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  • Dr Ensa Johnson receives prestigious award

    Posted on August 19, 2015

    Dr Ensa Johnson, from the Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication at the University of Pretoria, received the Margaret McNamara Education Award for women who make a difference in the lives of other women and children.

  • The 26th Annual AAC Research Seminar and the Neville Cohen Memorial lecture

    Posted on August 11, 2015

    On 31 July the Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC) hosted its 26th Annual Research Seminar which included exciting and ground-breaking research presentations.

  • Mandela Day: CAAC master’s students give of their time

    Posted on July 21, 2015

    ‘Disabled children are equally entitled to an exciting and brilliant future.’ These words were spoken by Nelson Mandela during the opening of the First Annual South African Junior Wheelchair Sports Camp in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 4 December 1994.

  • CAAC in Sweden - Inspiration from South Africa

    Posted on June 18, 2015

    Professor Juan Bornman, from the University of Pretoria (UP)'s Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC), recently visited the CHILD research unit at Jönköping University in Sweden to lecture and to plan upcoming joint research projects.

  • Third year speech-language pathology and audiology students learn about AAC

    Posted on June 01, 2015

    The ability to speak, is often taken for granted, and it is only when you lose that ability, that you realize what you have lost. Augmentative and Alternative communication, also known as AAC, is a term that is used to describe various methods of communication that can help people who are unable...

  • No to Xenophobia

    Posted on April 21, 2015

    The CAAC and the University of Pretoria strongly condemns all forms of xenophobia and associated violence across the country.

  • PHinisheD

    Posted on March 30, 2015

    Mrs. Alida Naude successfully defended her PhD thesis,” Exploring ethical sensitivity in the South African context: Developing and implementing a measure in the therapeutic sciences”, on 19 March 2014.

  • Hosting Prof Brenda Louw – what a privilege!

    Posted on March 30, 2015

    The Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC) had the honour of hosting Prof Brenda Louw from 8–21 March 2015.

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