The contribution focuses on changes in performance motivation (hereinafter referred to as
VM) in young people with a hearing handicap during adolescence using a specific movement project. As part of the methodology of the work, a basic empirical procedure was chosen through a pedagogical experiment. thanks to a special movement project that consisted of the basics of self-defense. The standardized Aspiration Test (Bakalář, 1987) was used as part of the methodology for determining the level of performance motivation. An intervention exercise program was created using the method of analysis and synthesis of the researched data, and the evaluation of the obtained results was carried out using basic statistical methods.
The established hypothesis that this program would increase the level of VM in an experimental group of young people with hearing impairment was confirmed. The research confirmed the assumption, which no one has scientifically verified so far, that the basics of self-defense have a significant influence on the development of this motivation in a selected group of young people with hearing impairment.