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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology) by Supervisor "Kruger, Esedra"
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in worldwide lockdown regulations impacting individuals’ access to, and participation in everyday activities. Individuals with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) face additional barriers to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Objective: To describe the breastfeeding characteristics of late-preterm infants (LPIs) in a kangaroo mother care unit (KMC). Materials and methods: In a 20-bed KMC unit, the breastfeeding of 73 purposively-selected LPIs’ ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021-04-28)Background: Breastfeeding amongst HIV-infected and HIV-exposed mother-infant dyads is a wide-ranging and persistent field in which more investigation is needed. The literature widely recognizes the multifactorial and ...
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Cleft lip and/or palate and associated risks in lowermiddle-income countries : a systematic review (University of Pretoria, 2021)Background: Cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) is a complex, heterogeneous disorder which occurs due to the interplay between environmental and biological risk factors. Individuals in lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) are ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Background: As advanced dementia progresses, individuals become increasingly dependent on health, social, and community care services, and feeding difficulties become common. Oropharyngeal dysphagia is prevalent in people ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019-11)Background: Effective Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) transmission prevention strategies have led to a growing population of vulnerable HIV-exposed (HE) infants in sub-Saharan Africa, however uncertainty exists in ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Background: The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a disruption in rehabilitation and loss of support systems for significant others of individuals with traumatic brain injury. This study explored experiences regarding support ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Background: There are prevalent environmental risk factors present in low- and middle-income countries, placing infants in underserved communities at an increased risk for feeding and developmental difficulties. Aim: The ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019-10)BACKGROUND There is a limited amount of literature on the feeding characteristics and nature of possible feeding difficulties of infants in a primary health care (PHC) in South Africa. OBJECTIVE To describe feeding ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Background: There is limited description of the feeding characteristics of infants with unrepaired cleft lip and palate (CLP), exposed to HIV and antiretroviral treatment. Objective: To determine whether the feeding ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Purpose: Deficits in communication may predominantly impact communication participation after traumatic brain injury, although links between specific communication deficits and the type of communication partner have not ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019-10)Background: Early identification of stroke-related oropharyngeal dysphagia (OPD) using screening by nurses can prevent adverse patient outcomes in lower-middle-income countries (LMICs). Nurses are essential in the OPD ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Background and objective: HIV-exposed infants are a priority group at-risk for oropharyngeal dysphagia (OPD), yet little is known of their oral-motor functioning during feeding in infancy. This study aimed to compare the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-08-31)Background: Aphasia can cause changes in a relationship as communication forms the basis of interactions. Reduced talking and sharing of thoughts may result in emotional disconnection, or alternatively, partners may grow ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020-02-27)Background: Working-age adults with aphasia experience difficulties in social participation, specifically the ability to fulfil social roles and reintegrate into communities. Literature regarding social participation of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Background: Counselling, collaboration with mothers, and management of oro-pharyngeal dysphagia within the first few days of an infant’s life, results in favourable breastfeeding outcomes. Little is known about speech-language ...
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Psychosocial care of people with aphasia : practices of speech-language therapists in South Africa (University of Pretoria, 2021-03-18)Rationale: The study aimed to explore the practices of South African speech-language therapists in providing psychosocial care to people with aphasia. People with aphasia are at risk of adverse psychosocial disruptions and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)Background: Word retrieval deficits are a common, pervasive feature of aphasia. Semantic feature analysis (SFA) is a popular treatment technique for word retrieval impairment. Preliminary evidence of its use in small ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Background: There is limited knowledge of how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted service provision in South African public and private Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs), specifically from the perspective of speech-language ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Aim To determine the swallowing and feeding characteristics of young children on high flow oxygen (HFO2). Method Twelve participants (mean age=2.8 years; SD=0.3) on HFO2 were assessed using a bedside clinical assessment ...
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