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Identifying and describing school-age children who would benefit from AAC: A scoping review of survey tools [PDF]

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Communication Disorders
Background: For decades, teaching and learning have relied primarily on oral communication. However, learners with little or no functional speech (LNFS) require augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies to support learning and ...
Bathobile C. Ngcobo, Juan Bornman
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The involvement matrix as a framework for involving youth with severe communication disabilities in developing health education materials

open access: yesHealth Expectations, 2022
Introduction Involving youth with severe communication disabilities in health research is foregrounded in a perspective of rights and participation. Researchers aligned with a participatory and inclusive research agenda recommend that involving youth in ...
Shakila Dada   +8 more
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Investigating Court Accommodations for Persons with Severe Communication Disabilities: Perspectives of International Legal Experts

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2021
Globally, persons with disabilities, specifically individuals with severe communication disabilities, require a range of court accommodations to enable them access to the court system, thereby realizing their right to access to justice.
Robyn White, Ensa Johnson, Juan Bornman
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Augmenting Television With Augmented Reality [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 2019 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video, 2019
This paper explores the effects of adding augmented reality (AR) artefacts to an existing TV programme. A prototype was implemented augmenting a popular nature documentary. Synchronised content was delivered over a Microsoft HoloLens and a TV. Our preliminary findings suggest that the addition of AR to an existing TV programme can result in creation of
Saeghe, Pejman   +8 more
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Sufijos diminutivos y aumentativos en el discurso periodístico español: enfoque pragmático-funcional

open access: yesStudia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2023
The present article suggests a pragmatic-funcional approach to analyse diminutive and augmentative de-rivatives in Spanish newspapers ABC, El Mundo and El País. More specifically, the focus of interest is on studying their connotative meanings (emotional
Khrystyna Leskó
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The role of suffixation in encoding highest/lowest intensity in Romanian and Spanish [PDF]

open access: yesDiversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2022
Any theoretical analysis of a fragment of reality is carried out by means of abstract models and aims to capture the specificity of a phenomenon.
Violeta BUTISEACĂ
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Barriers to and facilitators of employment of persons with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Disability, 2021
Background: Unemployment rates for persons with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are high. This is despite the call to action by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Sustainable Development ...
Refilwe E. Morwane   +2 more
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Attitudes of Children Towards Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Communication Disorders, 2001
The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of voice output, as a characteristic of a child's AAC system, on the attitude of unfamiliar peers.
Margaret Lilienfeld, Erna Alant
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Strangers in the house? Communication between mothers and their hearing impaired children who sign

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Communication Disorders, 2000
Many hearing impaired children rely on signing as a method of communication and are educated through this medium at school. While there is a paucity of information on the use of signing in the home, the impression in the literature is that these children
Lavanithum Joseph, Erna Alant
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A review of interventions for children and youth with severe disabilities in inclusive education

open access: yesCogent Education, 2023
Children with severe disabilities are often excluded from educational opportunities due to inter alia attitudinal barriers and a lack of teacher training. This scoping review paper assessed intervention studies focused on inclusive education for children
Shakila Dada   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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