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Browsing Humanities by UP Author "Alant, Erna"
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Rajaram, Priya; Alant, Erna; Dada, Shakila (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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Solarsh, Barbara; Alant, Erna (Elsevier, 2006)A culturally appropriate test, The Test of Ability To Explain for Zulu-speaking Children (TATE-ZC), was developed to measure verbal problem solving skills of rural, Zulu-speaking, primary school children. Principles of ...
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De Klerk, Hester Magdalena; Dada, Shakila; Alant, Erna (Elsevier, 2014-11)PURPOSE : Speech language pathologists recommend graphic symbols for AAC users to facilitate communication, including labelling and expressing emotions. The purpose of the current study was to describe and compare how ...
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Casey, Maureen Anne; Tonsing, Kerstin Monika; Alant, Erna (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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Alant, Erna; Geyer, Stephan; Verde, Michael (University of the Free State, 2015)141 Developing empathetic skills among teachers and learners in high schools in Tshwane: An inter-generational approach involving people with dementia Erna Alant Stephan Geyer Michael Verde This article describes ...
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Alant, Erna; Emmett, A.; Samuels, Alecia E. (OTASA: Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa, 2007)Since 1994 disability organisations, like other organisations in the country, have had to face significant transformation. While the disability sector achieved major success in including issues surrounding recognition of ...
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Dada, Shakila; Granlund, Mats; Alant, Erna (Blackwell, 2007-07)BACKGROUND : Activity-based intervention has been defined as a child-directed, transactional approach that uses logically occurring antecedents and consequences to develop functional and generative skills by embedding ...
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Alant, Erna (Science Publishing Group, 2016-05-13)Emmanuel Levinas [1] argued that ethics cannot be regarded as a set of principles, rules or norms, but rather that the fundamental basis of ethics is communication and negotiated decision-making. This article explores the ...
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Balton, Sadna; Uys, Kitty; Alant, Erna (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-04-23)BACKGROUND : There has been an overwhelming call to improve the understanding of how children develop within an African context as Euro-American definitions of competence have been uncritically adopted as the norm for ...
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Stobbart, Carlin Lillian; Alant, Erna (Springer, 2008)The low literacy levels achieved by deaf children are of ongoing concern for educators and researchers alike. This study aims to further enhance understanding of issues that might impact on children’s literacy learning ...
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Alant, Erna; Du Plooy, Amelia; Dada, Shakila (South African Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2007)Although the sequence of graphic or pictorial symbols displayed on a communication board can have an impact on the language ouput of children, very little research has been conducted to describe this. Research in this area ...
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Harty, Michal; Alant, Erna; Uys, Catharina Jacoba Elizabeth (Blackwell, 2007-03)Background: The aim of this study was to describe maternal self-efficacy beliefs within the parenting domain and maternal ratings of pre-school children's language abilities, where the child has a communication disability. ...
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Johnson, Ensa; Bornman, Juan; Alant, Erna (Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2010-03)The early reading process can be viewed as triadic, encompassing the child, the parents and the environment. We examine the impact of each of these three components on children’s participation in home reading activities ...
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Goldblum, Glenn; Alant, Erna (Taylor & Francis, 2009)BACKGROUND: General lack of awareness regarding neurogenic communication disorders generally, and cognitive communication disorders following a traumatic brain injury (TBI) specifically, has resulted in pervasive environmental ...
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Tonsing, Kerstin Monika; Dada, Shakila; Alant, Erna (Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2014-12)The aim of this study was to determine the effect of an intervention strategy on the production of graphic symbol combinations in children with limited speech. Four children between the ages of 6;5 and 10;8 (years;months) ...
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Bornman, Juan; Alant, Erna; Du Preez, Anlie (Taylor & Francis, 2009-12)Although the importance of iconicity in the learning of symbols has been widely acknowledged, there have been few systematic investigations into the influence of culture on the ratings of symbol iconicity. The purposes ...
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Alant, Erna; Zheng, Wenjing; Harty, Michal; Lloyd, Lyle (Informa Healthcare, 2013-09)The use of graphic symbols forms an integral part of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies, particularly for pre-literate children. Although some studies have indicated that typically developing ...
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Herold, M.P. (Marina Patricia); Alant, Erna; Bornman, Juan (Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2008)Children with spelling difficulties are limited in their participation in all written school activities. We aimed to investigate the influence of word-prediction as a tool on spelling accuracy and typing speed. To this ...
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