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Examining the Understandings of Young Adult South African Men Who Stutter: The Question of Disability
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Isaacs, Dane; Swartz, Leslie – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2022
Background: A disability studies approach seeks to understand and address political and social issues that affect disabled individuals. Disability studies scholars employ various models of disability to address and oppose the oppression and discrimination of disabled individuals. A disability studies approach, however, has largely been absent in…
Descriptors: Males, Young Adults, Stuttering, Foreign Countries
The Effectiveness of Gross Motor Interventions in Improving Motor Function in Childhood Apraxia of Speech
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Nolte, Heike; Solomons, Regan; Springer, Priscilla; Kidd, Martin; Africa, Eileen – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) often present motor co-ordination difficulties accompanying their speech and sound delays. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of a paired versus a small group gross motor intervention on selected pre-school children, pre-identified with CAS. Children pre-identified with…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Intervention, Preschool Children, Speech Impairments
The Clinical Practice of Speech and Language Therapists with Children with Phonologically Based Speech Sound Disorders
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Oliveira, Carla; Lousada, Marisa; Jesus, Luis M. T. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2015
Children with speech sound disorders (SSD) represent a large number of speech and language therapists' caseloads. The intervention with children who have SSD can involve different therapy approaches, and these may be articulatory or phonologically based. Some international studies reveal a widespread application of articulatory based approaches in…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Therapy, Speech Impairments, Children
Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Intelligibility in Context Scale for South Africa
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Pascoe, Michelle; McLeod, Sharynne – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2016
The Intelligibility in Context Scale (ICS) is a screening questionnaire that focuses on parents' perceptions of children's speech in different contexts. Originally developed in English, it has been translated into 60 languages and the validity and clinical utility of the scale has been documented in a range of countries. In South Africa, there are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Parent Attitudes, Cross Cultural Studies
South African Teachers' Attitudes toward Learners with Barriers to Learning: Attention-Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder and Little or No Functional Speech
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Bornman, Juan; Donohue, Dana K. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2013
This study examined teachers' attitudes toward learners with two types of barriers to learning: a learner with attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and a learner with little or no functional speech (LNFS). The results indicated that although teachers reported that the learner with ADHD would be more disruptive in class and have a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Teacher Attitudes, Barriers
Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and Literacy and Learning
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Mitten, H. Rae – International Journal of Special Education, 2013
Evidence-based Practice Guidelines for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and Literacy and Learning are derived from an inductive analysis of qualitative data collected in field research. FASD is the umbrella term for a spectrum of neurocognitive and physical disabilities caused by prenatal exposure to alcohol. Data from a sample of N =150 was…
Descriptors: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Older Adults, Adults, Parents