A day in the life at the University of Pretoria. 03 November 2015

On this "Day in the life of the University of Pretoria" staff members and students from the Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication presented research findings at the ENT/SAAA/SASHLA Congress in Durban.

Papers presented on this day included Prof J Bornman’s keynote address entitled “The role of AAC in ensuring equal access to justice for persons with severe communication disabilities: A case discussion”. Dr S Dada also presented a paper entitled “An Auto‐ethnographic Exploration: Postgraduate research supervision.” A student from the centre, Miss R Morwane, exhibited a poster entitled “Shared storybook reading interactions between Sotho‐speaking pre‐schoolers with complex communication needs and their primary caregivers”.

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