preferential treatment to dyslexies, but in the course of adolescence the way of interpretation of such behaviour changes: adolescents understand it as necessary differentiation of the approach towards pupils with different dispositions. In a group of peers, the sole reading defect, unless it is connected with further problems, does not represent a big social disadvantage.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]