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Browsing Research Articles (Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC)) by Issue Date
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(Elsevier, 2006)A culturally appropriate test, The Test of Ability To Explain for Zulu-speaking Children (TATE-ZC), was developed to measure verbal problem solving skills of rural, Zulu-speaking, primary school children. Principles of ...
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(OTASA: Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa, 2007)Since 1994 disability organisations, like other organisations in the country, have had to face significant transformation. While the disability sector achieved major success in including issues surrounding recognition of ...
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(Blackwell, 2007-03)Background: The aim of this study was to describe maternal self-efficacy beliefs within the parenting domain and maternal ratings of pre-school children's language abilities, where the child has a communication disability. ...
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(Blackwell, 2007-07)BACKGROUND : Activity-based intervention has been defined as a child-directed, transactional approach that uses logically occurring antecedents and consequences to develop functional and generative skills by embedding ...
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(OTASA: Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa, 2007-11)The aim of this paper is to explore the social networks inventory as a tool for interventionists. The bio-ecological and developmental niche models form the theoretical framework within which examples from the field of ...
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(OTASA: Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa, 2007-11)Assessing students with moderate to severe disabilities, and especially those with little or no functional speech (LNFS), often necessitates accommodation of assessment material. These accommodations need to be equivalent ...
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(OTASA: Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa, 2007-11)All interventions have one aspect in common – the pursuit of positive change, ie, moving towards a particular intervention goal. In intervention both sudden changes and long-term changes are necessary – sudden changes act ...
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(OTASA: Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa, 2007-11)This article deals with problem solving as an intervention strategy for families of children with illnesses and disabilities. Problem solving is considered as a process that includes problem orientation and problem-solving ...
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The concepts of participation, engagement and flow : a matter of creating optimal play experiences (OTASA: Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa, 2007-11)Positive functioning relates to the ability to live a good and healthy life, but for children with special needs, this might be compromised and therefore factors related to positive functioning should be explored. As their ...
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(OTASA: Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa, 2007-11)This article presents a description of a training programme designed to increase teachers’ knowledge and skill regarding the use of aided language stimulation (ALS) in the inclusive classroom. The development of the two-phase ...
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(OTASA: Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa, 2007-11)This article describes and compares intervention for children in need of special support in South Africa and Sweden. This is achieved by developing a theoretical understanding of current intervention approaches and describing ...
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(OTASA: Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa, 2007-11)No abstract available
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(Springer, 2008)The low literacy levels achieved by deaf children are of ongoing concern for educators and researchers alike. This study aims to further enhance understanding of issues that might impact on children’s literacy learning ...
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(Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2008)Children with spelling difficulties are limited in their participation in all written school activities. We aimed to investigate the influence of word-prediction as a tool on spelling accuracy and typing speed. To this ...
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(OTASA: Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa, 2009-12)The South African occupational therapy profession is not immune to professional migration of colleagues to richer countries due to various external pull factors and internal push factors. This paper aims to identify and ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2009-12)Although the importance of iconicity in the learning of symbols has been widely acknowledged, there have been few systematic investigations into the influence of culture on the ratings of symbol iconicity. The purposes ...
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(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2010-03)The early reading process can be viewed as triadic, encompassing the child, the parents and the environment. We examine the impact of each of these three components on children’s participation in home reading activities ...
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(OTASA: Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa, 2011-03)This paper aims to describe how psycho-motor play advances motor competence and body perception, by helping to shape a positive self-image and activate movement. The participants were 4-7 year-old children with developmental ...
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(2011-06)People who use AAC know that silence is not always golden. Persons with disability, and in particular those with complex communication needs, have a heightened risk of becoming the victim of crime, abuse and neglect. In ...
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(BioMed Central, 2011-10-07)BACKGROUND: Joint rehabilitation goals are an important component for effective teamwork in the rehabilitation field. The activities and participation domain of the ICF provides a common language for professionals ...
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