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Augmentative and alternative communication in South Africa: Accessibility and implementation

South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 1992
The paper deals with the development of a community-based service for the implementation of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies for people with severely limited verbal expression.
Erna Alant
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Determinants of undergraduate bioscience engagement: Validating attendance barriers and classroom spatial behaviour across institutions

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Student engagement extends beyond simple attendance. Across 891 bioscience students from three universities, attendance behaviour was associated mainly with structural influences, whereas classroom spatial behaviour reflected affective and sensory factors.
Nigel Page, Rachel J. Hunt, Lauren J. Albee, Daniel Berwick, Alison Snape   +4 more
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Identifying and describing school-age children who would benefit from AAC: A scoping review of survey tools

South 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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Motor neuron disease: The impact of decreased speech intelligibility on marital communication

South African Family Practice, 2012
Background: The onset of motor neuron disease (MND), a neurodegenerative disease, results in physical and communication disabilities that impinge on an individual’s ability to remain functionally independent.
K. Joubert, J. Bornman
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Chronobiology of Cancer: How Aging Fuels Oncogenesis at the Molecular Level

Aging and Cancer, EarlyView.
This graphical abstract illustrates the key biological pathways linking aging with cancer development and progression. In the upper left, cumulative exposure to ultraviolet radiation, toxins, and reactive oxygen species (ROS) causes DNA damage and genomic instability, whereas age‐related decline in repair mechanisms, such as ATM/ATR, BER, and NER ...
Anu Singh, Aroonima Misra, Sufian Zaheer
wiley   +1 more source

Instrumental Enrichment in learners with learning difficulties: a scoping review of cognitive, non-cognitive skills, and executive functioning outcomes

Cogent Education
The Instrumental Enrichment (IE) programme, grounded in the concept of mediated learning, has been implemented internationally across all educational levels, yet its diverse impacts remain underexplored due to the predominant focus of existing literature
Anna Tyranes, Juan Bornman
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Self‐Regulated Learning Meets AI: Reinterpreting Self‐Regulation, Co‐Regulation, and Socially Shared Regulation in Human–AI Interaction

New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Advancing artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed learning and work, yet higher education and professional development programs have not systematically equipped learners for AI‐prevalent environments. This lack of preparation creates uncertainty regarding control, responsibility, trust, and accountability.
Moon‐Heum Cho, Jerusalem Merkebu
wiley   +1 more source

Augmentative and alternative communication training: The effect on perceptions of special school teachers

South African Journal of Education
Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies benefit learners with complex communication needs (CCN) by allowing them to participate, interact and learn.
Bathobile Charity Ngcobo , Juan Bornman
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How pain management for children with cerebral palsy in South African schools complies with up-to-date knowledge

African Journal of Disability, 2019
Background: Pain in children with cerebral palsy (CP) has its sources in musculoskeletal problems that can influence learning in a school setting. Best pain management is essential for these children, but school staff may not keep up to date with the ...
Ensa Johnson, Stefan Nilsson, Margareta Adolfsson   +2 more
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Evaluation of Digital Technologies for Home‐Based Assessment in People With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Digital technologies hold promise for transforming healthcare by enhancing personalized treatments and offer valuable opportunities to improve patient care. Here, we evaluated several novel, self‐administered, home‐based, digital endpoints for their association with corresponding conventional standard clinical measures (primary) in ...
Arne Mueller, Vanessa Vallejo, Mónica Povedano Panadés, Orla Hardiman, Véronique Danel‐Brunaud, Senda Ajroud‐Driss, Philippe Couratier, Jeremy Shefner, Anna Gokey, Mike DiCesare, Erin Lennox, Jens Praestgaard, Lucie Brujin, Peggy Allred, Ram Miller   +14 more
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