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Browsing Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology by UP Author "Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha)"
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Breytenbach, Deidre; Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha); Soer, Maggi E. (Magdalena Elizabeth) (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-12-09)BACKGROUND : In future, the South African Department of Health aims to purchase services from accredited private service providers. Successful private audiology practices can assist to address issues of access, equity ...
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Anderssen, Kate-Lyn; Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha); Pottas, Lidia (AOSIS, 2019-11)BACKGROUND : Studies indicate that difficulties English second language (ESL) learners experience in the classroom may not be attributed to only listening comprehension of the language of learning and teaching (LoLT). ...
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Kruger, Esedra; Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha); Pottas, Lidia (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2017-05-22)BACKGROUND : Specific breastfeeding and swallowing characteristics in neonates with hypox-icischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) have not yet been well described in the literature. Considering the relatively high incidence of ...
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Pike, Melissa; Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha); Kruger, Esedra (Mary Ann Liebert, 2017-12)OBJECTIVE : To describe the breastfeeding characteristics of late-preterm infants (LPIs) in a kangaroo mother care (KMC) unit. MATERIALS AND METHODS : In a 20-bed KMC unit, the breastfeeding of 73 purposively-selected ...
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Breastfeeding skills of full-term newborns and associated factors in a low-and-middle-income setting Kruger, Esedra; Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha); Pottas, Lidia (Makerere University Medical School, 2019-09)BACKGROUND : Normative information on the breastfeeding of term newborns may guide clinicians in early identification of breastfeeding difficulties and oro-pharyngeal dysphagia (OPD), and may support optimal breastfeeding ...
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Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha); Steenkamp, Lizanne (South African Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2006)The aim of the article is to describe the communication development of a child with Foetal Retinoid syndrome (FRS) from six months to seven years of age. Little is known about this rare acquired syndrome and its long-term ...
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Moodley, Pathmanathan; Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha); Vinck, Bart M. (EASA, 2014-05)The Early Childhood Development Manager in Mpumalanga is faced with the problem of providing evidence-based guidance of the best facilitation approach in the Grade R context. An investigation on the effect of facilitation, ...
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Viviers, Mari; Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha); Vinck, Bart M. (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2016-10-26)BACKGROUND : There is a need for validated neonatal feeding assessment instruments in South Africa. A locally developed instrument may contribute to standardised evaluation procedures of high-risk neonates and address needs ...
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Strasheim, Esedra; Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha); Louw, Brenda (South African Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2011-10)Neonatal communication intervention is important in South Africa, which has an increased prevalence of infants born with risks for disabilities and where the majority of infants live in poverty. Local literature showed a ...
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Early identification of learners with autism spectrum disorder : drawing on developmental histories Van Biljon, Sumari; Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha) (Routledge, 2019)This article examines early developmental histories of learners who attended a government-funded school for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in South Africa from 1992 to 2014. A total of 141 complete historical ...
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Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha); Van Rooyen, Elise (AOSIS OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11-06)BACKGROUND: Due to low-birth-weight, preterm birth, HIV and/or AIDS and poverty-related factors, South Africa presents with an increased prevalence of infants at risk of language delay. A Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) unit ...
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Eslick, Casey J.; Kruger, Esedra; Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha) (AOSIS, 2022-10-31)BACKGROUND : Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is associated with cognitive and motor deficits. Little is known about the swallowing, feeding and communication characteristics of hospitalised toddlers with SAM, limiting ...
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Kraamwinkel, Elmien; Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha) (Sage, 2022)Late language emergence (LLE) may result from genetic and environmental factors. Little is known about environmental factors in LLE in South Africa. The study describes the nature of differences in language functioning ...
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Erasmus, Sumari; Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha); Van der Linde, Jeannie (Routledge, 2022)Limited research is available about the financial costs incurred by families of children with ASD in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). This article describes socio-demographic characteristics of and financial costs ...
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Visser, Erantia; Kruger, Esedra; Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha) (Makerere University Medical School, 2018-12)BACKGROUND : There is limited description of the feeding characteristics of infants with unrepaired cleft lip and palate, exposed to HIV, but not necessarily infected. Objective: To compare the feeding characteristics ...
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Fouche, Lauren C.; Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha); Le Roux, Talita (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2018-09)BACKGROUND : South Africa presents with high preterm birth (PTB) and low birth weight (LBW) rates (14.17%). Numerous conditions characterised by language impairment are associated with LBW and/or PTB. Speech-language ...
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Van der Linde, Jeannie; Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha); Redelinghuys, Aniel (South African Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2009)Based on clinical observations, case finding for early communication intervention service delivery in rural areas, such as Ditsobotla sub-district, is limited. The study described the identification process used for infants ...
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Mosca, Renata; Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha); Van der Linde, Jeannie (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-10-16)BACKGROUND : Language and communication difficulties of young children with visual impairment (VI) are ascribed to intellectual disability, multiple disabilities and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) rather than their sensory ...
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Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha) (Elsevier, 2019-11)Catherine Wedderburn and colleagues’ birth cohort study1 makes an important contribution to the current understanding of the neurodevelopment— and particularly the language development—of the expanding population of ...
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Erasmus, Sumari; Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha); Van der Linde, Jeannie (Routledge, 2021)Late identification of children with ASD remains a concern. Due to limited research in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) such as South Africa (SA), the early management of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) should be ...
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