Research News

  • Professor Juan Bornman has been selected among the Mail & Guardian's "Women Changing South Africa"

    Posted on September 11, 2019

    "In many countries across the world, girl children with disability still have fewer opportunities to attend school than girls without disabilities and also fewer opportunities than boys with disability."

  • South African-Swedish research collaboration project

    Posted on May 29, 2019

    Dr Ensa Johnson (Centre for AAC, UP) and Associate Prof Stefan Nilsson from Gothenburg University in Sweden received funding from the National Research Foundation (NRF), Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT) as well as the South African Swedish...

  • Formalizing the collaboration between the University of Pretoria and Leibniz University Hannover, Germany.

    Posted on May 23, 2018

    On Friday, 11 May 2018, Prof Ulrike Lüdtke, head of the Department of Speech and Language Pedagogy & Therapy, managing director of the Institute of Special Education, one of the largest institutes of the Faculty of Humanities of the Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), in Germany visited the...

  • Reflections on Collaboration

    Posted on April 05, 2018

    Increasingly universities requires researchers to embark on collaborative research with local and international researchers. As the principal investigators on a National Research Foundation (NRF) and Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT) Science...

  • Kolkata - A city of contrasts

    Posted on December 05, 2017

    Kolkata is the second largest city in India situated in West Bengal. Kolkata for most visitors conjures up images of human suffering and poverty. This is a partial picture of this vibrant city. It is a city of contrasts, not unlike South Africa, noble and squalid; historic and futuristic...

  • Dr Schlebusch receives prestigious Autism Research Award

    Posted on October 13, 2017

    Dr Liezl Schlebusch was recently chosen as a recipient of an Emerging Researcher Award from the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) and Autism Speaks.

  • Lesotho Collaboration - the Kingdom in the Sky

    Posted on June 08, 2017

    Lesotho might be a tiny landlocked country, nestled between the Drakensberg and Maloti mountain ranges but it is a country with a big heart. It is entirely surrounded by South Africa, and from 25 to 27 May 2017 four South Africans from the Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication...

  • Prof. Alants' new book is a meaningful contribution to the field of AAC

    Posted on December 02, 2016

    Prof Erna Alants’ book entitled: AAC Engagement and participation, published by Plural Publishing, is a meaningful contribution to the field of AAC

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