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In the Czech Republic, there is a trend nowadays in supporting families caring for a child vulnerable due to disability. A network of services offering support to these families is growing. Causes of this fact can be found at three different levels, on the child and family side, but also at the support system. Concept of a life quality, and it´s various dimensions for this target group, have been neglected until recently. Present time, however, introduces significant changes in an approach to this issue and the concept of life quality in general is getting to the fore within the interagency scope and the social policy. In this particular case it presents a complex construct comprising many subunits. We can look at them from a variety of perspectives and operate with them in many different ways. This paper solves a view at this concept unusually at the background of the specific activities of Early Care Centre in Pardubice. For the paper processing qualitative research strategies have been used – description of organization´s material and quantitative survey (evaluation questionnaire for the year 2012). Particular aim of this paper is to describe activities of Early Care Centre in Pardubice which affect the concept of life quality of families with child (early age) vulnerable due to disability. Results analysis of the evaluation survey which is aimed to identify some of quality indicators of service provided in 2012 also at the Centre for Early Intervention in Pardubice and comparison with the material of the National Centre of social services transformation support - A system of services for children and young people with disabilities and their families (Bačáková, 2013). Results evaluate the life quality concept for families with children in early age with the endangered development due to disability from the position of the family, support and assistance provider and support and assistance evaluator. The conclusion summarizes the problem formulation, problem analysis and discussion.

The National Plan for the Creation of Equal Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities 2010-2014 points to, among the other things, the lack of a systematic solution to the conditions for the tertiary education of students with disabilities. Although numerous activities have been in place and operations at the University of Pardubice, this problems is still an issue. Therefore, this contribution paper focuses on the systemic model of socio-educational policies aimed to support students with special educational needs.

The authors deal with the issue of interdisciplinary cooperation in the care of the "vulnerable child" early age and his family. Justify the starting point of departure for processing „Methodology of cooperation midwife and advisor to early intervention, in the endangered child and his family.

The author - the Chairman of the Association for Early Care and the Head of the Centre for Early Care - describes in the article historical connections and the current state of social prevention - early care services provided according to Law. No. 108/2006 of the Digest concerning social services as amended only in the Czech Republic. The article also focuses on the quality evaluation of these services. The evaluation of their quality is presented based on individual needs of clients of the Centre for Early Care in Pardubice.

The paper describes and analyses the process of community planning and its phases: general information (The Ministry os Social Affairs); information applied in the process of community planning of social services in Pardubice and specific issues of the „working group“.

The Association for Early Intervention in Pardubice – Early Intervention Centre in Pardubice (EIC) is a registered provider of services for the prevention of social exclusion in early intervention in the Pardubice region. The work of professional counsellors in early intervention is based on the knowledge of professional standards which fully comply with the Standards of the Quality of Social Services. These are introduced into “good practice” when implementing services for the prevention of social exclusion in early intervention. Feedback for evaluation of theoretical and practical fulfilment of the standards by the provider of services for the prevention of social exclusion in early intervention in the EIC is provided by three different sources: 1) by EIC management, 2) by supervisors (evaluators) which are members of the Association of Workers in Early Intervention, 3) adherence to Law no. 108/2006 of the Digest (social services) through monitoring by inspections for quality social services according to article 97.

This thesis has investigative and empirical character. It combines an attempt to create a theoretical system (a new subdiscipline of special pedagogy) with an attempt to gain arguments by means of empirical investigation. It begins with theoretical part which presents historical and pedagogical overview of the issue by defining reference field, target groups, tasks, basic terminology and the whole system of special pedagogy of an early age. An early age care as a theoretical subsystem included in comprehensive and integrative special pedagogy in the system of social and rehabilitation, and special pedagogical services forms a specific part of my thesis. The theoretical part has a character of metatheory because at an early age the beginnings of education, care and support are given according to the theory of comprehensive special pedagogy (Jesenský 2000) or integrative special pedagogy (Vítková 2003). By this the possibility of application into the pedagogy of individual physical and mental handicaps and the possibility of education development in other age groups are open. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The present paper thematizes the transition from childhood to adulthood of people with multiple disability. The theoretical part discusses following subthemes: principles applied in the current attitudes to people with multiple disability seen in the historical context of the treatment of multiple and learning disability; the current status of these people in the Czech Republic; the ransition from childhood to adulthood and transition programmes as tools of the passage. The practical part, based on qualitative research, maps ways parent and professional staff envisage the future life of children suffering from serious multiple disability, as well as the experience of parent and staff with the transition process. Key words: multiple disability, human rights, Normalization Principle, supported decision- making, person-centred planning, adulthood, transition programmes