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Browsing Research Articles (Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC)) by Title
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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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(Elsevier, 2018-05)BACKGROUND : In South Africa, many persons in need of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) come from multilingual backgrounds. There is as yet a limited evidence base (locally and internationally) for the ...
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(Frontiers Research Foundation, 2021-12-03)The purpose of this research was to explore the relationship between university students’ perceptions of the overall quality of instruction (PQI) they experienced since COVID-19 and their academic well-being. This relationship ...
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Access to healthcare for persons with disabilities in Eswatini : a triadic exploration of barriers (Pretoria University Law Press, 2021-03)Eswatini ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and its Optional Protocol in 2012, subsequently developing the National Disability Policy. Regardless of this ratification ...
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(AOSIS, 2024-07)BACKGROUND: Individuals with communication disabilities encounter obstacles in attaining equal access to justice compared to others. Despite experiencing widespread violence and abuse, they come across as challenges in ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2018-03-08)BACKGROUND : South African speech-language therapists have identified the need for culturally valid and sensitive assessment tools that can accommodate multiple languages and cover a reasonable age range. The Mullen ...
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(Routledge, 2018)Student engagement is a prerequisite for successful learning. Due to the tremendous change in the use of information and communication technologies, the nature of this engagement has had to adapt to fit a hybrid approach ...
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(Sage, 2016-06)This study aimed to describe the perceptions of Afrikaans-speaking parents regarding the human rights, as defined by the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), of their children, aged between 8.0 and ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2023-06-07)BACKGROUND : There is limited knowledge regarding the perceived participation of children with long-term health conditions in everyday activities. Children may have perceptions that differ from those of their primary ...
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(Elsevier, 2020-09)BACKGROUND : Participation of children with ID it is argued must be understood in relation to the fit with the environment. Since caregivers are a vital factor within the close environment of a child with intellectual ...
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(Sage, 2024-09)In 2012, Eswatini ratified the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), and in 2013 developed the national disability policy reform documents to implement the CRPD across different ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2024)Participation is a fundamental human right, and being able to communicate is an essential component of participation in various life situations, such as at school, with peers, and in the community. Augmentative and alternative ...
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(Routledge, 2012-06)This study investigated the application of the self-generation effect to enhance the recognition and retention of Blissymbols in persons with severe aphasia. A 2 × 2 × 3 factorial design of two treatment types (self-generation ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2017-04-26)BACKGROUND : Understanding how the cognitive, emotional and behavioural components of sibling attitudes interact with one another at various stages of a sibling’s lifespan will allow clinicians to provide better support ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2025)This qualitative study aimed to describe speech-language pathologists’ (SLPs’) perspectives on augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) use for people with post-stroke aphasia focusing on: (a) current AAC practice, ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2017)Speech-language therapists (SLTs) have direct contact with a wide variety of individuals who require augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and they are therefore considered to have a pri-mary role in the assessment, ...
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(Education Association of South Africa, 2024-08)Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies benefit learners with complex communication needs (CCN) by allowing them to participate, interact and learn. AAC is realised in the South African Education policy; ...
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(Wiley, 2016-11)BACKGROUND : Besides the right to freedom, human rights can be seen as a basic requirement also for the maintenance of human dignity and the opportunity to thrive – particularly in the case of children with disabilities. ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2021-06-22)BACKGROUND : Unemployment rates for persons with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are high. This is despite the call to action by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with ...
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(AOSIS, 2021-03)BACKGROUND: Research has shown that all children and adolescents have the right to participate in their everyday life. However, little is known about what impacts the participation of children and adolescents with ...
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