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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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(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 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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(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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(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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(Wiley, 2022-04)Person-centred care, with its central focus on the patient in partnership with healthcare practitioners, is considered to be the contemporary gold standard of care. This type of care implies effective communication from ...
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(Tukkievaria, 2005-08-12)Two books were released by CAAC: "Augmentative and alternative communication and severe disabilities, beyond poverty" and "Just the same on the inside, understanding diversity and supporting inclusion in circle time".
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(EASA, 2014-05)In South Africa, up to 70% of children of school-going age with disabilities are out of school. Of those who do attend, most are still in separate, "special" schools for learners with disabilities. This situation prevails ...
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(MDPI, 2020-09)In a low-and middle-income country (LMIC) such as South Africa, not much is known about how children with intellectual disabilities (ID) participate in everyday activities, as no studies to date have compared their ...
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(Wiley, 2021-10)PURPOSE : For many children, needle procedures are fearful events that are often painful. The first step in symptom management is to assess the child's pain and fear, and the next step is to use coping strategies to provide ...
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(Wiley, 2023-11)BACKGROUND : An individual's ability to make autonomous decisions is fundamental to self-determination. The presence of neurological pathology, for example, aphasia, and its associated difficulties with language and/or ...
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(Health Systems Trust, 2020-06)The term ‘communication vulnerability’ covers long-term communication disabilities, temporary communication disabilities (e.g. while on ventilation), language disparities, cultural differences, and low literacy levels.
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(Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 2016)Research suggests that tests with non-modified response formats may be biased against learners with severe physical disabilities, with test scores reflecting the extent of learners’ disabilities rather than their ...
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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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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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(AOSIS, 2020-07)BACKGROUND : Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) can enable individuals with little or no functional speech to communicate functionally in a variety of communication contexts. AAC systems for individuals who ...
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(Wiley, 2023-10)AIM : This study aims to report patients' experiences of nursing care in the critical care unit and the resulting effect of such care on the personhood of patients. DESIGN AND METHOD : The study adopted a qualitative ...
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