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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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(University of Pretoria, 2008-04-24)Emotions are an essential part of development. There is evidence that young children understand and express emotions through facial expressions. Correct identification and recognition of facial expressions is important to ...
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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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(University of Pretoria, 2020-04-28)Achieving the right of access to healthcare for persons with disabilities is a challenge in Eswatini as a result of various barriers, such as availability of services, acceptability in healthcare facilities, financial and ...
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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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(University of Pretoria, 2021-11-01)Persons with severe communication disabilities often face violations of their basic human rights, such as exclusion from the justice system. Accessing the justice system – whether as a witness, defendant or legal practitioner ...
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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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(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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(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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(University of Pretoria, 2010-03-02)A severe aphasia following a cerebral vascular accident is characterised by generalised deficits in most speech-language domains. The clinical dilemma remains focused on the extensive verbal speech impairment and in most ...
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The association between maternal self-efficacy and maternal perception of child language competence (University of Pretoria, 2006-10-05)The aim of this study was to describe maternal self-efficacy beliefs within the parenting domain and maternal rating of pre-school child’s language abilities, where the child has a communication disability. The association ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-08-02)Please read the abstract in the section, 00front, of this document
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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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(University of Pretoria, 2014)iii Abstract Sibling relationships are amongst the most influential relationships in one’s life. Bringing autism spectrum disorder (ASD) into these interactional dynamics has a marked influence on these relationships for ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-09-06)Sibling relationships and the interaction within these relationships play a central role in children’s general development and will therefore impact on functional outcomes of children with severe speech and language ...
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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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