Posted on September 14, 2015
Four postgraduate students from the Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC) were chosen to present their research at the Humanities Day Postgraduate Student Conference at the University of Pretoria on the 3rd September 2015.
Posted on September 10, 2015
UP's FOFA Project is the first of its kind in Africa and aims to help people with little or no functional speech to spread their wings and develop to their full potential.
Posted on September 08, 2015
The Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication is extremely proud of our three PhD Graduates who graduated at the University of Pretoria's Spring Graduation on the 2nd September 2015.
Posted on September 02, 2015
I am. Even though I cannot speak, I am here, I am present, I have a unique personality. I am a person. But I cannot speak. I cannot share myself with you. And so I become invisible...
Posted on September 01, 2015
Prof Juan Bornman, Director of the Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC) at UP, is currently on sabbatical and has delved into the origins of language as part of her studies.
Posted on August 24, 2015
The Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC) was honoured to have Prof Rajinder Koul visit for five weeks.
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.
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.
Posted on July 22, 2015
Prof MaryAnn Romski will be awarded the Honors of the Association by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) in November 2015.
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.
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.
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...
Posted on May 25, 2015
Graduation is a time of joy and happiness. A time of fulfilled dreams and excitement at the possibilities that lie ahead
Posted on April 21, 2015
The CAAC and the University of Pretoria strongly condemns all forms of xenophobia and associated violence across the country.
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.
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.
Posted on March 13, 2015
Dreams become inevitable when we commit to them and, perhaps equally important, when those around us also commit to them.
Posted on March 06, 2015
The CAAC had an opportunity to train Eskom employees on disability etiquette.
Posted on January 23, 2015
Prof Juan Bornman, of the Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC) at the University of Pretoria (UP), recently published an international book titled Stop the violence against people with disabilities: an international resource.
Posted on January 23, 2015
Dr. Boshoff, an international visitor, has assisted the Centre for AAC's PhD students and staff in writing successful Systematic Reviews.
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