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The paper focuses on the position and role of the teacher's assistant in the educational process. Education requirements for the performance of teaching assistant position and their justification for the nature of performed work and benefits of the teacher's assistant for the learner if they come from the same ethnic background are analysed. The focus will be paid on actual numbers of teaching assistants, and if this number corresponds to the requirements of current practice.

The article aim is to point out the importance of cooperation between parents and school as well as open communication in relation to supporting the successful transition of a child with a disability into the school system. Series of in-depth interviews were conducted with parents of children with disabilities after transition process. Our research findings suggest that the attitude of the school management and its organizational culture were the factors that influenced the creating effective cooperation between school and parents in both a negative and positive ways, and at the same time determined the way of communication. Due to the fact that the parents of children with disabilities perceived their child's transition as one of the areas in which they need support, we consider our results to be significant. Therefore, we consider the transition to be one of the important areas of research.

Summer camp is one of the occasional leisure activities that are very popular with children. It has a long history and many forms. At the present time, we can meet with the organization of summer camps focusing on various areas of activity, but also on a specific group of children. One of the specific groups of children is also children with disabilities. This is a group of children who may have various limitations in the performance of their leisure activities, resulting from their disability. Here, in this contribution, we focused on identifying the specific requirements that arise in the preparation of a summer residential camp for children with disabilities, specifically for children with cardiovascular diseases. Based on interviews with ten respondents who have long-time been organizing of the camp for this specific group, we found that the organization of summer camps need to take into account the health of children, their higher fatigue, safe and barrier-free environment, as well as constant presence of the doctors and paramedics throughout the children's stay in the camp. The theme of the camp also seems to be significant.