e-Pedagogium, 2024 (vol. 24), issue 3

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e-Pedagogium 2024, 24(3)  

Positive Behaviour Support in the school environment

Radka Hájková, Justýna Dočkalová, Irena Plevová, Lucie Glaser

e-Pedagogium 2024, 24(3):7-22 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2024.011  

The article focuses on explaining the concept of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS/PBIS), which is relatively new in our region. In the process of implementing this approach in Czech schools, we have designed a course whose structure is described in the article. We particularly emphasize the principles of using proactive strategies that can lead to lasting changes in undesirable student behaviour. By the end of the text, readers should be able to describe the connections between PBS and Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA), summarize the basic behavioural principles applicable in education to eliminate challenging behaviour, describe various functions of...

The Influence of Gender and Residence on Articulation Development in Slovak Children: A Pilot Study

Dana Buntová

e-Pedagogium 2024, 24(3):23-36 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2024.013  

Speech sound disorders can develop into dyslexia and negatively impact a child's quality of life. Reliable norm-referenced tests are essential for early diagnosis and timely intervention, contingent on the composition of the normative sample. In a pilot study, we evaluated 100 intact Slovak monolingual children aged 5 to 6 using the new ARTES articulation test. The objective of this study was to examine the potential influence of place of residence and gender on the development of pronunciation skills in typically developing Slovak children. Our findings indicate that speech intelligibility, the percentage of correct consonants, vowels, and the percentage...