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Theses and Dissertations (Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC)): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-02-09)Many children with complex communication needs (CCN) are unable to meet their communication needs owing to various challenges like their family circumstances, additional disabilities, and severity of their disabilities as ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Background: South Africa recognizes 12 official languages and despite its commitment to supporting them equally, English still dominates in the healthcare and education sectors. Discrimination against multilingual clients ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Background: The understanding that the early years in a child’s life are crucial for laying a foundation for development and learning has led to a drive to ensure that all children need to access Early Childhood Development ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022-11)Background: Health professionals working in rehabilitative settings often encounter clients with little or no functional speech (LNFS) who would benefit from Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), however, their ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Persons in a minimally conscious state (MCS+) often have fluctuating levels of alertness as well as varying self- and environmental awareness. They inconsistently follow concrete- one-step instructions, show a fluctuating ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Background: Disability is still a controversial topic in many nations, in part because of ongoing stigma. People with disabilities have been stigmatised throughout history as being morally unacceptable or unwell and in ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022-11)Background: When designing AAC systems for children who have not yet developed conventional literacy skills, a process of vocabulary selection is employed. Core vocabulary is a list of words used frequently by particular ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This study employed an exploratory sequential mixed method design to develop and evaluate a programme aimed at training Vhavenda caregivers of children living in low-income contexts to implement augmentative and alternative ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Background: Parents’ involvement is essential for their children’s successful use of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices. When implementing AAC in their daily lives, children with complex communication ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022-07)Background: It is necessary to advance the integration of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) into rehabilitation plans to improve communication and social participation outcomes for persons with post-stroke ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022-05)BACKGROUND: Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) intervention is pivotal for obtaining functional outcomes in communication and participation of children with complex communication needs (CCN). Various studies ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Background: Assistive Technologies (AT) are often abandoned. As technology is an expanding and vast field, it should be utilised optimally for vulnerable populations. Research shows that to address this, there is an ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021-08)Participation or taking part in life situations, is a fundamental human right. Participation is a complex and multidimensional construct. The importance of participation on health, education, and well-being for children ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)This study develops and preliminarily validates the PRITT, an instrument to measure the parental role in intervention, for use with young children with a disability. Parental roles in intervention, i.e., the tasks and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021-11-14)Globally, persons with disabilities are facing exclusion from participation in the labour market. In South Africa, the employment rate of persons with severe communication disabilities remains low despite the implementation ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Children with communicative and/or cognitive disabilities are at high risk of experiencing abuse, which can have life-long effects on their health and well-being. Primary abuse prevention programs, pitched at school-level ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021-11-30)Background: An inflexible curriculum without any opportunity for modification or adaptation does not support inclusive education. Reports on early childhood education have resolved that traditional approaches to curriculum, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Most research done on children and youth with disabilities are cross-sectional designs. Good, quality longitudinal research designs in terms of theoretical, methodological and analytical considerations are recommended for ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The current knowledge about how children with disabilities (including those who use AAC) participate over time within home and community settings such as recreation, leisure and sporting activities is based predominantly ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Background: According to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Article (UNCRC) 12, all youth have the right to participate in all aspects of their lives. In order to realise this human right, it is ...
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