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- ajod-1
- author: None
- title: ajod-1
- date: None
- words: 8473
- flesch: 39
- summary: Participants agreed that when they have been active as role models in their respective communities and in CBR programmes this has really helped change the mindset of other PWDs in the community, as well perhaps as the attitudes of non-disabled people around them. Lack of infrastructure The Ugandans saw lack of infrastructure and accessibility as a challenge to CBR programmes, especially mentioning roads and transport.
- keywords: access; activities; agencies; aids; approach; building; cbr; cbr guidelines; communities; community; concept; consultation; countries; data; development; disabilities; disability; disabled; document; dpos; draft; education; enable; example; families; field; focus; ghana; global; groups; guidelines; health; healthcare; human; ilo; impairment; implementation; important; inclusion; inclusive; ingos; initiatives; international; issues; key; lack; life; local; london; medical; methods; model; multi; needs; new; opportunities; order; organisations; paper; participants; participation; participatory; partnerships; people; persons; policy; poverty; practice; principles; process; programmes; pwds; rehabilitation; research; review; rights; role; sectoral; sectors; services; sightsavers; social; society; stakeholders; strategy; team; training; uganda; uncrpd; unesco; united; work; world
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- ajod-10
- author: None
- title: ajod-10
- date: None
- words: 6628
- flesch: 36
- summary: Furthermore, speech therapists’ collaboration with community-based rehabilitation workers in terms of carer training holds great potential for covering the extensive training needs newly opened up by the recent High Court ruling that children in special care centres will receive appropriate stimulation and/or educational inputs (Western Cape High Court 2011). For those with severe communication disabilities, an additional lack is in the area of the basic human right to meaningful interactions and communication.
- keywords: action; activities; africa; approach; attention; basic; basic communication; behaviours; cape; care centres; carers; centres; challenge; children; communication; communication disabilities; communication training; community; court; development; disabilities; disability; disabled; diverse; education; effective; enjoyment; formal; forum; games; group; hands; health; high; human; implementation; individual; inputs; intellectual; language; level; limited; nations; needs; non; observed; opportunities; participation; physical; policy; problem; profound; rehabilitation; research; rights; self; session; severe; severe disabilities; sharing; site; skills; social; south; south africa; special; speech; stimulation; strategies; strategy; support; taking; terms; therapists; therapy; time; training; turn; tutorial; united; verbal; western
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- ajod-100
- author: None
- title: ajod-100
- date: None
- words: 5022
- flesch: 37
- summary: The multitude of structural barriers, including sometimes difficult patient-doctor conversations about the renewal of disability grants, shape patients’ experiences of the clinic environment and influence their adherence to care. Introducion Top ↑ In 2009, a major national South African newspaper published a report stating that ‘driven by sheer poverty, scores of desperate AIDS victims are refusing life-saving treatment to get social grants’ (Govender 2009). Concluding remarks • Acknowledgements • Competing interests • References Abstract Top ↑ Anecdotal data suggest that some South Africans living with HIV who receive disability grants from the state deliberately default on their antiretroviral medication in an attempt to lower their CD4 count to remain eligible for grants.
- keywords: access; adherence; africa; aids; antiretroviral; art; article; barriers; behaviour; big; campbell; capital; care; cd4; child; community; conditions; context; countries; csg; data; development; disability; disability grants; economic; eligibility; eligible; environment; et al; evidence; february; government; grant; health; high; hiv; incentive; income; journal; levels; likely; medical; medication; national; nattrass; need; non; patients; persons; perverse; poor; poverty; relief; renewal; research; resource; saharan; social; south; south africa; structural; study; sub; support; therapy; treatment; users; ware; welfare
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- ajod-1001
- author: Office, Editorial
- title: Table of Contents Vol 10 (2021)
- date: 2021-12-30
- words: 971
- flesch: -14
- summary: The black hole of dealing with a disability diagnosis: Views of South African rural parents Vuyelwa V. Duma, Ntombekhaya Tshabalala, Gubela Mji African Journal of Disability | Vol 10 | a951 | 29 November 2021 160 173 184 Original Research Community-based workers’ capacity to develop inclusive livelihoods for youth with disabilities in Botswana Ermien van Pletzen, Bryson Kabaso, Theresa Lorenzo African Journal of Disability | Vol 10 | a851 | 09 December 2021 Correction Erratum: The life stories and experiences of the children admitted to the Institute for Imbecile Children from 1895 to 1913 March 2021 Review Article African families’ and caregivers’ experiences of raising a child with intellectual disability: A narrative synthesis of qualitative studies Siyabulela Mkabile, Kathrine L. Garrun, Mary Shelton, Leslie Swartz African Journal of Disability | Vol 10 | a827 | 30 April 2021 Review Article Barriers to and facilitators of employment of persons with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review Refilwe E. Morwane, Shakila Dada, Juan Bornman African Journal of Disability | Vol 10 | a833 | 22 June 2021 Original Research Altered cervical posture kinematics imposed by heavy school backpack loading: A literature synopsis (2009–2019) Terry J. Ellapen, Yvonne Paul, Henriëtte V. Hammill, Mariëtte Swanepoel African Journal of Disability | Vol 10 | a687 | 22 January 2021 Original Research Using selected behaviour modification practices to enhance reinforcement of reading abilities among dyslexic learners in Kenya Pamela A. Ooko, Peter J.O. Aloka African Journal of Disability | Vol 10 | a707 | 29 January 2021 Original Research Cognitive behaviour therapy-based early intervention and prevention programme for anxiety in South African children with visual impairments Lisa Visagie, Helene Loxton, Leslie Swartz, Paul Stallard African Journal of Disability | Vol 10 | a796 | 29 January 2021 Original Research Perspectives on access and usage of assistive technology by people with intellectual disabilities in the Western Cape province of South Africa: Where to from here? Fleur H. Boot, Callista Kahonde, John Dinsmore, Malcolm MacLachlan African Journal of Disability | Vol 10 | a767 | 23 February 2021 Original Research Sexual and reproductive health services utilisation amongst in-school young people with disabilities in Ghana Akwasi Kumi-Kyereme African Journal of Disability | Vol 10 | a671 | 01 March 2021 Original Research Malawian mothers’ experiences of raising children living with albinism: A qualitative descriptive study Naomi Likumbo, Tania de Villiers, Una Kyriacos African Journal of Disability | Vol 10 | a693 | 20 April 2021 1 11 21 33 43 53 61 72 81 Vol 10 (2021)
- keywords: access; african; african journal; april; children; contents; dada; disabilities; disability; experiences; huus; intellectual; journal; june; karina; leslie; original; original research; people; research; review; shakila; shakila dada; south; study; swartz; table; vol
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- ajod-1002
- author: None
- title: ajod-1002
- date: None
- words: 8951
- flesch: 38
- summary: Similar to the neighbouring country of Kenya, in Ethiopia disability is perceived to occur because of missteps by the mother, such as infidelity, or the way the mother treats others while she is pregnant (Bunning et al. 2017; Franck & Joshi 2017), thus, leading to the view that the child’s disability is a form of punishment or curse (Bunning). Iyassu, S.A. & McKinnon, F., 2021, ‘Disability rights are human rights: Pushing Ethiopia towards a rights based movement’, Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights 19(1), 51–61, viewed 08 April 2022 from https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/njihr/vol19/iss1/5. Marishet, M.H., 2017, ‘Legal capacity of persons with disabilities in Ethiopia: The need to reform existing legal frameworks’, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 55, 8–18.
- keywords: access; activities; activity; analysis; approach; april; areas; assessment; attitudes; authors; awareness; barriers; basic; building; canada; capabilities; care; challenges; change; community; context; convention; country; data; development; disabilities; disability; economic; education; efforts; ethiopia; example; experiences; factors; families; family; fdre; findings; fms; focus; form; gondar; government; health; human; icf; impact; important; income; infrastructure; international; interviews; journal; kingston; lack; legal; life; limitations; limited; local; marginalisation; nations; need; number; nussbaum; opportunities; order; organization; participants; participation; people; persons; physical; practical; problem; public; qualitative; queen; rehabilitation; related; research; resources; result; rights; roles; rural; school; services; social; students; study; support; therapy; uncrpd; united; university; work; world
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- ajod-1004
- author: None
- title: ajod-1004
- date: None
- words: 8943
- flesch: 33
- summary: Anne Kumurenzi Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda Julie Richardson Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Lehana Thabane Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Jeanne Kagwiza Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda Ines Musabyemariya Functional Rehabilitation Programme, Humanity and Inclusion, Kigali, Rwanda Jackie Bosch Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Citation Kumurenzi, A., Richardson, J., Thabane, L., Kagwiza, J., Musabyemariya, I. & Bosch, J., 2022, ‘Provision and use of physical rehabilitation services for adults with disabilities in Rwanda: A descriptive study’, African Journal of Disability 11(0), a1004. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v11i0.1004 Research Project Registration: Project Number: 00001973 Original Research Provision and use of physical rehabilitation services for adults with disabilities in Rwanda:
- keywords: 2018; access; adults; africa; analysis; areas; article; available; barriers; canada; care; centres; characteristics; community; cost; countries; data; disabilities; disability; district; et al; facilitators; facilities; facility; family; figure; funding; global; health; health facilities; healthcare; hospitals; human; income; international; interventions; issues; jesus; journal; kigali; limited; lowand; middle; ministry; national; need; number; organization; participants; patients; people; personnel; persons; physical; physical rehabilitation; population; professionals; provision; pts; public; public facilities; referral; rehabilitation; rehabilitation facilities; rehabilitation services; report; research; resources; rural; rwanda; sciences; semiprivate; semiprivate facilities; services; settings; situation; south; specialised; statistics; stroke; study; support; survey; table; times; training; university; urban; use; world; years
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- ajod-1009
- author: None
- title: ajod-1009
- date: None
- words: 6226
- flesch: 39
- summary: This article identifies and elaborates new concepts and ideas that can enable sustainability and resiliency in disabled learners as a result of an inclusive education environment, thereby contributing to reducing disabled learner dropouts. Funda (2020) believed that unless all teachers, teacher-administrators and non-disabled learners understand disability, disabled learners will be marginalised and stigmatised in mainstream schools because of a lack of political will from the government and support from the school authorities.
- keywords: 3(1; africa; analysis; article; author; basic; charmaz; children; coding; collection; community; covid-19; creswell; data; december; department; depth; development; disabilities; disability; disabled; disabled children; disabled learners; discussion; dropouts; economic; education; figure; funda; gauteng; guardians; hand; heads; health; impairments; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive education; interventions; interview; learners; learning; limpopo; mainstream; narrative; needs; non; number; obstacles; opinions; ostendorf; pandemic; parents; participants; participation; perspectives; policies; poth; primary; provinces; qualitative; research; results; role; sage; school; social; south; south africa; study; success; support; table; teachers; theory
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- ajod-1018
- author: None
- title: ajod-1018
- date: None
- words: 7164
- flesch: 41
- summary: Abstract Introduction Research methodology and design Presentation and discussion of findings Conclusion Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Daniel O. Ashipala Department of General Nursing Science, School of Nursing and Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Namibia, Rundu, Namibia Lettie Langendorf Department of General Nursing Science, School of Nursing and Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Namibia, Rundu, Namibia Citation Ashipala, D.O. & Langendorf, L., 2022, ‘Experiences of spinal cord injury patients admitted to the rehabilitation unit at the national referral hospital in Khomas region, Namibia’, African Journal of Disability 11(0), a1018. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v11i0.1018 Original Research Experiences of spinal cord injury patients admitted to the rehabilitation unit at the national referral hospital in Khomas region, Namibia Daniel O. Ashipala, Lettie Langendorf Received: 10 Feb. 2022; Accepted: 23 Apr. 2022; Published: 27 July 2022 Copyright: © 2022.
- keywords: 2019; access; activities; addition; african; analysis; authors; awareness; care; challenges; community; cord; cord injury; data; depression; design; disabilities; disability; emotional; et al; experiences; family; female; findings; following; health; hospital; impact; important; information; injuries; injury; interview; journal; khomas; knowledge; life; lives; male; medicine; namibia; national; negative; new; notes; nursing; old; outreach; participants; patients; peer; people; physical; positive; process; programmes; psychological; qualitative; referral; region; rehabilitation; research; rights; road; sci; sciences; scis; self; services; social; society; spinal; spinal cord; stress; study; subtheme; support; university; wheelchair; year
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- ajod-1020
- author: None
- title: ajod-1020
- date: None
- words: 8349
- flesch: 28
- summary: The disability inclusion framework The framework for the measurement and monitoring of key domains of disability inclusion was proposed in Schneider & Suich (2021), which also tested a proof of concept of disability inclusion measurement using an existing dataset. In this article, we therefore focus on monitoring outcomes at the individual level across a range of inclusion domains, following a framework and ‘proof of concept’ of disability inclusion monitoring, described in the methods section and in detail in Schneider & Suich (2021).
- keywords: access; affect; africa; analysis; article; category; classifications; conditions; contributions; data; dataset; development; differences; different; difficulties; disabilities; disability; disability inclusion; disability severity; domains; economic; education; exclusion; framework; functioning; gap; gender; groups; healthcare; high; higher; inclusion; inclusion levels; inclusion rates; inclusive; indicators; individuals; information; institutional; levels; likely; living; lower; measure; mild; moderate; moderate disabilities; monitoring; number; opportunities; original; outcomes; people; personal; policies; policy; poverty; proportion; rates; relationships; research; responses; results; safety; sample; schneider; severity; social; south; statistics; status; suich; support; survey; systems; table; voice; women
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- ajod-1025
- author: None
- title: ajod-1025
- date: None
- words: 12232
- flesch: 45
- summary: Abstract Background: Child abuse is a serious public health issue in low- and middle-income countries, and children with disabilities are at greater risk of abuse. Twelve key informant interviews and eight focus group discussions (FGDs) were conducted among key staff from child protection offices for child abuse, parents and teachers in schools.
- keywords: abuse; abusers; adults; african; analysis; article; authorities; awareness; cameroon; cases; cbr; centres; child abuse; child protection; children; collection; communities; community; convention; crc; cwd; data; depth; development; disabilities; disability; discussions; example; experience; family; female; fgd; findings; focus; forms; government; group; health; human; idi; informants; information; institutions; intellectual; interviews; judicial; justice; key; lack; legal; members; mitigation; nations; need; neglect; nondisclosure; northwest; offices; parents; participants; people; persons; physical; place; policy; population; practice; process; protection; questions; reasons; region; rehabilitation; report; reporting; research; review; rights; risk; schools; sensitisation; services; sexual; sexual abuse; social; staff; strategies; studies; study; support; system; table; teachers; times; training; types; united; victims; violence; welfare; workers; years; young; young adults; youth
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- ajod-1037
- author: None
- title: ajod-1037
- date: None
- words: 10078
- flesch: 50
- summary: Shared themes to both individuals with acquired brain injuries and their significant others Everything has changed The first shared theme discusses experiences of the individuals with ABI adapting to a new reality, losing independence, and as a result, their SOs now taking on the role of caregiver. Dewan, M.C., Rattani, A., Gupta, S., Baticulon, R.E., Hung, Y., Punchak, M. et al., 2018, ‘Estimating the global incidence of traumatic brain injury’, Journal of Neurosurgery 130(4), 1080–1097.
- keywords: abi; abrahamson; access; activities; acute; africa; age; author; better; brain; brain injury; care; challenges; changes; chembeni; communication; community; covid-19; data; difficulties; disability; discharge; education; emotional; et al; experiences; facilities; facility; families; family; female; following; groups; hcp; health; healthcare; home; hospital; hospitalisation; important; improved; individuals; information; injury; interview; journal; language; leedy; like; likely; loss; member; month; need; new; nkomo; ntsiea; ormrod; p02; p03; pandemic; participants; people; physical; pillay; positive; post; pretoria; professionals; progress; qualitative; recovery; rehabilitation; research; result; return; services; significant; so01; so02; social; sos; south; speech; stroke; studies; study; support; themes; time; transition; use; villa; webster; work
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- ajod-1040
- author: None
- title: ajod-1040
- date: None
- words: 7812
- flesch: 54
- summary: This was a descriptive qualitative study using phenomenological principles as the study aimed to describe the experiences of family caregivers looking after other family members with dysphagia. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2017.V107I7.10562 Namasivayam-MacDonald, A.M. & Shune, S.E., 2018, ‘The burden of dysphagia on family caregivers of the elderly: A systematic review’, Geriatrics 3(2), 30.
- keywords: able; activities; adults; africa; analysis; aspects; authors; caregivers; caring; classification; collection; counselling; daily; data; diet; different; disability; dysphagia; emotional; environmental; experience; factors; family; figure; findings; framework; function; head; health; healthcare; home; icf; impact; important; international; interview; johannesburg; loved; management; members; model; need; participant; participation; party; patient; people; personal; qol; representation; research; results; scarinci; significant; social; south; studies; study; team; terms; themes; time; tpd; unable; understanding; use; visual
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- ajod-1045
- author: None
- title: ajod-1045
- date: None
- words: 6539
- flesch: 42
- summary: Other resilience studies (see Theron 2017; Van Breda 2017) also reported the significance of education as a resilience enabler for South African black youth. In this study, meaningful interactions with peers emerged as resilience factors for learners presenting with SLD.
- keywords: adversities; adversity; african; article; assistants; caregivers; child; children; community; competence; confidence; context; contextual; critical; cyrm-28; data; department; development; disabilities; disability; ecological; education; enabling; factors; functioning; health; individual; items; johannesburg; journal; l.c; learners; learning; liebenberg; lsen; measure; needs; parents; people; positive; psychological; psychology; relationships; research; resilience; resilience resources; resources; respondents; results; review; risk; role; schools; self; sense; sld; social; specific; spirituality; statistical; students; studies; study; support; table; theron; ungar; university; van; youth; youth resilience
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- ajod-1046
- author: None
- title: ajod-1046
- date: None
- words: 6604
- flesch: 43
- summary: Consistent with the results of the studies of the SPARCLE project (Arnaud et al. 2008; Dickinson et al. 2007), a significant negative association between the intensity of pain and the QOL in child CP was found. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijdhd-2014-0024 Brehaut, J.C., Kohen, D.E., Raina, P., Walter, S.D., Russell, D.J., Swinton, M. et al., 2004, ‘The health of primary caregivers of children with cerebral palsy : How does it compare with that of other Canadian caregivers?’, Pediatrics 114(2), e182–191. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.114.2.e182 Carlon, S., Taylor, N., Dodd, K. & Shields, N., 2012, ‘Differences in habitual physical activity levels of young people with cerebral palsy and their typically developing peers: A systematic review’, Disability and Rehabilitation 35(8), 647–655.
- keywords: adolescents; age; altered; approach; arabic; assessment; cerebral; cerebral palsy; child neurology; children; chronic; classification; communication; cp qol; data; department; design; developmental; disability; disorders; et al; factors; faculty; family; function; functioning; health; higher; hospital; icf; impairment; intensity; international; journal; level; life; literature; lower; mean; medicine; motor; neurology; pain; palsy; palsy quality; parents; participation; physical; predictive; qol; qol total; quality; questionnaire; rehabilitation; research; results; review; sahloul; school; score; self; social; sousse; studies; study; table; total; tunisia; university; use; verbal; version; waters; years
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- ajod-1058
- author: None
- title: ajod-1058
- date: None
- words: 7224
- flesch: 35
- summary: https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018319867593 King, G., Law, M., King, S., Hurley, P., Rosenbaum, P., Hanna, S. et al., 2004, Children’s assessment of participation and enjoyment and preferences for activities of children, Psychological Corporation, San Antonio, TX. Kropiwnick, J.O., Elphick, J. & Elphick, R., 2014, ‘Standing by themselves: Caregivers’ strategies to ensure the right to education for children with disabilities in Orange Farm, South Africa’, Childhood 21, 1–15. Law, M., Hanna, S., Anaby, D., Kertoy, M., King, G. & Xu, L., 2014, ‘Health-related quality of life of children with physical disabilities: A longitudinal study’, BMC Pediatrics 14(1), 26. As far as leisure activities are concerned, children who were reported to be more ambulant (Table 2) participated in a variety of recreational activities such as football or playing on their own or with their toys or with other children in the street.
- keywords: activities; adl; africa; age; analysis; area; assistance; bio; caregivers; centre; cerebral; cerebral palsy; children; classification; community; daily; data; department; developmental; disabilities; disability; district; donald; education; et al; family; findings; health; healthcare; home; household; informal; interviews; journal; leisure; level; life; limpopo; living; medicine; modimolle; mookgophong; neurology; palsy; participants; participation; patterns; physical; play; pretoria; primary; process; qualitative; recreational; related; research; results; rural; saturation; school; sciences; self; services; social; south; statistics; statssa; study; sub; table; themes; years
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- ajod-106
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 8735
- flesch: 48
- summary: The media also need to consider the way in which they portray people with albinism (Ekurhuleni declaration on the rights of persons with Albinism 2013) Results have implications for schools, disability units at universities, and albinism societies in terms of opening up channels of communication between people with albinism and the general public and fostering knowledge and awareness thereof.
- keywords: affected; africa; albinism; albinos; analysis; article; attitudes; beliefs; black; challenges; child; children; community; condition; cultural; data; deal; development; different; difficult; disabilities; disability; discrimination; example; experience; eyes; fact; family; findings; following; friends; goffman; groups; hair; herek; human; identity; individual; influence; interaction; knowledge; need; negative; non; normal; order; othering; participants; participation; people; persons; population; press; psychological; qualitative; racial; research; results; rights; sampling; self; skin; social; society; south; statement; stereotypes; stigma; students; study; support; understanding; university; use; views; way; white; woman; work
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- ajod-1063
- author: None
- title: ajod-1063
- date: None
- words: 8021
- flesch: 41
- summary: The caregiver participants noticed that persons with schizophrenia experience problems keeping the conversation going which impacts their participation in IADLs requiring verbal expression at home and in the community. Therefore, they should be aware that persons with schizophrenia experience different personal barriers, such as cognitive problems, disorganisation in IADLs and decreased motivation.
- keywords: access; activities; affected; analysis; association; author; barriers; behaviours; caregivers; case; categories; category; cognitive; collection; community; consent; daily; data; day; decreased; design; different; disorders; district; effects; experienced; financial; findings; food; functioning; health; hindrances; iadls; individual; information; instrumental; interaction; interviews; isolation; journal; kigali; knowledge; lack; limited; living; management; medication; mental; motivation; negative; occupational; opromamer; participants; participation; people; personal; persons; poor; preparation; problems; process; qualitative; reported; research; rwanda; schizophrenia; self; shopping; skills; social; step; study; support; symptoms; theme; therapy; time; transcription; work
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- ajod-1067
- author: None
- title: ajod-1067
- date: None
- words: 7706
- flesch: 40
- summary: Abstract Background: The study is conducted to investigate whether curriculum reform for learners with special education needs (SEN) is taking place in Zambia. Objectives: The study objective were to investigate the extent to which curriculum had been reformed to facilitate the inclusion of children with SEN in Zambia; and determine stakeholders understanding of inclusive education policy, to evaluate the success of an inclusive programme in supporting the full inclusion of learners with SEN. Method: This study used a mixed method research design which involved data collection in seven provinces of Zambia. This article is based on a study that investigated the extent to which inclusive education policy for children with disabilities had been implemented in Zambia since 1997.
- keywords: africa; analysis; article; authors; bronfenbrenner; capacity; children; collected; collection; common; curriculum; curriculum implementation; curriculum reform; data; design; development; disabilities; disability; documents; ecological; education; education curriculum; education policy; effective; extent; focus; framework; government; group; implementation; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive curriculum; inclusive education; information; international; interviews; journal; learners; learning; limited; main; mainstream; methods; ministry; mixed; needs; new; notes; onwuegbuzie; open; participants; policy; practice; provinces; provision; qualitative; quality; questionnaires; reform; research; researchers; respondents; results; school; sen; social; south; special; special education; stakeholders; statement; students; study; support; systems; teachers; themes; theory; time; understanding; zambia
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- ajod-1073
- author: None
- title: ajod-1073
- date: None
- words: 6644
- flesch: 35
- summary: Acquiring leadership skills through leisure education programmes may be particularly effective for youth with disabilities to gain confidence in their leadership abilities. The current study forms part of a bigger project which argues that leisure education programmes can be used to promote leadership development.
- keywords: activities; activity; africa; approach; capacity; challenges; communities; community; consensus; context; contribution; current; daily; data; delphi; developing; development; disability; education; education programmes; elements; expert; feasible; guidelines; health; influence; information; journal; knowledge; leadership; leadership development; leadership skills; learning; leisure; leisure activities; leisure education; living; method; national; opportunities; panel; participants; peers; people; physical disabilities; programmes; recreation; research; role; round; school; sharing; sivan; skills; social; sports; study; support; table; theme; training; university; world; young; youth; youth development; youth leadership
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- ajod-1079
- author: None
- title: ajod-1079
- date: None
- words: 303
- flesch: 33
- summary: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v12i0.1079 Note: DOI of original article published: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v11i0.807 Correction Corrigendum: Evaluating the awareness and knowledge of dyslexia among primary school teachers in Tshwane District, South Africa Mary M. Makgato, Monicca Leseyane-Kgari, Madoda Cekiso, Itani P. Mandende, Rose Masha Published: 09 May 2023 Copyright: About the Author(s) Mary M. Makgato Department of Applied Languages, Faculty of Humanities, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa Monicca Leseyane-Kgari Department of Applied Languages, Faculty of Humanities, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa Madoda Cekiso Department of Applied Languages, Faculty of Humanities, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa Itani P. Mandende Department of Applied Languages, Faculty of Humanities, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa Rose Masha Department of Applied Languages, Faculty of Humanities, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa Citation Makgato, M.M., Leseyane-Kgari, M., Cekiso, M., Mandende, I.P. & Masha, R., 2023, ‘Corrigendum: Evaluating the awareness and knowledge of dyslexia among primary school teachers in Tshwane District, South Africa’, African Journal of Disability 12(0), a1079.
- keywords: africa; faculty; south; technology; tshwane; tshwane university
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- ajod-108
- author: None
- title: ajod-108
- date: None
- words: 3882
- flesch: 14
- summary: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17290376.2010.9724973 Claussen, J., Kandyomunda, B. & Jareg, P., 2005, Evaluation of the community based rehabilitation programme in Uganda, Norwegian Association of the Disabled , viewed 12 June 2014, from http://www.norad.no/en/tools-and-publications/publications/publication?key=117376 Daumerie, B. & Madsen, L.E., 2010, ‘The effects of a very young age structure in Uganda: A country case study’, in The shape of things to come series, Population Action International, Washington DC , viewed 14 November 2013, from http://populationaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/SOTC_Uganda_CCS.pdf Dube, K.A., 2005, Participation of disabled people in the PRSP/PEAP process in Uganda, Samaita consultancy and programme design , viewed 14 November 2013, from http://r4d.dfid.gov.uk/PDF/Outputs/Disability/PolicyProject_uganda_prsp.pdf Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, 2009, Disability is not inability repor t, viewed 12 November 2013, from http://www.afri-can.org/Scanning%20Project/Education/KIN%20PARTNERS/LIFE-LONG%20LEARNING/Disability%20Is%20Not%20Inability%20by%20FHRI.pdf Government of Uganda, 2010, Uganda’s initial status report 2010: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Government of Uganda, Kampala, Uganda. Groce, N., Kett, M., Lang, R. & Trani, J.-F., 2011, ‘Disability and poverty: The need for a more nuanced understanding of implications for development policy and practice’, Third World Quarterly 32(8), 1493–1513. Comparable to other developing countries, Uganda lacks disability data for monitoring and evaluating disability interventions’ policy.
- keywords: access; aids; bank; challenges; children; community; convention; countries; data; development; disabilities; disability; disabled; economic; education; functioning; global; government; health; health organization; hiv; icf; ilo; international; june; lang; level; mdgs; mitra; murangira; nations; needs; norwegian; november; organization; people; persons; policies; policy; poverty; programmes; progress; pwds; rehabilitation; report; republic; research; rights; social; special; statistics; training; uganda; united; university; world; world bank; world health
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- ajod-1081
- author: None
- title: ajod-1081
- date: None
- words: 5629
- flesch: 43
- summary: Abstract Introduction Research methods and design Results Discussion Conclusion Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Robert Ngarambe Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda Jean Baptiste Sagahutu Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda Assuman Nuhu Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda David K. Tumusiime Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda Department of Rehabilitation, The Regional Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Engineering and eHealth, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda Citation Ngarambe, R., Sagahutu, J.B., Nuhu, A. & Tumusiime, D.K., 2022, ‘The status and use of prosthetic devices by persons with lower limb amputation in Rwanda’, African Journal of Disability 11(0), a1081. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v11i0.1081 Original Research The status and use of prosthetic devices by persons with lower limb amputation in Rwanda Robert Ngarambe, Jean Baptiste Sagahutu, Assuman Nuhu, David K. Tumusiime Received: 21 May 2022; Accepted: 12 Sept. 2022; Published: 09 Dec. 2022 Copyright: © 2022.
- keywords: amputation; areas; assistive; assistive devices; association; category; cost; countries; data; devices; disabilities; disability; economic; education; et al; findings; government; health; high; income; international; journal; knee; level; life; limb; lower; majority; mobility; n =; national; number; participants; persons; plla; possession; prostheses; prosthetic; prosthetic devices; quality; rehabilitation; repair; research; results; rwanda; sciences; significant; smith; social; socio; source; status; study; technology; university
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- ajod-1084
- author: None
- title: ajod-1084
- date: None
- words: 5493
- flesch: 36
- summary: Low- and middle-income countries often cannot prioritise prosthesis services because of strained resources, no access to prosthesis materials, and a lack of established models of prosthesis provision, leading to an estimated 29m individuals in resource-limited environments that are in need of orthotic and prosthetic services (Harkins et al. 2013; https://doi.org/10.1016/S0003-9993(96)90236-1 Donnelley, C.A., Shirley, C., Von Kaeppler, E., Hetherington, A., Albright, P.D., Morshed, S. et al., 2021, ‘Cost-analyses of prosthetic devices: A systematic review’, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 34(4), 202–212. Donnelley, C.A., Von Kaeppler, E.P., Hetherington, A., Shirley, C., Haonga, B.T., Challa, S.T. et al., 2022, ‘Cost-effectiveness analysis of prosthesis provision for patients with transfemoral amputation in Tanzania’, Prosthetics and Orthotics International 46(5), 523–531.
- keywords: access; amputation; analysis; authors; barriers; burden; california; caregivers; challenges; cost; countries; data; december; department; disability; donnelley; et al; expectations; family; financial; francisco; global; healthcare; impact; income; institute; international; interviews; january; journal; limb; limitations; long; low; lower; need; orthopaedic; orthotics; participants; patients; people; persons; perspectives; prosthesis; prosthesis provision; prosthetists; providers; provision; qualitative; quality; record; recruitment; rehabilitation; research; resource; san; services; social; states; study; support; surgeons; surgery; tanzania; tfa; thematic; transfemoral; united; university
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- ajod-1085
- author: None
- title: ajod-1085
- date: None
- words: 9536
- flesch: 26
- summary: Disability stigma as a driver of structural hermeneutical injustice The distinct nature of disability stigma is premised on an assumption of differential power and knowledge between persons with and without disabilities. Abstract Introduction Research methods and design Results Insights from the data Discussion Conclusion Acknowledgements References Footnote About the Author(s) Esther Breffka Department of Clinical Speech and Language Studies, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Technology, Maths and Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Caroline Jagoe Department of Clinical Speech and Language Studies, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Susan P. Murphy Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Technology, Maths and Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Belestie B. Tsegaw Department of Public Health, Faculty of Public Health, Health Care, Addis Continental Institute of Public Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Department of Psychology, Faculty of Behavioral Science, Social Studies and Humanities, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia Citation Breffka, E., Jagoe, C., Murphy, S.P. & Tsegaw, B.B., 2023, ‘Restricted participation: Drivers, experiences and implications of disability stigma in Ethiopia’, African Journal of Disability 12(0), a1085. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v12i0.1085 Note: Additional supporting information may be found in the online version of this article as Online Appendix 1. Original Research Restricted participation: Drivers, experiences and implications of disability stigma in Ethiopia Esther Breffka, Caroline Jagoe, Susan P. Murphy, Belestie B. Tsegaw Received: 28 May 2022; Accepted: 10 Oct. 2022; Published: 23 Jan. 2023 Copyright: © 2023.
- keywords: 2019a; adults; africa; analysis; approach; areas; article; authors; awareness; barriers; beliefs; capacity; causes; cbid; collection; communities; community; data; department; development; disabilities; disability; disability rights; disability stigma; documents; dpos; drivers; dublin; environmental; epistemic; et al; ethiopia; evidence; exclusion; experiences; factors; findings; focus; following; fricker; gender; health; hermeneutical; human; icf; inclusion; inclusive; influence; injustice; insights; internalised; international; interviews; knowledge; language; legal; life; literature; local; meaning; meetings; misconceptions; mostert; narrative; negative; non; norms; opportunities; organization; participants; participation; people; personal; persons; policies; power; process; research; restrictions; results; review; rights; rohwerder; self; services; social; society; specific; stangl; stigma; studies; study; support; survey; systematic; systems; table; university; van; women
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- ajod-1089
- author: None
- title: ajod-1089
- date: None
- words: 3661
- flesch: 38
- summary: Abstract Background The implications of differential exclusion from education Challenges for disability-related research in Africa African Renaissance as a premise for reimagining disability studies in Africa Conclusion Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Lieketseng Y. Ned Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Centre for Disability and Rehabilitation Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa Kudakwashe Dube Africa Disability Alliance, Pretoria, South Africa Leslie Swartz Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa Citation Ned, L.Y., Dube, K. & Swartz, L., 2022, ‘Challenges and opportunities of centring the African voice in disability research’, African Journal of Disability 11(0), a1089. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v11i0.1089 Opinion Paper Challenges and opportunities of centring the African voice in disability research Lieketseng Y. Ned, Kudakwashe Dube, Leslie Swartz Received: 31 May 2022; Accepted: 11 Aug. 2022; Published: 31 Oct. 2022 Copyright: African Renaissance as a premise for reimagining disability studies in Africa As we have noted, the field of disability studies is reflective of geopolitical and broader power relations, and there is limited work which centres doing disability research from the lens of African societies (Ned 2022).
- keywords: african; african renaissance; approach; article; authors; cape; centring; challenges; conference; countries; covid-19; critical; development; disabilities; disability; disability research; disability studies; education; evidence; exclusion; global; health; ideas; ideational; implications; journal; key; knowledge; lives; mji; ned; new; north; opportunities; pandemic; paper; people; practices; renaissance; research; social; society; south; space; studies; study; swartz; thinking; town; voices; ways; world
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- ajod-1100
- author: None
- title: ajod-1100
- date: None
- words: 2652
- flesch: 38
- summary: Physical activity policy briefs are not uncommon. However, as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic, a gap exists on policy guiding physical activity participation and recommendations during COVID-19, country-, culturally- and context-specific.
- keywords: activity; adolescents; africa; authors; brief; cape; cape town; chetty; children; community; covid-19; department; development; disabilities; disability; et al; exercise; faculty; group; health; health sciences; naidoo; pandemic; period; physical; physical activity; policy; policy brief; process; public; recommendations; research; school; sciences; smith; social; south; sport; step; university; week; young
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- ajod-1101
- author: None
- title: ajod-1101
- date: None
- words: 9341
- flesch: 50
- summary: Conclusion: Future research should focus on how to enhance support for mothers and their children during each of the three phases of autism diagnosis: prior, during and following their children’s autism diagnoses. Discussion In the context of the current study, autism diagnosis is a complex process that does not occur exclusively within the medical model of disability.
- keywords: acceptance; african; age; american; analysis; anxiety; approach; appropriate; article; asd; authors; autism; autism diagnosis; autism spectrum; behaviour; care; challenges; children; clasquin; communities; community; complex; cultural; culture; data; developmental; diagnosis; disability; disorder; divorced; early; eds; education; elders; et al; experiences; extrinsic; factors; families; family; father; health; hospital; information; intervention; interviews; johnson; journal; knowledge; lack; language; later; lengthy; m.g; meaning; medical; members; methods; mothers; parents; participants; people; perspective; pretoria; prior; process; professionals; qualitative; reactions; related; relationships; religious; research; review; role; sage; school; single; social; south; special; spectrum; study; support; theme; time; traditional; ubuntu; understanding; university
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- ajod-1103
- author: None
- title: ajod-1103
- date: None
- words: 8484
- flesch: 36
- summary: The study demonstrates that a supportive institutional culture is necessary to give effect to disability policies and legislation and to optimise the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the workplace. Institutional policies related to disability In this section, I cite examples from institutional policies that were applicable at the time, particularly those which are apparently well-meaning and beneficial but which constitute subtle or embedded discrimination against persons with disabilities.
- keywords: ableism; access; accommodation; act; action; activities; affirmative; africa; application; appropriate; article; author; autoethnographic; available; aversive; brain; budget; camp; candidates; childhood; committee; conference; culture; data; day; decision; depression; disabilities; disability; disability policy; disablism; discrimination; doctor; education; effect; employees; employment; evident; example; executive; expenditure; experiences; faculty; figure; following; framework; frontal; greater; head; higher; human; impact; impairment; implementation; individuals; information; injury; institution; job; journal; life; line; living; lobe; loss; management; managers; measures; medical; need; nonobvious; occupational; panel; performance; persons; policies; policy; possible; post; prejudice; psychological; reasonable; reasonable accommodation; relationship; representation; republic; research; rights; school; selection; self; social; south; specific; study; surgeon; terms; travel; university; witwatersrand; years
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- ajod-1106
- author: None
- title: ajod-1106
- date: None
- words: 8969
- flesch: 32
- summary: Floyd, K.K. & Judge, S.L., 2012, ‘The efficacy of assistive technology on reading comprehension for postsecondary students with learning disabilities’, Assistive Technology Outcomes and Benefits 8(1), 48–64. Forgrave, K.E., 2002, ‘Assistive technology: Empowering students with learning disabilities’, The Clearing House 75(3), 122–126. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2017.1325456 Harniss, M., Samant Raja, D. & Matter, R., 2015, ‘Assistive technology access and service delivery in resource-limited environments: Introduction to a special issue of disability and rehabilitation: Assistive technology’, Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology 10(4), 267–270.
- keywords: absence; academic; access; accessibility; achievements; adhd; affirmation; africa; agency; analysis; approach; article; assistive technology; attention; capability; challenges; comprehension; conditions; conversion; data; design; development; devices; difficulties; disabilities; disability; dyslexia; education; emotional; environment; exam; experiences; face; factors; financial; findings; framework; functioning; funding; health; higher; human; independence; individual; inequalities; information; institutional; interviews; journal; judge; lack; learning; learning disabilities; lecturers; limited; low; maclachlan; main; members; needs; nsfas; participants; people; performance; personal; perspectives; physical; policy; poor; post; provision; reading; research; resources; role; self; services; skills; social; software; south; special; specific; speech; struggle; students; study; support; tasks; teaching; text; training; understanding; university; use; useful; ways; writing
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- ajod-1112
- author: None
- title: ajod-1112
- date: None
- words: 7545
- flesch: 52
- summary: The issue of long distance is prominently featured as a reason for nonuse of healthcare facilities, as well as poor access in other healthcare access studies for persons with disabilities. Yet various authors have revealed that access to healthcare remains an unmet need in South Africa, and this is worse for poor persons with disabilities in rural areas (Grut et al. 2012; Moodley & Rose 2015; Mutwali & Rose 2019; Vergunst et al. 2015, 2017; Visagie & Schneider 2014).
- keywords: accessibility; accessing; africa; areas; article; author; bad; barriers; cape; challenges; clinic; cofimvaba; community; data; difficulties; disabilities; disability; drivers; experiences; facilities; facility; factors; healthcare; healthcare services; hospital; impairments; inaccessible; information; interviews; isixhosa; journal; long; male; mobility; mobility impairments; needs; nonuse; old; p001; participants; people; persons; poor; population; poverty; problems; public; reasons; rehabilitation; research; roads; rural; services; south; south africa; stellenbosch; studies; study; swartz; taxi; themes; time; toilets; town; transport; university; use; vergunst; visagie; wheelchair; years
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- ajod-1114
- author: None
- title: ajod-1114
- date: None
- words: 11694
- flesch: 47
- summary: Direct costs include those that are specific to impairment (such as assistive devices, therapeutic services, accessible transport and caregiving), while indirect costs are those related to a loss of income or opportunity because of the demands of caregiving when appropriate child care is too expensive, inadequate or absent (Banks, Kuper & Polack 2017; Banks et al. 2021; White et al. 2018). (CG6, 53 years old, Gauteng) Participants indicated that the onerous process of trying to access the CDG was ‘too much’ for some other parents of disabled children whom they knew.
- keywords: access; act; additional; adults; africa; application; article; assistance; author; available; beneficiaries; benign; cape; care dependency; caregivers; cash; cdg; cg2; cg3; cg4; childhood; children; collection; costs; covid-19; critical; data; department; dependency; development; disabilities; disability; disabled; discussion; doctor; dsd; early; eligible; ethical; exclusion; expensive; experiences; families; fgd; focus; funds; gauteng; government; grant; group; health; important; inclusion; income; intervention; interviews; journal; kelly; kids; lack; level; long; low; mckenzie; money; month; mother; needs; neglect; old; parents; parliament; participants; people; person; perspectives; philpott; policy; poverty; primary; process; protection; public; receipt; related; research; sassa; school; services; social; society; son; south; south africa; specific; studies; study; support; swartz; system; time; town; trafford; transfers; transport; university; western; western cape; work; working; years; years old
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- ajod-1115
- author: None
- title: ajod-1115
- date: None
- words: 8354
- flesch: 37
- summary: Service provisions should be aligned to enforce the right to respite care and other rights such as the right to participation as elaborated in the CRPD, as has been conceptualised, for example, in respite care services in New Zealand (Ministry of Health 2017). The results provide clarity on how respite care services are delivered.
- keywords: 2017b; access; adults; africa; behaviour; best; break; btc; cape; care; care services; caregivers; challenging; chan; children; community; criteria; cultural; data; department; development; disabilities; disability; disabled; et al; evidence; example; families; family; february; formal; frameworks; funding; grey; guidelines; half; health; health services; hics; holmes; home; impacts; inclusion; informal; information; intellectual; intellectual disabilities; journal; learning; literature; lmics; mcconkey; mcconkey et; mental; merriman; ministry; models; n =; national; needs; network; norms; offering; people; persons; policy; population; practice; principles; providers; provision; quality; recipients; research; respite care; results; review; rights; services; settings; short; social; sources; south; southby; standards; study; support; table; town; university; use
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- ajod-1116
- author: None
- title: ajod-1116
- date: None
- words: 8507
- flesch: 50
- summary: Quality of stroke rehabilitation seems to be better in these HICs because of the availability of data and evaluation of stroke rehabilitation services. This study therefore aimed to explore stroke healthcare professionals views and experiences of the structure and process of stroke rehabilitation in three selected hospitals in Ghana in order to ensure interventions are implemented to improve the quality of stroke rehabilitation services locally.
- keywords: accra; acute; analysis; approach; authors; availability; available; baatiema; basis; bed; better; capacity; care; data; development; disability; discharge; et al; follow; general; ghana; hcps; health; healthcare; home; hospitals; inpatient; interview; journal; limited; management; mdt; medical; nurse; outcome; outpatient; participants; patients; physiotherapist; probe; process; professionals; protocol; qualitative; quality; recommendations; rehabilitation; rehabilitation services; research; review; services; sessions; staff; stroke; stroke care; stroke patients; stroke rehabilitation; stroke unit; structure; study; system; team; themes; therapists; unit; views; wards; week; work
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- ajod-1119
- author: None
- title: ajod-1119
- date: None
- words: 10447
- flesch: 36
- summary: Abstract Introduction Research methods and design Results Discussion Conclusion Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Mary Wickenden Participation, Inclusion and Social Change Cluster, Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, United Kingdom Tim G.B. Hart Developmental, Capable and Ethical State Research Division, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa Stephen J. Thompson Participation, Inclusion and Social Change Cluster, Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, United Kingdom Yul D. Davids Developmental, Capable and Ethical State Research Division, Human Sciences Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa Mercy Ngungu Impact Centre Research Division, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa Citation Wickenden, M., Hart, T.G.B., Thompson, S.J., Davids, Y.D. & Ngungu, M., 2023, ‘How did South Africans with disabilities experience COVID-19? Original Research How did South Africans with disabilities experience COVID-19?
- keywords: access; africa; age; aspects; authors; available; care; challenges; concerns; coronavirus; countries; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; data; development; different; difficulty; disabilities; disability; disaster; economic; education; emotional; employment; evidence; example; experiences; feeling; financial; food; general; government; grant; group; hart; health; home; human; hungry; ida; impact; impairments; inclusion; inclusive; income; infection; information; institute; international; interventions; journal; june; levels; limited; living; lockdown; management; mckinney; methods; months; n =; nations; necessary; needs; negative; online; opds; organisations; pandemic; participants; people; perceptions; persons; policy; proportion; questions; regulations; related; reported; research; respondents; responses; results; rights; risk; sample; services; situation; social; south; south africa; specific; state; studies; study; support; survey; time; united; wickenden; women; work; world; years
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- ajod-112
- author: None
- title: ajod-112
- date: None
- words: 7573
- flesch: 39
- summary: Research focussing on children with disabilities in developing countries suggests that 90% of these children do not attend school and are thus less likely to engage in other opportunities for social participation (Global Partnership for Children 2012). Children with disabilities are vulnerable to limited participation, which results from the interaction between children and their physical and social environments (Forsyth & Jarvis 2002; Law et al. 2006).
- keywords: actions; activities; addition; barriers; burden; care; cbr; cerebral; cerebral palsy; child; children; church; community; community participation; condition; data; disabilities; disability; education; emotional; environmental; factors; families; family; financial; friends; future; health; help; home; internal; king; lack; law; lusaka; members; mothers; need; old; old child; palsy; participants; participation; patterns; people; personal; physical; play; predictors; qualitative; recommendations; rehabilitation; research; researchers; school; services; social; social participation; son; staff; strategies; study; support; terms; year; zambia
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- ajod-1123
- author: None
- title: ajod-1123
- date: None
- words: 8925
- flesch: 37
- summary: Disability management is the responsibility of the employer’s top management to ensure adequate workspaces by adhering to legislation in the employer’s policy that specifies the relevant practices. The single-case study was bounded, firstly, by the particular group of university employees with disabilities and, secondly, the university policy of disability management regarding practices (Merriam 1998:27).
- keywords: able; access; accommodations; african; albinism; analysis; appraisal; attitudes; beliefs; bodied; case; colleagues; conditions; coping; data; department; design; disabilities; disability; disability management; disease; education; employees; employer; employment; encounters; environment; et al; experiences; folkman; government; health; impairment; interviews; journal; labour; lazarus; line; literature; low; management; management practices; managers; mental; mobility; motor; negative; nxumalo; office; p10; p13; paraplegia; participant; particular; people; person; physical; practices; procedures; process; progressive; project; psychological; qualitative; republic; research; rsa; self; shengli; software; south; south african; splintered; staff; stress; stressful; study; support; things; university; unresponsive; vision; waterfield; work; workplace
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- ajod-1124
- author: None
- title: ajod-1124
- date: None
- words: 10942
- flesch: 33
- summary: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v9i0.735 Aldersey, H.M., Francis, G.L., Haines, S.J. & Chiu, C.Y., 2017, ‘Family quality of life in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’, Journal of Policy & Practice in Intellectual Disabilities 14(1), 78–86. https://doi.org/10.1111/jppi.12189 Aldersey, H.M., Turnbull, A.P. & Turnbull, H.R., 2016, ‘Family support in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo’, Journal of Policy & Practice in Intellectual Disabilities 13(1), 23–32. https://doi.org/10.1111/jppi.12143 Annink, A., 2017, ‘Using the research journal during qualitative data collection in a cross-cultural context’, Entrepreneurship Research Journal 7(1), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.18357/ijcyfs94201818641 Kyzar, K.B., Turnbull, A.P., Summers, J.A. & Gomez, V.A., 2012, ‘The relationship of family support to family outcomes: A synthesis of key findings from research on severe disability’, Research & Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities 37(1), 31–44.
- keywords: african; aldersey; analysis; approaches; appropriate; attitudes; authors; awareness; balcells; beliefs; braun; brown; care; cbr; challenges; children; clarke; community; contexts; countries; data; developmental; disabilities; disability; disability support; education; employment; et al; ethiopia; ethiopian families; families; family; family quality; family relationships; fathers; female; findings; fqol; government; h.m; health; important; inclusion; income; information; intellectual; intellectual disabilities; international; interviews; jansen; journal; life; limited; local; low; members; mothers; need; negative; officer; parents; participants; participation; people; perspectives; positive; professional; providers; qualitative; quality; raising; rehabilitation; relationships; religion; religious; research; resources; review; role; rural; school; sciences; self; siblings; social; special; spirituality; stigma; studies; study; sufficiency; support; support providers; time; training; turnbull; understanding; university; van; vuuren; work; zuna
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- ajod-1127
- author: None
- title: ajod-1127
- date: None
- words: 4639
- flesch: 32
- summary: Literature is lacking from Africa explicating the challenges of conducting research with people with ID, neither is there literature documenting experiences of ID researchers and lessons learnt, which can inform and guide ID inclusive research on the continent. It has the aim of promoting worldwide research and knowledge sharing and building of collaborations among researchers working on ID research (Timmons 2013).
- keywords: advocacy; africa; article; author; bigby; capri; challenges; coetzee; conducting; countries; data; developmental; disabilities; disability; ethics; exclusion; global; health; human; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive research; intellectual; intellectual disability; journal; kahonde; lack; literature; martino; needs; participants; people; policy; process; research; researchers; review; rights; schormans; scior; self; skills; social; south; south africa; stigma; training; voice; walmsley
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- ajod-1133
- author: None
- title: ajod-1133
- date: None
- words: 7356
- flesch: 33
- summary: Baffoe, M., 2013, ‘Stigma, discrimination & marginalisation: Gateways to oppression of persons with disabilities in Ghana, West Africa’, Journal of Educational and Social Research 3(1), 187–198. Banks, L.M., Kuper, H. & Polack, S., 2017, ‘Poverty and disability in low-and middle-income countries: A systematic review’, PLoS One 12(12), e0189996. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189996 Bernard, H.R. & Ryan, G.W., 2010, Analysing qualitative data: Systematic approaches, Sage, Los Angeles, CA. Bonaccio, S., Connelly, C.E., Gellatly, I.R., Jetha, A. & Martin Ginis, K.A., 2020, ‘The participation of people with disabilities in the workplace across the employment cycle: Employer concerns and research evidence’, Journal of Business and Psychology 35(2), 135–158. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-018-9602-5 Brisenden, S., 1998, ‘Independent living and the medical model of disability’, in T. Shakespeare (eds.), The disability re ader: Social science perspectives, pp.
- keywords: activities; africa; agency; analysis; barriers; cbr; community; countries; data; development; disabilities; disability; economic; education; effective; employment; empowerment; et al; evidence; experiences; findings; framework; generating; health; human; igas; income; individuals; information; international; intervention; interviews; job; journal; labour; lack; level; likely; limited; living; london; market; maslow; motivation; necessary; needs; opportunities; organisation; paper; participants; participation; people; persons; population; poverty; products; qualitative; rehabilitation; research; resources; review; sage; self; sesotho; sheltered; skills; social; society; socio; south; state; status; strategies; study; theory; tinta; training; university; use; workshop; zimmerman
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- ajod-1135
- author: None
- title: ajod-1135
- date: None
- words: 8806
- flesch: 38
- summary: https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD001919.pub3 Forster, A., Dickerson, J., Young, J., Patel, A., Kalra, L., Nixon, J. et al., 2013, ‘A structured training programme for caregivers of inpatients after stroke (TRACS): https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61603-7 Forster, A., Dickerson, J., Melbourn, A., Steadman, J., Wittink, M., Young, J. et al., 2015, ‘The development and implementation of the structured training programme for caregivers of inpatients after stroke (TRACS) intervention: The London Stroke Carers Training Course Amanda Farrin 6 and on behalf of the TRACS trial collaboration’, Clinical Rehabilitation 29(3), 211–220. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269215514543334 Friedhoff, M. & Schieberle, D., 2007, Praxis des Bobath-Konzepts.
- keywords: access; action; activities; addie; africa; analysis; approach; appropriate; article; attend; authority; burden; cape; care; caregivers; chaiyawat; chws; cigs; clinical; collaborative; community; consensus; cooperative; design; development; different; disability; district; education; et al; evidence; family; forster; group; hcbc; health; health care; healthcare; home; information; inquiry; international; interventions; j. et; journal; key; knowledge; krieger; kulkantrakorn; lack; learner; learning; limited; local; low; manual; mash; mdps; medical; medicine; members; methods; model; mudzi; national; needs; outcomes; patients; phc; pitthayapong; planning; practice; primary; process; professionals; program; rehabilitation; rehabilitation services; research; resources; rural; scheffler; scope; services; setting; skills; south; stellenbosch; step; stroke; stroke rehabilitation; stroke survivors; stroke training; studies; study; support; survivors; table; teaching; time; trainer; training; training program; trial; university; western; workers; yan; zhou
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- ajod-115
- author: Office, Editorial
- title: Acknowledgement to reviewers
- date: 2014-02-04
- words: 381
- flesch: 40
- summary: In an effort to facilitate the selection of appropriate peer reviewers for the African Journal of Disability, we ask that you take a moment to update your electronic portfolio on www.ajod.org for our files, allowing us better access to your areas of interest and expertise, in order to match reviewers with submitted manuscripts. It is good practice as a reviewer to update your personal details regularly to ensure contact with you throughout your professional term as reviewer to the African Journal of Disability.
- keywords: african; details; disability; interest; journal; manuscript; peer; process; publication; reviewer; selection; timely
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- ajod-1155
- author: None
- title: ajod-1155
- date: None
- words: 8732
- flesch: 47
- summary: Abstract Introduction Research methods and design Findings and discussion Conclusion Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Lumka Magidigidi Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Children, Families and Society, Faculty of Community and Health Sciences, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa Nicolette V. Roman Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Children, Families and Society, Faculty of Community and Health Sciences, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa Inge K. Sonn Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Children, Families and Society, Faculty of Community and Health Sciences, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa Citation Magidigidi, L., Roman, N.V. & Sonn, I.K., 2023, ‘Human capabilities of South African parents who have children with developmental disabilities’, African Journal of Disability 12(0), a1155. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v12i0.1155 Project Research Number: HS19/6/44 Original Research Human capabilities of South African parents who have children with developmental disabilities Lumka Magidigidi, Nicolette V. Roman, Inge K. Sonn Received: 10 Oct. 2022; Accepted: 04 May 2023; Published: 19 June 2023 Copyright: © 2023. Department of Social Development (DSD), Department of Women, Children and People with Disabilities (DWCPD) & United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 2012, Violence against children in South Africa.
- keywords: able; access; africa; analysis; approach; article; assistance; authors; bodily; capabilities; capability; cape; caregivers; children; circumstances; community; condition; data; design; developmental; developmental disabilities; disabilities; disability; dsd; education; emotional; experiences; families; family; female; findings; fisantekraal; food; functioning; good; government; grant; groups; health; help; housing; human; human capabilities; impairments; increase; information; integrity; international; journal; kraaifontein; life; likely; living; majority; nations; needs; nussbaum; old; parenting; parents; participants; people; person; physical; population; poverty; qualitative; research; result; sciences; services; social; south; stress; study; support; thematic; themes; time; unicef; united; university; western; women; work; world; year
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- ajod-1157
- author: None
- title: ajod-1157
- date: None
- words: 1945
- flesch: 42
- summary: Here, I reflect on the significance of social support groups as a mother of a child with disabilities. Implications for child development support practices’, Journal of Psychology in Africa 29(1), 87–91.
- keywords: africa; article; author; cauda; challenges; child; children; disabilities; disability; experiences; groups; journal; laufer; makhubele; mothers; paper; parenting; parents; research; rights; sadiki; self; sharing; significance; social; stress; support; tigere
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- ajod-116
- author: None
- title: ajod-116
- date: None
- words: 1596
- flesch: 47
- summary: The popular perception of disability poetry (indeed the popular perception of poetry in general) has favoured the sentimental and the moralistic. At the heart of this collection, then — whether the poets aligned themselves openly with the aims of disability poetry or not — lies a challenge to the normalising discourses of embodiment, an interrogation of the socially constructed nature of our concepts of wellness, ability, beauty, even love.
- keywords: africa; american; bartlett; beauty; black; body; book; collection; disability; embodiment; field; literary; michael; motion; new; northen; poetics; poetry; poets; reader; review; section; south; studies; truth; verb; work
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- ajod-1161
- author: Office, Editorial
- title: Acknowledgement to reviewers
- date: 2022-12-14
- words: 726
- flesch: 35
- summary: Tolbert Julia Biermann Kate A. Sherry Khameer Kidia Khetsiwe P. Masuku Kofi Nseibo Lana van Niekerk Lientjie van Rensburg Lisbet Grut Lizahn G. Cloete Lonwabo L. Godlwana Louise Frenkel Lucia A. Hess-April Luphiwo L. Mduzana Madoda P. Cekiso Madri Engelbrecht Magdalene Simalalo Makomborero A. Bowa Mapheyeledi Motimele Marcia Lyner-Cleophas Margaret M. Wazakili Marguerite Schneider Maria Berghs Marie-Lyne Grenier Mark Harniss Martha Geiger Martin Musengi Mary G. Clasquin-Johnson Maryke Geldenhuys Maximus M. Sefotho Maxwell P. Opoku Md Mahmudul Hasan Meghan S. White Michal Harty Michelle Botha Minerva Rivas Verlade Mpilo Booi Nadia Marie De La V. Souchon Nicola A. Plastow Nicola M. Deghaye Nicole de Wet-Billings Nosipho Makhakhe Ntsikelelo Pefile Nurul H. Rofiah Okechukwu V. Nwokorie Olufemi O. Oyewole Patricia Lund Paula Sterkenburg Peter Ndaa Phoebe Runciman Pierre Damien Turikumana Rabbi Abu-Sadat Rachel Gartz Ramesh Poluru Ronelle Hewetson Rose Richards Rosemary Chimbala-Kalenga Rosemary J. Luger Roy McConkey Rugare J. Mugumbate Samantha Adams Sameera Ayob-Essop Sandra Makwembere Sharifa Moosa Tayob Sharon Moonsamy Sherpard Nyaruwata Shona McDonald Siwe Toto Sonti I. Pilusa Soraya Maart Stephanie C. Pillay Sthembiso Blose Suna Verhoef Sunita J. Kathuria Surona J. Visagie Tania de Villiers Tanya L. Bekker Tasneem Hartley Tawagidu Mohammed Tawanda Makuyana Terry J. Ellapen Theresa Lorenzo Thuli G. Mthembu Tom Shakespeare Tonderai W. Shumba Unati Stemela-Zali Vesper Chisumpa Vic J. McKinney Wisdom K. Mprah Zukiswa Nzo http://www.ajod.org� https://ajod.org https://ajod.org https://ajod.org/index.php/ajod/user https://ajod.org/index.php/ajod/user mailto:publishing@aosis.co.za Acknowledgement to reviewers In an effort to facilitate the selection of appropriate peer reviewers for the African Journal of Disability, we ask that you take a moment to update your electronic portfolio on https://ajod.org for our files, allowing us better access to your areas of interest and expertise, in order to match reviewers with submitted manuscripts.
- keywords: access; acknowledgement; african; appropriate; charles; contact; details; disability; expertise; https://ajod.org/index.php/ajod/user; interest; journal; manuscript; nicola; online; order; peer; process; publication; reviewer; rosemary; selection; timely; user; van; website
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- ajod-1163
- author: None
- title: ajod-1163
- date: None
- words: 8176
- flesch: 45
- summary: This study will help improve teachers’ inclusive classroom pedagogical practices for all learners including those with learning disabilities. Benefits of mainstream class teaching for learners with learning disabilities include positive teacher–student rapport, real-life connections and good use of strategies and modifications (Ford 2013).
- keywords: academic; africa; aids; approaches; article; attention; authors; challenges; children; classrooms; code; curriculum; data; design; different; differentiated; disabilities; disability; education; experiences; findings; florian; hawkins; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive education; individual; information; instruction; interviews; involvement; journal; lack; language; learners; learning; learning disabilities; level; mainstream; mainstream classrooms; methods; multi; needs; order; parental; parents; participant; participation; phasha; policy; practices; primary; qualitative; research; results; schools; south; special; specific; strategies; students; study; support; switching; teachers; teaching; time; triangle; understanding; unesco; university; use; vaal; work; writing
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- ajod-1168
- author: None
- title: ajod-1168
- date: None
- words: 5376
- flesch: 40
- summary: The intersection of deaf identity and disabling hearing loss (DHL) adds a layer to the complex process of identity construction. This paper deviates from the d/Deaf identity dichotomy, revealing a spectrum of deaf identities that AYA forge.
- keywords: adolescents; adulthood; adults; african; article; audiological; aya; bell; bicultural; brunnberg; cape; communication; community; complex; compton; construction; context; crisis; culture; deaf; deaf identity; development; dhl; disability; erikson; exploration; formation; health; hearing; hecht; hoh; identities; identity; identity construction; identity formation; individuals; interventions; journal; jung; kemmery; literature; loss; marcia; mcilroy; personal; processes; psychosocial; rehabilitation; research; review; sciences; self; south; status; storbeck; studies; study; theory; town; understanding; university; young
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- ajod-117
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 1976
- flesch: 48
- summary: High voltage electrical injury is a rare cause of such an outcome and injuries often occur as occupational hazards. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0305-4179(95)00037-C Janjua, S.A., 2002, ‘High voltage electrical injuries’, Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons V12(3), 140–142.
- keywords: amputations; article; authors; bilateral; burns; case; electrical; electricity; enugu; escudero; extent; figure; high; high voltage; hospital; injuries; injury; journal; left; limb; line; lower; nafs; national; nigeria; orthopaedic; rehabilitation; reports; right; severe; studies; tension; treatment; upper; victims; voltage; work; wound
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- ajod-1172
- author: None
- title: ajod-1172
- date: None
- words: 2226
- flesch: 33
- summary: The focus is particularly on the challenges and opportunities of centring African voices in disability research. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v11i0.943 Ned, L.Y., Dube, K. & Swartz, L., 2022, ‘Challenges and opportunities of centring the African voice in disability research’, African Journal of Disability 11(0), a1089. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v11i0.1089 Ohajunwa, C.O., 2022, ‘Local knowledge in inclusive education policies in Africa: informing sustainable outcomes’, African Journal of Disability 11(0), a941.
- keywords: access; africa; article; ats; authors; cape; challenges; communities; conference; disabilities; disability; education; evidence; health; inclusion; inclusive; issue; journal; knowledge; model; ned; ohajunwa; outcomes; people; policies; practice; related; research; south; south africa; special; stroke; study; support; town; transport; university
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- ajod-1177
- author: None
- title: ajod-1177
- date: None
- words: 8089
- flesch: 50
- summary: They recruited older adult participants, in-person, during participants’ routine visits to public healthcare facilities. On the same day and place they went to visit a public healthcare facility, older adult participants took part in a face-to-face interview for this study.
- keywords: access; activities; adults; africa; analysis; article; author; biljon; centres; clinicians; collection; communities; community; data; difficult; discussion; facilities; family; female; field; financial; findings; forms; frequency; friends; gauteng; groups; guide; health; healthcare; home; home life; home places; income; interview; journal; life; life spaces; limited; living; medical; methods; mobility; modes; monthly; n.d; needs; notes; number; occupational; older; older adults; older people; participants; participation; people; places; population; poverty; primary; private; public; qualitative; quality; questions; reach; rehabilitation; research; researchers; results; semi; services; shopping; shops; social; south; south africa; spaces; stellenbosch; structured; study; support; therapy; town; transport; university; urban; use; value; van; visits; walking; weekly; work; world; worship
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- ajod-1178
- author: None
- title: ajod-1178
- date: None
- words: 8896
- flesch: 37
- summary: To this end, a panel of experts in disability studies was assembled to scrutinise the interview guide. In the light of this, Oskouie et al. (2017) suggested that there has been a significant need for more theoretical work to expand context-specific knowledge on disability stigma and discrimination.
- keywords: access; africa; african public; aids; analysis; apartheid; attitudes; barriers; cape; case; categories; challenges; community; constitution; context; data; department; deputy; design; directors; disabilities; disability; discrimination; economic; employability; employers; employment; environment; experts; face; factors; failure; gida; government; guide; health; hiv; human; infrastructural; integration; interview; issues; journal; knowledge; labour; lack; literature; mainstream; mainstream employment; management; managerial; marginalisation; market; medical; mental; model; need; new; organisational; ortlepp; paper; people; persons; physical; provincial; psychosocial; public; public service; pwds; qualitative; question; research; respondents; responses; review; rights; sector; service; significant; sing; social; society; socio; south; south africa; stigma; studies; study; table; thematic; themes; transformation; white; workplace
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- ajod-118
- author: None
- title: ajod-118
- date: None
- words: 3111
- flesch: 54
- summary: He was referred to physiotherapy by the attending doctor to assist with mobilising the patient out of bed and pain management. He reported severe pain in the lower limbs and that he fatigued easily.
- keywords: able; aids; article; assistance; authors; case; examination; feet; hiv; intervention; kamerman; limbs; management; medication; neuropathy; nicholas; november; pad; pain; painful; patients; people; peripheral; physiotherapy; related; sciences; session; severe; south; strategies; study; symptoms; touch; treatment; unable; university; use; vibration; wadley
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- ajod-1185
- author: Office, Editorial
- title: Table of Contents Vol 11 (2022)
- date: 2022-12-31
- words: 2470
- flesch: -64
- summary: A qualitative study Dafne Zuleima Morgado Ramirez, Brenda Nakandi, Robert Ssekitoleko, Louise Ackers, Erisa Mwaka, Laurence Kenney, Cathy Holloway, Maggie Donovan-Hall African Journal of Disability | Vol 11 | a890 | 20 May 2022 Original Research Monitoring disability inclusion: Setting a baseline for South Africa Helen Suich, Marguerite Schneider African Journal of Disability | Vol 11 | a1020 | 27 May 2022 Original Research A path toward disability-inclusive health in Zimbabwe Part 1: A qualitative study on access to healthcare Tracey Smythe, Thubelihle Mabhena, Shepherd Murahwi, Tapiwanashe Kujinga, Hannah Kuper, Simbarashe Rusakaniko African Journal of Disability | Vol 11 | a990 | 30 May 2022 66 73 85 93 105 114 125 138 150 Page i of iv Table of Contents Community Paper The development of a policy brief on physical activity and health in Africa for children and adolescents with disabilities: COVID-19 and beyond Rowena Naidoo, Verusia Chetty, Marie E.M. Young, Phindile E. Mahlalela, Philippe J. Gradidge, Soraya Maart, Dané Coetzee, Brett Smith, Estelle Lambert African Journal of Disability | Vol 11 | a1100 | 15 December 2022 Opinion Paper Oculocutaneous albinism in southern Africa: Historical background, genetic, clinical and psychosocial issues Jennifer G.R. Kromberg, Robyn Kerr African Journal of Disability | Vol 11 | a877 | 14 October 2022 Review Article Services and interventions needed to prevent secondary health conditions throughout the life span of people with spinal cord injury, South Africa Sonti I. Pilusa, Hellen Myezwa, Joanne Potterton African Journal of Disability | Vol 11 | a881 | 11 November 2022 Original Research Disability-inclusive community development: A case of a community garden in Limpopo province in South Africa Brian Tigere, Theresa Moyo African Journal of Disability | Vol 11 | a850 | 06 A qualitative study on the national response to COVID-19 Tracey Smythe, Thubelihle Mabhena, Shepherd Murahwi, Tapiwanashe Kujinga, Hannah Kuper, Simbarashe Rusakaniko African Journal of Disability | Vol 11 | a991 | 30 May 2022 Original Research Physical activity promotion in persons with spinal cord injuries: Barriers and facilitators in low-resource communities Candace Vermaak, Suzanne Ferreira, Elmarie Terblanche, Wayne Derman African Journal of Disability | Vol 11 | a988 | 09 June 2022 Original Research The subjective experiences of students with invisible disabilities at a historically disadvantaged university Carushca de Beer, Serena Isaacs, Cameron Lawrence, Gugulethu Cebekhulu, Jade M. Morkel, Jonathan Nell, Noluthando Mpisane, Wayne P. van Tonder, Yolanda R. Mayman, Lobisa Z. Thobenjane, Athena Pedro African Journal of Disability | Vol 11 | a932 | 10 June 2022 Original Research The matrix of linguistic exclusions impeding career construction for D/deaf learners Unati Stemela-Zali, Harsha Kathard, Maximus M. Sefotho African Journal of Disability | Vol 11 | a935 | 13 June 2022 Original Research Towards interventions on school dropouts for disabled learners amidst and post-COVID-19 pandemic Tawanda Makuyana African Journal of Disability | Vol 11 | a1009 | 24 June 2022 Original Research
- keywords: access; activity; adults; african; african journal; april; august; autism; children; community; contents; cord; covid-19; december; development; disabilities; disability; district; education; experiences; february; health; healthcare; http://www.ajod.org; inclusive; interventions; january; journal; july; june; knowledge; learners; life; march; marie; november; october; open; opinion; original; original research; page; paper; people; persons; physical; qualitative; rehabilitation; research; review; robert; rural; school; services; south; south africa; special; spinal; strategies; stroke; students; study; table; van; vol; young
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- ajod-120
- author: None
- title: ajod-120
- date: None
- words: 6269
- flesch: 47
- summary: (Sihle) Ramps throughout the markets do not satisfy the design specifications as there is an absence of handrails in some instances, whilst in other areas some are too steep for use and floor surfaces are not smooth, making access to markets, therefore, difficult for persons with mobility impairments. Additionally, markets are often centralised together with transport facilities, which are important for persons with mobility impairments to access other forms of employment.
- keywords: ablution; access; accessibility; accessible; africa; areas; authors; available; case; city; coding; data; design; disabilities; disability; durban; environmental; facilities; facility; figure; findings; goods; health; impairments; informal; interviews; markets; mobility; mobility impairments; national; non; order; parking; participants; people; persons; pick; place; points; policies; poor; public; qualitative; ramps; research; risk; road; safety; sans; services; sidewalks; sites; south; specifications; staircases; stairs; standard; station; storage; street; study; survey; taxi; theme; traders; trading; transport; use; warwick; way
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- ajod-124
- author: None
- title: ajod-124
- date: None
- words: 596
- flesch: 77
- summary: Karen Lazar1 Affiliation: 1Division of Languages, Literacies and Literatures, School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Postal address: 1 Jan Smuts Avenue, Braamfontein 2000, Johannesburg, South Africa How to cite this article: Lazar, K., 2014, ‘The other organs’, African Journal of Disability 3(1), Art. If the dam bursts If I drown in blood or gasp for oxygen when a clot blocks your highway, your waving arm and flexing knee surrender to weakness, or worse. I try, I really try, to bring what’s left of me to take over from what’s gone.
- keywords: access; africa; arm; article; hemisphere; left; neighbour; open; organs; south; work
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- ajod-126
- author: None
- title: ajod-126
- date: None
- words: 5464
- flesch: 50
- summary: Rhoda, A., 2012, ‘Limitations in activity and participation experienced by stroke patients: A qualitative inquiry’, South African Journal of Physiotherapy 68(3), 20–24. Rouillard, S., De Weerdt, W., De Wit, L. & Jelsma, J., 2012, ‘Functioning 6 months post stroke after discharge from an in-patient rehabilitation facility’, South African Medical Journal 6, 102. Southern African Stroke Prevention Initiative Project Team, 2004, ‘Prevalence of stroke survivors in rural South Africa: Results from the Southern African Stroke Prevention Initiative (SASPI) Agincourt Field Site’, Stroke 36, 627–632. Shah, S., Cooper, B. & Maas, F., 1992, ‘The Barthel Index and ADL evaluation in stroke rehabilitation in Australia, Japan, the UK and the USA’, Australian Occupational Therapy Journal 39, 5–13. References Top ↑ Abubakar, S.A. & Isezuo, S.A., 2012, ‘Health related quality of life of stroke survivors: Experience of a stroke unit’, International Journal of Biomedical Sciences 8(3), 183–187.Benlidayi, C. & Basaran, I., 2013, ‘Hemiplegic shoulder pain: A common clinical consequence of stroke’, Practical Neurology 14(2), 88–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/practneurol-2013-000606 Carod-Artal, J., Egido, J.A., González, J.L. & De Seijas, E.V., 2000, ‘Quality of life among stroke survivors evaluated 1 year after stroke: Experience of a stroke unit’, Stroke 31, 2995–3000.
- keywords: ability; activities; activity; africa; analysis; anxiety; assessment; barthel; cape; community; countries; daily; data; depression; domains; eq-5d; et al; factors; functional; health; income; index; individuals; jelsma; journal; life; living; lower; mean; months; motor; number; organization; participants; patients; poststroke; previous; quality; rehabilitation; research; results; rhoda; rma; sample; scale; score; services; similar; social; south; stroke; stroke patients; study; survivors; table; total; usual; western; world
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- ajod-127
- author: None
- title: ajod-127
- date: None
- words: 1216
- flesch: 78
- summary: In ‘And it seems to him’ (p. 12), the rain is ‘beating the world with/small silver hands and feet/beating it into the shape/of something that can be given a name’. We meet hands and feet in unexpected places (and sometimes in unexpected numbers).
- keywords: book; flesh; hands; house; line; open; ordinary; outside; poem; rest; review; silver; sky; table; things; words; world
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- ajod-128
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 7484
- flesch: 40
- summary: According to therapists working in this area, cultural beliefs play a major role in the utilisation of rural health services. Human resources for health have been identified as a key priority for rural health care in South Africa (Versteeg, Du Toit & Couper 2013).
- keywords: access; africa; areas; article; awareness; bacote; barriers; behaviour; beliefs; campinha; care; cause; cbr; children; community; context; cultural; cultural beliefs; culture; data; department; different; disabilities; disability; disabled; discussion; disease; doh; et al; factors; findings; focus; group; health; health care; hospitals; important; journal; kzn; lack; maart; madden; order; pain; participants; patients; penn; people; perceptions; persons; perspective; physiotherapists; population; poverty; quality; rehabilitation; rehabilitation services; rehabilitation therapists; research; role; rural; rural areas; rural health; seeking; services; society; south; south africa; specific; staff; study; therapists; therapy; transport; utilisation; water; workers; world; zulu
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- ajod-13
- author: None
- title: ajod-13
- date: None
- words: 5691
- flesch: 40
- summary: Hall, T., Strangman, N. & Meyer, A., 2003, Differentiated instruction and implications for UDL implementation, Wakefield, MA: National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum, viewed 25 August 2011, from http://aim.cast.org/learn/historyarchive/backgroundpapers/differentiated_instruction_udl Hitchcock, Meyer, A., Rose, D. & Jackson, 2002, ‘Providing new access to the general curriculum: Universal Design for Learning’, Teaching Exceptional Children 35(2), 8–17. Luftig, R. & Pavri, S., 2000, ‘The social face of inclusive education: are students with learning disabilities really included in the classroom?’, Preventing School Failure 45(1), 8–14. Even with an initial understanding of the UDL framework and principles, many practical questions regarding UDL implementation still remain: What does UDL mean for a teacher in the classroom?
- keywords: 2002; access; address; africa; assessment; authors; barriers; cape; cast; center; children; classroom; curriculum; dalton; department; design; disabilities; discussion; diverse; education; framework; general; guidelines; implementation; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive education; instruction; learners; learning; meyer; multiple; needs; paper; participants; policy; potential; principles; range; research; rose; schools; session; skills; south; south africa; special; strategy; students; support; system; teachers; teaching; technology; therapists; town; training; udl; universal; universal design; university; use; ways; workshop
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- ajod-132
- author: None
- title: ajod-132
- date: None
- words: 9482
- flesch: 45
- summary: More specifically, most studies on online support groups focus on those who actively participate in the group, whereas the majority of those who utilise online support groups do so in a passive way. The use of online support groups is becoming more popular as the technology develops.
- keywords: 2007; 2012; active; active members; analysis; aspects; barriers; challenges; clarke; companionship; coulson; data; different; disease; emotional; emotional support; emotions; et al; experiences; exposure; face; face support; facebook; facebook support; facilitators; findings; finn; group members; groups; health; impact; important; individuals; information; informational support; internet; knowledge; kraan; lurkers; members; membership; messages; multiple; negative; non; online facebook; online support; participants; people; posts; pwms; qualitative; quality; research; results; sclerosis; self; sense; similar; social; social support; source; status; studies; study; sub; support; support group; symptoms; themes; type; uden; users; van
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- ajod-137
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 4934
- flesch: 36
- summary: However, rehabilitation has not been incorporated into HIV care despite the fact that a large number of people living with HIV experience disability. However, there has been no consensus related to the extent to which rehabilitation approaches or strategies have been effectively integrated into HIV management in the general context of health nor has there been discussion related to what strategies or approaches to rehabilitation would be more feasible in a holistic model of HIV care in a country like South Africa (Cobbing, Hanass-Hancock & Deane 2014).
- keywords: 2011a; address; africa; aids; approaches; article; australia; australia department; care; cobbing; context; council; davidson; department; development; disability; et al; evidence; feasible; framework; hanass; hancock; health; health care; hiv; journal; kwazulu; model; natal; national; needs; new; nixon; number; organisation; people; phase; process; public; rehabilitation; research; sector; services; setting; south; south africa; south australia; stakeholders; treatment; understanding; wales; western; working; worthington
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- ajod-142
- author: None
- title: ajod-142
- date: None
- words: 6737
- flesch: 40
- summary: Furthermore, predetermined probing follow-up questions were asked to complement the main questions and covered areas related to prosthetic orthotic education, entering the workforce, professional development, how they handled the situation as new graduates and what knowledge they lacked and how the TATCOT education had influenced their performance. Wyss, D., Lindsay, S., Cleghorn, W.L. & Andrysek, J., 2015, ‘Priorities in lower limb prosthetic service delivery based on an international survey of prosthetists in low- and high-income countries’, Prosthetics and Orthotics International 39(2), 102–111.
- keywords: africa; analysis; applied; assistive; categories; centre; clinical; conceptions; conditions; countries; course; curriculum; data; development; devices; different; diploma; disabilities; education; facilities; good; graduates; health; income; international; interviewee; learning; limb; low; magnusson; malawi; marton; need; organization; orthopaedic; orthotics; participants; patients; people; perceptions; phenomenography; practice; profession; programme; prosthetic; questions; rehabilitation; results; rural; services; shangali; society; staff; students; study; table; tanzania; tatcot; teachers; teaching; technologists; technology; time; training; united; way; working; world; years
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- ajod-144
- author: None
- title: ajod-144
- date: None
- words: 5310
- flesch: 60
- summary: And these concerns do not even touch upon the question of access to reading material in a mother tongue. The treaty empowers states to create an exception in national copyright laws, authorising the production of accessible copies of books and other publications for disabled users.
- keywords: abstract; access; accessible; account; article; audio; available; books; copyright; countries; deprivation; disability; disabled; emotional; exclusion; famine; feelings; form; freedom; hard; hope; human; identity; impairment; information; inner; library; life; literature; little; london; loss; love; material; mother; need; oliver; organization; people; personal; poor; print; psychological; reader; reading; real; scanning; self; sense; sight; social; south; states; story; text; time; treaty; university; voice; watermeyer; way; winterson; wipo; words; work; world; years
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- ajod-146
- author: None
- title: ajod-146
- date: None
- words: 8590
- flesch: 42
- summary: Method: Eighteen in-depth individual interviews were conducted: nine with schizophrenia service users and nine with caregivers. This aligns with earlier work in the North West Province showing schizophrenia service users to have particular needs in the areas of improving social networks and community integration (Modiba et al. 2001).
- keywords: activity; adherence; africa; approach; behaviour; burden; caregivers; clinical; cognitive; community; conflict; data; development; diagnosis; disability; discrimination; emotional; et al; evidence; experiences; facilitated; families; family; framework; grants; group; healer; health; help; illness; impact; importance; income; intervention; interview; journal; kleintjes; knowledge; lack; levels; life; low; lund; management; medication; members; mental; mental health; mental illness; money; need; north; participant; patients; people; perceptions; policy; poverty; productive; province; psychiatry; psychosocial; recovery; rehabilitation; research; schizophrenia; section; service; service users; significant; skills; social; south; south africa; stigma; stress; study; subtheme; support; swartz; symptoms; table; traditional; training; treatment; understanding; university; user participant; west; work
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- ajod-149
- author: None
- title: ajod-149
- date: None
- words: 6001
- flesch: 45
- summary: The success and international visibility of the work many people are doing to develop disability research in our region was brought home to me recently when I was invited to give a talk at a prominent university in the USA, well known for its work on disability issues. This ‘on tap/on top’ distinction has been used in a number of publications on disability research, and was used as part of the disability knowledge and resources process of scoping disability issues in southern Africa (Albert & Harrison 2005).
- keywords: access; accounts; activists; africa; article; authors; better; blind; centre; challenges; conclusions; contexts; countries; data; development; disability; disability research; disabled; disabled people; education; evidence; example; exclusion; expectations; experience; expertise; field; good; group; health; important; inclusion; insider; issues; journal; knowledge; long; methods; mji; need; number; people; person; press; quality; questions; region; research; researchers; rights; safod; saharan; services; skills; social; south; stories; studies; sub; swartz; terms; trainee; training; university; use; work; world
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- ajod-15
- author: None
- title: ajod-15
- date: None
- words: 4692
- flesch: 43
- summary: In brief, inclusive education is based on the premise that all children can learn, and it respects the fact that there are many differences in the ways in which children learn. Yet access to inclusive education for children with disabilities in South Africa remains full of diverse challenges (Ogot, McKenzie & Dube 2008; Pillay & Di Terlizzi 2009).
- keywords: africa; anga; area; authors; ayabonga; beliefs; campaign; care; case; centre; chaeli; children; class; community; department; development; disabilities; disability; early; education; families; family; formal; grade; inclusive; informal; journal; journey; learners; learning; local; lsen; mainstream; mother; needs; paper; parents; peers; physical; primary; process; professionals; programme; recommendations; rehabilitation; research; school; south; special; study; support; teachers; team; terms; therapists; time; township; training; wheelchair; worker; xhosa; year
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- ajod-150
- author: None
- title: ajod-150
- date: None
- words: 7334
- flesch: 31
- summary: There has been an increase in institutions that have disability policies (Fotim Report 2011) and 21% of institutions surveyed by Matshedisho (2007) were using formal policies to provide support for people with disabilities. The specific policies regarding disability in higher learning in South Africa are not effectively implemented and in many instances, disability policies have taken a long time to merely be approved by management structures (Fotim Report 2011).
- keywords: academic; access; advocacy; africa; article; attitudes; bodies; cape; context; curricula; degrees; department; design; disabilities; disability; disabled; doe; eds; education; employment; ethical; experience; fieldwork; funding; heis; higher; higher education; higher learning; howell; inclusion; individual; institutions; journal; knowledge; learning; level; literature; negative; new; nsfas; obstacles; opportunities; paper; people; persons; policies; policy; practical; practice; preparation; principles; professional; professional degrees; professionalisation; report; research; school; self; site; social; society; south; south africa; specific; staff; students; support; swartz; theory; town; training; transformation; transport; university
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- ajod-151
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 10228
- flesch: 62
- summary: The first category was not subversive and included well-known examples of redemptive illness accounts such as Jean-Dominique Bauby's The diving bell and the butterfly (1997) and Anatole Broyard's Intoxicated by my illness (1993). A kidney transplant reveals the ultimate second chance, uses typical themes in transplant accounts (perfect match and second chance) to make a connection between her husband's transplant and her religious beliefs.
- keywords: account; biographies; biography; book; celebrity; certain; chance; chapter; chronic; closure; cojocaru; comeback; concerns; condition; damaged; different; difficult; disease; disruption; end; esrd; experience; extent; failure; form; frank; glamour; hans; health; hermans; hollywood; husband; idea; identity; illness; kidney; kidney transplant; life; liminality; lives; long; longer; making; match; meaning; medical; moral; narrative; narrators; need; new; organ; patient; people; perfect; person; popular; post; press; profound; readers; recovery; redemptive; religious; renal; research; restitution; return; second; self; sense; social; society; spiritual; state; structure; suffering; tale; terms; theme; time; transplant; transplantation; transplantees; type; university; use; way; world; writing; years; york
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- ajod-157
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 6658
- flesch: 35
- summary: Findings • Motivation for disability inclusion • Understanding of disability • Focus of inclusion • Teaching strategies • Discussion • Implications • Conclusion • Acknowledgements • Competing interests • Authors’ contributions • References • Footnote Abstract Top ↑ Background: Disability inclusion in the curricula of higher education institutions contributes to socially responsive graduates with a capacity to address the cross-cutting issue of disability in development. Current inclusion practices in higher education institutions There are various arguments for the inclusion of disability in the curricula of HEIs, which include knowledge production, training of professionals, and the interdisciplinary nature of disability studies.
- keywords: academic; access; approach; article; barriers; cape; classroom; context; curriculum; department; development; disabilities; disability; disability inclusion; disability studies; disciplinary; disciplines; education; engineering; environment; factors; faculties; faculty; focus; health; heis; higher; humanities; impairment; inclusion; inclusive; individual; influence; intended; interest; issues; journal; knowledge; learning; lecturers; life; model; need; participant; people; personal; policy; practice; rehabilitation; research; rights; sciences; social; society; space; staff; strategies; students; studies; study; support; table; teaching; time; town; uct; uncrpd; understanding; university; ways
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- ajod-16
- author: None
- title: ajod-16
- date: None
- words: 6926
- flesch: 56
- summary: All of those indicating an improvement cited understanding and disability support as areas where the author was more sensitive and that the author was able to communicate on many levels with the learners as a result of experiencing disability. Within the comfort of the lecture room, we directly tackle some of the myths regarding disabilities prevalent in South African society, such as albinism, HIV and disability, through discussions where we explore housewives-tales and other myths.
- keywords: able; accident; african; author; barriers; basic; better; change; chapter; children; classroom; community; context; day; department; disabilities; disability; durban; education; effect; effectiveness; experiences; family; fun; inclusive; inclusive education; journey; learners; learning; level; life; longer; narrative; needs; open; paper; participants; people; personal; perspective; positive; practices; presentation; pretoria; problems; research; school; slides; social; south; south african; special; story; students; study; support; teacher; teaching; terms; things; time; training; views; wheelchair; work; world; year
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- ajod-160
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 8638
- flesch: 41
- summary: This study will evaluate the effectiveness of a specifically tailored, group-based, CBT anxiety intervention programme for South African children with visual impairments, and the results rendered by the study will provide insights into the effectiveness of the anxiety intervention, and determine its suitability for future use within the South African context. Barrett, P.M., Lock, S. & Farrell, L.J., 2005, ‘Developmental differences in universal preventive intervention for child anxiety’, Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 10(4), 539–555.
- keywords: adolescent; african; african children; anxiety; anxiety disorders; anxiety intervention; anxiety symptoms; assessment; authors; barrett; behaviour; blind; cbt; childhood; childhood anxiety; children; chorpita; clinical; cognitive; data; depression; development; difficulties; dig; disorders; early; emotional; et al; evaluation; fears; follow; friends; goodman; group; health; high; iig; impaired; impairments; intervention; intervention group; intervention programme; journal; large; loxton; measures; mental; mostert; muris; ollendick; outcomes; p.m.; participants; population; post; prevalence; prevention; problem; programme; psychiatry; psychology; qualitative; questionnaire; rates; rcads; report; research; scale; school; scores; self; session; severe; significant; silverman; skills; social; south; south african; stellenbosch; strengths; study; suitable; symptoms; therapy; time; turner; universal; university; use; visagie; visual; visual impairments; w.k
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- ajod-164
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 5557
- flesch: 40
- summary: Rehabilitation service providers are required to make an audit of the accessibility of the environment. Improving the quality of rehabilitation services requires the dialogue of patients’ perceptions with those of service providers, in order to recommend informed reform.
- keywords: accessibility; africa; authors; cape; care; centre; community; conditions; data; depth; design; disabilities; disability; experiences; families; fgd; findings; focus; group; health; important; information; interaction; interviews; involvement; knowledge; lack; need; participants; participation; patients; people; perceptions; persons; physical; physiotherapy; programmes; providers; pwds; qualitative; rehabilitation; rehabilitation centre; rehabilitation services; research; service; service providers; sessions; skills; south; students; studies; study; theme; time; training; transport; treatment; university; western; wottrich
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- ajod-165
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 5593
- flesch: 42
- summary: Introduction and background Top ↑ Several studies have been conducted on family caregivers in the context of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) (Arango-Lasprilla et al. 2010; Gan et al. 2010; Livingston et al. 2010; Phelan et al. 2011; Vangel, Rapport & Hanks 2011). Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are regarded as a global public health problem, with research showing that TBIs affect an estimated 10 million people worldwide every year (Hyder et al. 2007).
- keywords: accident; africa; ambiguous; analysis; boss; brain; brain injury; caregivers; caregiving; challenges; clinical; data; et al; experiences; family; family caregivers; findings; following; healthcare; healthcare professionals; hospital; information; initial; injury; interviews; journal; lack; loss; need; negative; news; participants; patients; physical; process; professionals; psychological; qualitative; recovery; rehabilitation; relative; research; role; severe; shock; son; south; stages; studies; study; support; survivors; tbi; tbis; themes; time; traumatic; traumatic brain; years
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- ajod-167
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 7803
- flesch: 45
- summary: There are more persons with disabilities in rural than in urban areas (ILO 2007) as, in these areas, they are less likely to be socially mobile, yet research on disability in rural areas remains sparse, particularly concerning the challenges of rural community disability work. However, insufficient attention has been paid to the challenges that rural community disability workers (CDWs) face in trying to realise these objectives.
- keywords: access; actions; africa; analysis; areas; article; attitudes; barriers; beliefs; botswana; cape; cdws; challenges; change; children; communities; community; community disability; context; countries; country; data; development; disabilities; disability; disabled; discriminatory; donors; economic; education; families; family; health; human; inclusion; influence; interviews; life; living; local; lorenzo; malawi; members; needs; opportunities; organisations; parents; participants; participation; people; persons; poverty; power; rehabilitation; relationships; research; resources; rights; rural; services; social; south; southern; study; systems; themes; town; traditional; transport; understanding; university; van; work; workers
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- ajod-168
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 7680
- flesch: 46
- summary: These were the CSI that measures caregiver burden of care and the EQ-5D that assesses HRQoL of the caregiver. Other unmeasured variables such as the perceived availability of social support or financial resources might be better predictors of caregiver burden.
- keywords: addition; age; anxiety; areas; brehaut; burden; caregiver strain; caregivers; caring; cerebral; cerebral palsy; children; classification; clinical; csi; davis; density; depression; development; disabilities; disability; distress; economic; eq-5d; et al; factors; financial; findings; functional; general; giving; group; harare; health; high; hrqol; impact; increase; index; jelsma; journal; level; life; likely; limitations; months; mothers; murphy; need; pain; palsy; participants; physical; population; problems; properties; psychometric; quality; rehabilitation; reported; research; respondents; results; sample; scale; scores; severity; shona; social; status; strain; stress; study; support; table; time; tool; zimbabwe
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- ajod-169
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 1267
- flesch: 38
- summary: Gun violence, disability and recovery is a timely publication that not only captures the devastating consequences of gun violence but also gives this problem a human touch by telling a wide variety of stories from different people in several countries, who share with the reader their lives after being injured by a firearm. The authors of Gun violence, disability and recovery note that all of these approaches are relevant and this publication does an excellent job in linking personal experiences with the overall individual, family, community, and social responses that are needed to reflect the rights of victims of gun violence.
- keywords: addresses; america; book; chapter; consequences; countries; different; disability; gun; highlights; protection; recovery; rehabilitation; rights; section; services; social; states; united; victims; violence
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- ajod-175
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 5638
- flesch: 41
- summary: Schultz, S. n.d., ‘Traumatic brain injuries in South Africa: A review’, viewed 04 December 2014, from http://www.brainweb.org.za/Documents-folder/TBI%20in%20South%20Africa.pdf Shukla, D., Devi, B.I. & Agrawal, A., 2011, ‘Outcome measures for traumatic brain injury’, Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery 113, 435–441. Cognitive rehabilitation groups: A thematic analysis of feasibility and perceived benefits for clients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury living in the Western Cape In This Original Research... Open Access • Abstract • Introduction • Literature review • Objectives • Methodology • Ethical considerations • Findings and discussion • The preinjury and post injury self • A sense of exclusion • Reintegration of the self through others • Birth of identity • Building bridges and creating confidence • Practical skills developed • Conclusions • Acknowledgements • Competing interests • Author's contributions • References Abstract Top ↑ Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has a significant impact on the burden of care within the South African setting, impacting on the individual, the family, and the community as a whole.
- keywords: african; analysis; article; b.a; benefits; better; brain; brain injury; capacity; cape; caregivers; changes; clients; cognitive; cognitive rehabilitation; confidence; data; emotional; et al; exclusion; experience; families; family; financial; group; health; identity; individuals; injury; interpersonal; intervention; journal; loss; medicine; members; memory; moderate; need; order; participants; participation; people; post; process; rehabilitation; research; sander; self; sense; sessions; setting; severe; shared; skills; social; society; south; study; tasks; tbi; traumatic; traumatic brain; y.m
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- ajod-176
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 5907
- flesch: 47
- summary: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0b013e3181d96550 LaFrance Jr., W.C., 2008, ‘Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures’, Current Opinion in Neurology 21, 195–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/WCO.0b013e3282f7008f LaFrance Jr., W.C. & Bjørnaes, H., 2010, ‘Designing treatment plans based on etiology of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures’, in S. C. Schachter & W. C. LaFrance Jr. (eds.), Gates and Rowan’s nonepileptic seizures, pp. Possible barriers to appropriate psychological treatment may result from the following factors: a patient's refusal to accept the diagnosis (Bodde et al. 2007) poor understanding of PNES by health care workers over emphasis on the seizures limited recognition of the psychological aspects transportation limitations lack of resources in rural areas (Jones et al. 2010; LaFrance Jr. 2008; LaFrance et al. 2014).
- keywords: africa; behavior; benbadis; bodde; cambridge; care; clinic; clinical; constantiaberg; correct; cragar; data; demographic; deveci; diagnosis; disorder; eds; epilepsy; et al; factors; gates; general; group; health; individuals; information; jones; lafrance; lafrance jr; life; martin; medi; monitoring; neurologist; neurology; nonepileptic; nonepileptic seizures; participants; patients; people; pnes; pnes participants; population; possible; press; prevalence; previous; psychogenic; psychogenic nonepileptic; psychological; research; results; reuber; rowan; sample; schachter; seizures; social; south; studies; study; szaflarski; treatment; unit; university; veeg; w.c; years
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- ajod-181
- author: None
- title: ajod-181
- date: None
- words: 5207
- flesch: 41
- summary: Introduction In most developing countries around the world, people with disabilities people with disabilities may feel reluctant to access health services although they may have serious health problems that require health service intervention (Shaikh & Hatcher 2005:51). Conclusion: The study recommends the provision of in-service training for service providers to update their knowledge on disability issues and improve access to services for people with disabilities.
- keywords: analysis; aor; attitudes; care; data; disabilities; disability; disabled; discrimination; education; facility; family; finding; ghana; gss; health; health care; impaired; intellectual; issues; jones; journal; knowledge; kumasi; level; likely; metropolis; nkrumah; people; physical; pmid; population; prevalence; professionals; programme; providers; rehabilitation; research; respondents; results; sample; sampling; service; service providers; size; students; study; time; training; university; use; women; world; years
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- ajod-183
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 6054
- flesch: 47
- summary: The machinery that should move inclusive education forward has to be guided by the National Department of Education’ s (2002) notion of the implementation entailments: Inclusive education is about the whole education system from the national, provincial and district offices of the Department of Education, to individual schools and their communities, and to individual teachers and learners. The ‘bathopele’ principle is applied at inclusive education schools.
- keywords: access; africa; agenda; areas; barriers; better; change; children; communities; community; data; democratic; department; development; disabilities; diverse; education; human; implementation; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive education; inclusivity; journal; learners; learning; level; maguvhe; mainstream; members; national; needs; new; parents; participants; participation; people; policy; pretoria; process; questions; representatives; research; resources; rights; role; rural; sample; school; sgb; society; south; special; stakeholders; study; support; swart; system; teachers; theory; training; transformation; urban; van
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- ajod-185
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 7049
- flesch: 53
- summary: This thought article was a hermeneutic inquiry into the experiences of informal caregivers of the elderly who are also physically disabled. Their common experiences are described and interpreted to examine two things: firstly, how the caregiver is changed by the experience of caregiving and, secondly, what they found helpful in their self-care and recommended here for informal caregivers within the Ghanaian context.
- keywords: amy; anger; article; ather; author; bailey; burden; care; care recipient; caregiver; caregiving; caring; case; challenges; children; clients; clinical; common; context; cultural; culture; daily; depression; disabled; elderly; evelyn; experience; family; feelings; forgiveness; ghanaian; guilt; health; home; impaired; important; informal; informal caregivers; interpersonal; issues; journal; journaling; lack; lavela; life; meaning; members; mercy; mind; mother; navaie; old; parents; personal; physical; pmid; positive; primary; processes; psychological; quality; reappraisal; recipient; research; role; savage; self; siblings; social; support; sörensen; therapy; things; time; waliser; women
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- ajod-189
- author: None
- title: ajod-189
- date: None
- words: 7656
- flesch: 39
- summary: Whilst youth are most affected by minimal employment opportunities (with a 25% unemployment rate in the fourth quarter of 2010; Stats SA 2011), disabled youth – specifically those living in rural areas – suffer the most (with a 12.4% employment rate for disabled people; Stats SA 2011). Abstract Introduction Research methodology Results Discussion Conclusion Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Lieketseng Ned Centre for Rehabilitation Studies, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Theresa Lorenzo Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa Citation Ned L., Lorenzo T., 2016, ‘Enhancing public sectors’ capacity for inclusive economic participation of disabled youth in rural communities’, African Journal of Disability 5(1), a189.
- keywords: access; africa; analysis; approach; article; attitudes; awareness; barriers; capacity; cape; case; cofimvaba; communities; community; context; cramm; data; development; different; disabilities; disability; disabled; disabled people; disabled youth; economic; education; employment; families; family; findings; focus; government; groups; health; impairment; inclusion; inclusive; individual; interviews; journal; knowledge; level; local; lorenzo; members; municipality; need; opportunities; participants; participation; people; persons; policy; poor; poverty; process; providers; public; qualitative; rehabilitation; related; research; rural; self; service; service providers; skills; social; south africa; strategies; studies; study; support; town; understanding; university; van; work; world; youth
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- ajod-19
- author: None
- title: ajod-19
- date: None
- words: 6450
- flesch: 52
- summary: The loss of a regular income • Discussion • Conclusions • Acknowledgements • Authors’ contributions • Competing interest • Reference Abstract Top ↑ Poor people with disabilities who live in poor rural societies experience unique problems in accessing health services. This article explores how difficulties may interact and influence access to and utilisation of health services, and how this may render health services out of reach even when they are available.
- keywords: access; africa; area; article; authors; available; barriers; cape; care; case; clinics; community; community health; compliance; countries; course; cultural; data; development; disabilities; disability; disabled; district; factors; family; global; grants; health; health care; health services; home; hospital; income; informants; ingstad; interviews; knowledge; lack; life; live; local; madwaleni; medical; medication; mthunzi; new; order; parents; past; people; person; poor; poverty; press; professionals; rehabilitation; report; research; resource; rural; seizures; services; situation; social; south; south africa; study; transport; understanding; university; work; workers; world; years
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- ajod-192
- author: None
- title: ajod-192
- date: None
- words: 5682
- flesch: 37
- summary: Another aspect of disability beliefs is the one identified by Desta: this is the belief that disability is a curse and people with disabilities are hopeless (1995). Therefore, it is not only the case that people with disabilities are killed on the basis of disability beliefs (e.g. superstition), but these killings are also ritualised; they are ritualised because they arise from a particular culture embedded in a particular worldview.
- keywords: abang; african; albinism; almajiri; alms; angular; aspect; atr; attitudes; begging; beliefs; case; children; community; context; cultural; culture; disabilities; disability; disabled; discrimination; discriminatory; education; health; human; illness; islamic; killing; kyphosis; life; literature; mental; n.p; news; nigeria; number; october; oculocutaneous; omiegbe; paper; parents; particular; parts; people; persons; point; population; practices; raping; religion; religious; report; rights; rituals; social; society; special; state; streets; superstition; system; thisday; trafficking; tribune; university; women; world
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- ajod-193
- author: None
- title: ajod-193
- date: None
- words: 9915
- flesch: 35
- summary: Responses from all participants indicated that other than the recently constructed buildings, all the old buildings which are the bulk of lecture rooms in institutions of higher learning are to some extent inaccessible to people with mobility difficulties and other disabilities. Paul Emong Department of Community and Disability Studies, Kyambogo University, Uganda Lawrence Eron Department of Special Needs Studies, Kyambogo University, Uganda Citation Emong, P., Eron, L., 2016, ‘Disability inclusion in higher education in Uganda: Status and strategies’, African Journal of Disability 5(1), a193.
- keywords: academic; access; accessible; accommodation; act; action; admission; article; assessment; braille; council; crpd; data; deaf; development; disabilities; disability; disability inclusion; discrimination; discussions; economic; education; emong; environment; equal; equality; examinations; exclusion; experiences; facilities; focus; government; hearing; higher education; higher learning; human; impairment; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive education; individual; information; institutions; international; interpreter; kampala; lack; language; law; learning; lectures; legal; level; library; limited; model; national; nche; needs; non; oliver; opportunities; participants; participation; people; persons; physical; policies; policy; private; programmes; provisions; public; reasonable; related; requirements; research; rights; section; services; sign; social; society; special; staff; students; study; support; time; uganda; understanding; universities; university; visual; work
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- ajod-194
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 5588
- flesch: 46
- summary: Blind learners on the other hand, have no visual input at all. They can as well network with colleagues here and abroad and exchange ideas on how to teach blind learners.
- keywords: accessible; africa; areas; article; attitudes; blind; blind learners; blindness; case; children; concepts; countries; development; difficult; education; face; fact; factors; fields; findings; following; government; impaired; impairments; information; interview; knowledge; lack; learners; learning; maguvhe; mathematics; needs; participant; people; quotation; research; resources; results; sahin; schools; science; science education; sighted; sighted learners; skills; south; special; students; studies; study; subjects; teachers; teaching; technician; technologies; theme; training; university; use; verbal; visual; yorek
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- ajod-198
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 7154
- flesch: 49
- summary: A computer programme was used to generate random numbers to select study participants. In this instance, government departments (health, housing, transport, social services, law and order), local government, NGOs, communities, and persons with disabilities need to collaborate to address the barriers experienced by study participants.
- keywords: access; african; assets; assistance; assistive; attitudes; authors; barriers; buildings; cape; care; carers; communication; community; daily; data; devices; disabilities; disability; environmental; facilitators; factors; family; figure; findings; food; group; health; help; home; icf; impairments; information; international; journal; lack; living; majority; male; methods; mobility; need; old; participants; participation; people; person; pmid; policies; products; providers; province; public; qualitative; regard; rehabilitation; relationships; research; results; role; services; setting; social; society; south; stroke; study; support; survivors; systems; table; technology; transport; use; visagie; western; wheelchair; year
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- ajod-2
- author: None
- title: ajod-2
- date: None
- words: 7471
- flesch: 43
- summary: Published: 16 May 2012 How to cite this article: Danso, A.K., Owusu-Ansah, F.E. & Alorwu, D., 2012, ‘Designed to deter: Barriers to facilities at secondary schools in Ghana’, African Journal of Disability 1(1), Art. Designed to deter: Barriers to facilities at secondary schools in Ghana In This Original Research... Open Access • Abstract • Introduction • Background • Literature review • Discrimination against people with disabilities • Regulatory frameworks and international building instruments • Aim and objectives of study • Research method and design • Materials • Setting and design • Sample and data collection method • Analysis • Results • Car parks and garages • Access routes to and around buildings • Vertical circulation: Staircases, ramps and lifts • Horizontal circulation: Entrances, corridors, verandas and floor surfaces • Signage and information • Audible communication systems • General lighting • Public telephones • Sanitary accommodation •
- keywords: accessibility; accessible; bs8300; buildings; car; circulation; communication; construction; country; data; design; disabilities; disability; disabled; discrimination; doors; education; elements; entrances; environment; facilities; fact; findings; free; general; ghana; government; group; high; institutions; instruments; international; kwame; level; lighting; main; mild; moderate; needs; nkrumah; number; parks; pda; people; persons; public; ramps; region; republic; requirements; research; restrictions; restrooms; results; routes; sanitary; schools; science; secondary; secondary schools; senior; severe; signage; situation; staircases; standards; students; study; surfaces; survey; table; technology; telephones; time; universal; university; users; vertical; wheelchair
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- ajod-201
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 7762
- flesch: 44
- summary: Wheelchair services delivered by well-trained providers have been associated with increased satisfaction amongst wheelchair users (Bergstrom & Samuelsson 2006; Glumac et al. 2009; Routhier et al. 2003; Samuelsson & Wressle 2008). The main topics explored were: Participants’ experiences and problems as wheelchair users in life situations Satisfaction with their wheelchairs How the experience of wheelchair users in Zimbabwe can be improved.
- keywords: adult; africa; appropriate; article; assistive; authors; basic; bergstrom; caregiver; challenges; children; cmsp; comfort; comprehensive; current; data; delivery; derud; design; durability; environmental; et al; features; figure; findings; fit; focus; folding; follow; frame; function; group; health; high; impact; important; information; levels; limited; mobility; mukherjee; needs; non; outdoor; participants; pearlman; pmid; poor; posture; providers; provision; qualitative; quest; rehabilitation; reliability; research; resourced; rights; safety; samanta; samuelsson; satisfaction; satisfied; scores; services; settings; similar; south; studies; study; support; technology; training; transport; university; users; visagie; wheelchair; wheelchair services; wheelchair users; woman; wressle; zimbabwe
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- ajod-202
- author: None
- title: ajod-202
- date: None
- words: 6083
- flesch: 39
- summary: Objectives: To describe the nature and frequency with which South African adults with severe communication disabilities have access to and use wireless devices, as well as the types of activities for which wireless devices are used. Advantages of using wireless devices were highlighted, including connecting with others (through using text messaging, social networking, making plans with others, sharing photos and videos with friends), for leisure activities (e.g. listening to music, watching videos, playing games), and for safety purposes (e.g. to navigate when lost, using the device when in trouble and needing immediate assistance).
- keywords: aac; access; activities; adults; africa; africans; alternative; alternative communication; apps; assistive; augmentative; benefits; bornman; bryen; cell; center; communication; communication disabilities; current; data; devices; disabilities; disability; education; findings; fofa; frequency; half; individuals; information; journal; light; mainstream; media; mobile; morris; needs; networking; participants; people; persons; pew; phones; population; potential; pretoria; primary; recent; research; results; sample; severe; severe communication; social; south; specialized; speech; states; study; sun; survey; table; technologies; technology; text; united; university; use; wireless; wireless devices
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- ajod-206
- author: None
- title: ajod-206
- date: None
- words: 8659
- flesch: 46
- summary: From the outset it appeared that the strides made by learner group 1 (LG1) (high pre-test) was much higher than that of learner group 2 (LG2). With the picture portrayed by the findings in Table 3, we are now at an informed position to address more specifically the question of the nature of change in reading abilities learners with ID in this study have undergone following teaching that was mediated with text-to-speech books.
- keywords: ability; access; action; activities; addition; africa; afrikaans; analysis; april; assistive; behaviours; books; cape; challenges; change; children; comprehension; computer; context; curriculum; data; development; difficulties; disabilities; disability; disabled; education; educators; electronic; english; errors; example; fluency; following; group; impairments; important; influence; instruction; intellectual; intervention; journal; language; learners; learning; level; lg1; lg2; literacy; meaning; mental; multimedia; needs; new; performance; phonological; positive; post; potential; preand; press; processes; qualitative; reading; recognition; research; researchers; school; skills; social; south; special; specific; speech; stories; story; students; study; support; table; teaching; technology; test; text; theory; time; understanding; university; use; view; vygotsky; word; writing
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- ajod-208
- author: Office, Editorial
- title: Acnowledgement to reviewers
- date: 2015-07-30
- words: 351
- flesch: 39
- summary: In an effort to facilitate the selection of appropriate peer reviewers for the African Journal of Disability, we ask that you take a moment to update your electronic portfolio on http://www.ajod.org for our files, allowing us better access to your areas of interest and expertise, in order to match reviewers with submitted manuscripts. It is good practice as a reviewer to update your personal details regularly to ensure contact with you throughout your professional term as reviewer to the African Journal of Disability.
- keywords: african; details; disability; interest; journal; peer; process; publication; reviewer
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- ajod-209
- author: None
- title: ajod-209
- date: None
- words: 7625
- flesch: 48
- summary: Family caregivers can also be involved in detection of mental health disorders and to encourage their relatives to go for treatment early. Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Lazarus Kajawu Department of Psychiatry, College of Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Florence Muchirahondo Department of Psychiatry, College of Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Crick Lund Alan J Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa Citation Marimbe, B. D., Cowan, F., Kajawu, L., Muchirahondo, F. & Lund, C., 2016 ‘Perceived burden of care, and reported coping strategies and needs for family caregivers of people with mental disorders in Zimbabwe’, African Journal of Disability 5(1), a209.
- keywords: affective; age; analysis; better; bipolar; burden; caregivers; caring; child; cmds; college; community; coping; countries; data; department; depth; disorder; emotional; et al; families; family; family caregivers; family members; financial; findings; focused; folkman; harare; health; help; hope; idi; illness; impact; income; interviews; journal; lazarus; life; low; members; mental; mental disorder; mental health; mental illness; mother; needs; participants; patients; people; perlick; physical; problem; psychiatry; psychological; qualitative; relatives; research; resources; results; review; risk; schizophrenia; sciences; score; services; shibre; shona; social; ssq; stigma; strategies; study; support; symptoms; thinking; time; university; zimbabwe
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- ajod-21
- author: None
- title: ajod-21
- date: None
- words: 8735
- flesch: 55
- summary: The Ugandan perspective’, Child: Care, Health and Development 31(2), 167–180. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2214.2004.00464.x Hastings, R.P., 1997, Grandparents of children with disabilities: a review. International Labour Organisation (ILO), 2009, viewed 25 April 2011, from http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_emp/---ifp_skills/documents/publication/wcms_111461.pdf Ingstad, B., & Whyte, S.R., (eds.) 1995, Disability and Culture, University of California Press, London. Johnson, R.F., O’Reilly, M. & Vostanis, P., 2006, ‘Caring for children with learning disabilities who present problem behaviours: A maternal perspective’, Journal of Child Health Care 10(3), 188–198. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367493506066480 King, G.A., Zwaigenbaum, L., King, S., Baxter, D., Rosenbaum, P. & Bates, A., 2006, ‘A qualitative investigation of changes in the belief systems of families of children with autism or Down syndrom’, Child: Care, Health and Development 32(3), 353–369.
- keywords: access; approach; authors; burden; care; carers; caring; centre; challenges; children; cwd; data; day; demands; design; disabilities; disability; disabled; emotional; employment; et al; experiences; family; financial; findings; form; future; god; gona; green; happy; hartley; hastings; health; help; impact; interviews; isolation; issues; journal; kittay; lack; literature; lives; mechanisms; members; money; moshi; mothers; needs; negative; objective; parents; participants; people; perceptions; pity; positive; qualitative; research; respect; results; sick; situation; social; stigma; stress; studies; study; support; tanzania; tasks; theme; time; uganda; use; work
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- ajod-215
- author: None
- title: ajod-215
- date: None
- words: 8704
- flesch: 43
- summary: Nuwagaba, E.L., Nakabugo, M., Tumukunde, M., Ngirabakunzi, E., Hartley, S. & Wade, A., 2012, ‘Accessibility to micro-finance services by people with disabilities in Bushenyi District, Uganda’, Disability and Society 27(2), 175–190. Nuwagaba, E.L. & Rule, P., 2015, ‘Navigating the ethical maze in disability research: Ethical contestations in an African context’, Disability & Society (30)2, 255–269, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2014.998333 Nyende, F., 2012, ‘Children with Disabilities in Universal Primary Education in Uganda: A rights – based analysis to inclusive education, Masters’, thesis, in Development Studies, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands. Understanding the case of a person with disability’s learning experiences and the challenges he faces while learning about microfinance can provide insight into the complexity of the interplay between disability and adult learning and provide a basis for improving education provision for people with visual disabilities.
- keywords: access; activities; adult; adult education; adult learning; africa; analysis; article; attitudes; barriers; blind; case; challenges; clark; communication; community; context; data; development; disabilities; disability; discrimination; education; engagement; environment; experiences; factors; feel; findings; formal; impairment; inaccessible; john; kampala; katureebe; lack; learners; learning; life; members; microfinance; model; national; negative; new; non; notes; nuwagaba; oliver; opportunities; participation; people; personal; persons; physical; practice; process; processes; psychological; recognise; research; rights; rule; saccos; services; skills; social; social barriers; social model; society; south; strategies; study; teaching; theory; uganda; understanding; unfavourable; university; use; visual
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- ajod-216
- author: None
- title: ajod-216
- date: None
- words: 5932
- flesch: 54
- summary: Hayes & Hodson (2011) also identified a lack of collaborative practice in pain care in a healthcare setting in Australia, and they reported on several changes they made to develop a systems approach for chronic pain care. Four themes emerged from the data: (1) the participants sought understanding about the pain’s origin and the reason for pain persistence; (2) pain impacted their lives in multiple ways; (3) the participants depended on healthcare providers (HCP) for guidance and support; and (4) they had the option of acceptance of chronic pain.
- keywords: acceptance; africa; analysis; anne; approach; chronic; chronic pain; cmsk; cmsk pain; collaboration; communication; condition; data; delia; different; experience; factors; family; findings; good; guidance; hcps; head; healthcare; impact; important; information; interdisciplinary; interview; journal; lack; lives; management; musculoskeletal; objectives; origin; pain; participants; patient; persistence; perspectives; physiotherapy; pilot; practice; private; process; qualitative; research; role; sarah; schedule; setting; south; study; support; system; themes; time; understanding; work
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- ajod-22
- author: None
- title: ajod-22
- date: None
- words: 4545
- flesch: 31
- summary: The terms used to search for literature included rehabilitation service, facilitators and barriers, physically disabled, rehabilitation service providers and user satisfaction. Article Information Authors: Nondwe B. Mlenzana1 Jose M. Frantz1 Anthea J. Rhoda1 Arne H. Eide2,3 Affiliations: 1Faculty of Community and Health Sciences, University of the Western Cape, South Africa2SINTEF Technology and Society, Oslo, Norway 3Extraordinary Professor, Centre for Rehabilitation Studies, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Correspondence to: Nondwe Mlenzana Postal address: Private Bag X17, Bellville 7530, South Africa Dates: Received: 12 Mar. 2012 Accepted: 17 July 2013 Published: 19 Sept. 2013 How to cite this article: Mlenzana, N.B., Frantz, J.M., Rhoda, A.J. & Eide, A.H., 2013, ‘Barriers to and facilitators of rehabilitation services for people with physical disabilities: A systematic review’, African Journal of Disability 2(1), Art.
- keywords: access; africa; approach; articles; authors; barriers; care; clients; community; contextual; criteria; critical; data; disabilities; disability; disabled; education; extraction; facilitators; factors; health; icf; important; individual; information; lack; literature; medicine; need; order; participants; patients; people; personal; phc; physical; physical disabilities; population; process; professionals; qualitative; quality; rehabilitation; rehabilitation services; review; search; services; social; south; stroke; studies; study; systematic; table; understanding; world; years
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- ajod-220
- author: Office, Editorial
- title: Acknowledgement to reviewers
- date: 2015-08-31
- words: 374
- flesch: 41
- summary: We would like to take this opportunity to thank all reviewers who participated in shaping this issue of the African Journal of Disability: Annie Synnot Arvin Bhana Brian Watermeyer Catherine Ward Diana Rose Graham Lindegger Janieke van Nugteren Jason R. Bantjes Johan Malan Juliet R.H. Wakefield Karen Lazar Kees van der Waal Lana van Niekerk Marguerite Schneider Michelle Botha Patrick Devlieger Quinette Louw Richard Walker Romy Parker Rose Richards Sandro Vento Seana Gall Sharon Kleintjes Simate Simate Siri Wormnaes Stine Braathen Surona Visagie Vic McKinney 117 As such, the identification and selection of reviewers who have expertise and interest in the topics appropriate to each manuscript are essential elements in ensuring a timely, productive peer review process.
- keywords: african; details; disability; interest; journal; manuscript; peer; process; publication; reviewer; van
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- ajod-222
- author: None
- title: ajod-222
- date: None
- words: 6585
- flesch: 45
- summary: (2015) found that users in Zimbabwe were much less satisfied with their wheelchairs, wheelchair services and function in their wheelchairs than wheelchair users in resourced settings. Wheelchair users commented positively on provider knowledge and associated this with improved satisfaction with wheelchair services.
- keywords: adult; african; appropriate; areas; assistive; available; basic; children; clinics; cmsp; comprehensive; data; delivery; design; disability; evaluation; features; female; figure; focus; folding; follow; frame; function; guidelines; health; impact; implementation; improved; improvement; journal; maintenance; male; manual; mobility; needs; new; participants; participation; post; posture; pre; project; providers; provision; qualitative; quest; ratings; rehabilitation; research; resourced; rural; satisfaction; satisfied; service; settings; significant; south; studies; study; support; table; technology; test; time; training; transport; university; users; visagie; wheelchair; wheelchair features; wheelchair services; wheelchair users; zimbabwe
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- ajod-223
- author: None
- title: ajod-223
- date: None
- words: 4264
- flesch: 40
- summary: Because the results of this study indicated that PEDS and PEDS tools are able to accurately detect socio–emotional developmental delays in infants, these tools may possibly aid in the early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders in PHC. This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of the Parents’ Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS), PEDS-Developmental Milestones and PEDS tools to detect communication delays in infants (6–12 months) in a South African primary healthcare context.
- keywords: accuracy; africa; audiology; children; communication; communication delays; concerns; context; delays; department; developmental; disorders; domain; early; emotional; expressive; factors; fail; glascoe; health; healthcare; high; infants; journal; language; low; months; parents; pathology; peds; peds tools; population; present; pretoria; receptive; research; results; risk; ritls; rossetti; sample; screening; sensitivity; socio; south; south africa; specific; specificity; speech; study; test; tools; university; years; young
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- ajod-227
- author: None
- title: ajod-227
- date: None
- words: 9167
- flesch: 34
- summary: Such information is important evidence to consider appropriate ways forward for the development of communication disability rehabilitation services and stimulating dialogue on the best ways for the profession of SLTs to work in an African context. Who are the right workers for communication disability rehabilitation?
- keywords: african; african nationality; australia; cbr; characteristics; communication; communication disability; communication rehabilitation; community; countries; country; critical; cultural; culture; data; davidson; development; disabilities; disability; education; entry; et al; experience; figure; foreign; global; health; health organization; health workforce; human; information; international; issues; journal; key; language; language therapy; level; likely; local; majority; marshall; mdn; medical; minority; model; nationality; nationals; non; number; organization; outside; participants; pathology; people; profession; project; pwcd; qualifications; range; region; rehabilitation; rehabilitation services; related; relevant; republic; research; residence; respondents; sample; sampling; september; services; slts; small; social; south; speech; ssa; stability; study; survey; therapy; training; uganda; united; university; use; workers; workforce; world; world health; wylie; years
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- ajod-229
- author: None
- title: ajod-229
- date: None
- words: 7833
- flesch: 38
- summary: The participants did not want to be seen as ‘different’, but rather viewed themselves as normal hearing university students. Diane Bell School of Business, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Arend Carl Faculty of Education, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Estelle Swart Faculty of Education, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Citation Bell, D., Carl, A. & Swart, E., 2016, ‘Students with hearing impairment at a South African university: Self-identity and disclosure’, African Journal of Disability 5(1), a229.
- keywords: academic; access; africa; article; assumed; barriers; bell; choice; cochlear; communication; cultural; culture; data; deaf; deaf education; deaf identity; deafness; department; development; disabilities; disability; disabled; disclosure; dsd; education; experiences; findings; government; group; hearing; hearing identity; hearing impairment; higher; higher education; identity; impairment; implants; important; individual; journal; language; learning; loss; method; model; needs; non; normal; oral; order; participants; participation; people; personal; persons; place; qualitative; reason; research; rights; sage; self; social; society; south; south africa; speech; strategies; students; studies; study; success; support; teaching; theory; unit; universities; university; use; world
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- ajod-23
- author: None
- title: ajod-23
- date: None
- words: 3481
- flesch: 25
- summary: A primary concern in the context of intellectual disability research is that participants may not understand what their involvement in a study entails, and are then unable to meet the criteria for providing informed consent (Allan 2011; Dye et al., 2004; London et al., 2011). Barton, L., 2006, ‘Emancipatory research and disabled people: Some observations and questions’, Educational Review 57, 317–327, viewed 5 June 2012, from http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131910500149325 Cameron, L. & Murphy, J., 2006, ‘Obtaining consent to participate in research: The issues involved in including people with a range of learning and communication abilities’, British Journal of Learning Disabilities 35, 113-120, viewed 18 February 2012, from http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-3156.2006.00404.x Carr, A., O’Reilly, G., Walsh, P. & McEvoy, J., 2010, The handbook of intellectual disability and clinical psychology practice, Routledge, Hove. Dye, L., Hendy, S., Hare, D. & Burton, M., 2004, ‘Capacity to consent to participate in research – A recontextualization’, British Journal of Learning Disabilities 32, 144–150, viewed 18 Fenruary 2012, from http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-3156.2004.00262.x French, S. & Swain, J., 1997, ‘Changing disability research: Participating and emancipatory research with disabled people’, Physiotherapy 83, 26–32, viewed 5 June 2012, from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0031-9406(05)66107-X Gilbert, T. 2004, ‘Involving people with learning disabilities in research: Issues and possibilities’, Health & Social Care in the Community 12, 298–308, viewed 18 February 2012, from http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2524.2004.00499.x, PMid:15272885 Grisso, T. & Applebaum, P.S., 1988, Assessing competence to consent to treatment, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
- keywords: adults; africa; allan; article; authors; capacity; care; consent; cook; decision; disabilities; disability; dye; ethical; health; human; impaired; impairment; individuals; information; informed; inglis; intellectual; journal; june; kittay; learning; london; marzano; need; participants; participation; people; process; research; researchers; right; rsa; services; social; south; studies; swartz; unethical; walmsley
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- ajod-231
- author: None
- title: ajod-231
- date: None
- words: 6028
- flesch: 35
- summary: Abstract Background: Clinical assessment of hypotonia is challenging due to the subjective nature of the initial clinical evaluation. The research question posed was how clinical assessment can be improved, given the current contentions expressed in the scientific literature.
- keywords: action; algorithm; analysis; approach; aspects; assessment; authors; body; characteristics; children; clinical; clinical algorithm; clinical assessment; clinicians; consensus; criteria; critique; current; data; decision; development; diagnosis; disability; early; evaluation; evidence; experience; findings; focus; group; health; holistic; hypotonia; icf; impairment; initial; international; intervention; joubert; journal; khalil; knowledge; literature; loop; making; martin; methods; muscle; naidoo; national; nature; number; occupational; paediatric; paper; participants; participation; physical; practice; practitioners; process; prototype; qualitative; reflection; research; sage; south; specific; structure; study; symbol; table; tests; therapists; therapy; tone; use; user
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- ajod-237
- author: None
- title: ajod-237
- date: None
- words: 8159
- flesch: 42
- summary: It was decided to specify the options as follow: child support, care dependency, foster care or combined foster and care dependency grants. Abstract Introduction Research method and design Results Discussion Conclusions Acknowledgements References Appendix 1 Footnotes About the Author(s) Karlien Spangenberg Children with Severe and Profound Intellectual Disabilities Inclusive Education Outreach Team, Western Cape Department of Education, South Africa Lieselotte Corten Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa Winnie van Rensburg Children with Severe and Profound Intellectual Disabilities Inclusive Education Outreach Team, Western Cape Department of Education, South Africa Elizma Kilian Children with Severe and Profound Intellectual Disabilities Inclusive Education Outreach Team, Western Cape Department of Education, South Africa Judith McKenzie Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa Hein Vorster Children with Severe and Profound Intellectual Disabilities Inclusive Education Outreach Team, Western Cape Department of Education, South Africa Jennifer Jelsma Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa Citation Spangenberg, K., Corten, L., van Rensburg, W., Kilian, E., McKenzie, J., Vorster, H., et al., 2016, ‘The validation of an educational database for children with profound intellectual disabilities’, African Journal of Disability 5(1), a237.
- keywords: access; activities; adaptive; africa; appropriate; areas; assessment; authority; authors; available; basic; cape; care; centres; children; classification; collection; communication; condition; cspid; curriculum; data; database; department; development; disabilities; disability; education; framework; function; functioning; gmfcs; gross; health; impairments; inclusion; individual; information; intellectual; intellectual disability; intervention; items; language; learning; level; macs; mckenzie; medical; members; motor; national; need; number; paper; performance; physical; pilot; process; profound; qualifications; rehabilitation; research; results; routine; scales; sccs; score; self; sensory; service; set; severe; social; south; study; subject; support; system; table; team; terms; therapeutic; time; town; transport; university; use; useful; weefim; western; years
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- ajod-248
- author: None
- title: ajod-248
- date: None
- words: 6026
- flesch: 44
- summary: Participants A convenient sample of 29 children with disabilities (18 boys and 11 girls), with a mean age of 8.69 (±2.22) attending THR sessions, was selected. All participants attended THR sessions at the Ridge Top Equine Centre, KwaZulu-Natal, but were recruited from different schools.
- keywords: able; activity; analysis; article; autism; ccv; cerebral; changes; children; data; differences; disabilities; domain; effects; family; figure; findings; frequency; group; heart; horseback; hrv; improved; increase; interval; intervention; journal; life; measurements; occupational; palsy; parasympathetic; parents; participants; performance; play; post; pre; preand; questionnaire; rate; research; riding; sample; sessions; significant; skills; social; stress; study; taskforce; therapeutic; therapy; thr; thr intervention; thr sessions; time; variability; week
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- author: None
- title: ajod-25
- date: None
- words: 5561
- flesch: 38
- summary: Article Information Authors: Jill Hanass-Hancock1 Ilaria Regondi1 Kerisha Naidoo1 Affiliations: 1Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division (HEARD), University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Correspondence to: Jill Hanass-Hancock Postal address: HEARD, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus J Block, Durban 4041, South Africa Dates: Received: 27 Mar. 2012 Accepted: 19 Jan. 2013 Published: 12 Feb. 2013 How to cite this article: Hanass-Hancock, J., Regondi, I. & Naidoo, K., 2013, ‘Disability and HIV: What drives this relationship in Eastern and Southern Africa?’, African Journal of Disability 2(1), Art. In This Opinion Paper... Open Access • Abstract • Introduction • Factors driving disability • Disability and HIV: Pathways and interactions • Existing literature and scope for further research • Policy Implications • Conclusion • Acknowledgments • Competing Interests • Authors' contributions • References • Footnote Abstract Top ↑ The Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) region is the epicentre of the global HIV epidemic and also home to a large number of people with disabilities.
- keywords: access; africa; aids; analysis; available; bank; conference; countries; data; development; disabilities; disability; disability prevalence; eastern; economic; education; esa; et al; factors; figure; global; hanass; hancock; handicap; health; high; hiv; human; indicator; international; journal; life; link; literature; meintjes; myezwa; nixon; paper; people; policy; population; poverty; prevalence; region; rehabilitation; related; relationship; report; research; review; risk; rohleder; social; socio; south; southern; studies; swartz; treatment; unaids; world
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- ajod-252
- author: None
- title: ajod-252
- date: None
- words: 7233
- flesch: 45
- summary: One of the main reasons for this omission is that disability issues are still regarded as charity issues; hence, funding for sexual reproductive health of women with disabilities is still a challenge (Kabzems & Chimedza 2002). In Canada, it is largely assumed that women with disabilities will transfer their disabilities to the unborn child; hence, to break this circle of having children with disabilities women with disabilities are discouraged from giving birth.
- keywords: access; activities; aids; attitudes; barriers; care; centres; challenges; children; chitungwiza; consent; convention; data; deaf; development; disabilities; disability; disabled; discrimination; female; government; groce; health; health services; hiv; hospitals; human; impaired; information; international; interviews; issues; journal; language; maphosa; nations; needs; negative; nurses; old; participant; people; persons; physical; policy; privacy; reproductive; reproductive health; reproductive rights; research; respondents; rights; rugoho; services; sexual; sexual reproductive; sexuality; sign; social; sterilisation; studies; study; town; united; women; world; year; zimbabwe
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- ajod-254
- author: None
- title: ajod-254
- date: None
- words: 7569
- flesch: 59
- summary: Goodley, D. & Tregaskis, C., 2006, ‘Storying disability and impairment: Retrospective accounts of disabled family life’, Qualitative Health Research 16, 630–646. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687590801953937 Traustadottir, R., 1991, ‘Mothers who care: “Gender, disability, and family life”’, Journal of Family Issues 12(2), 211–228.
- keywords: activities; addition; analysis; anna; baby; care; challenges; children; clean; clothes; community; cultural; daily; daughter; disabilities; disability; disabled; disabled children; dramas; events; everyday; experience; families; family; field; fieldwork; god; grandmother; green; health; help; home; hope; hospital; house; inter; jackson; josephine; life; lives; local; love; malawi; mattingly; mckeever; meaning; medicine; members; miller; milo; mother; narrative; need; people; personal; practice; press; process; rehabilitation; research; results; short; sister; situation; small; social; society; stories; study; subjective; support; system; time; university; village; way; world
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- ajod-255
- author: None
- title: ajod-255
- date: None
- words: 10097
- flesch: 38
- summary: The main premise of this framework considers how physical, social, political and emotional barriers impact on the individual’s ability to access community services for participation. This study targeted the district of uGu, in KZN, because it represents a typical district level site where UKZN OT graduates provide community service.
- keywords: abuse; access; activities; africa; analysis; april; areas; assistant; barriers; cape; care; caregivers; challenges; children; chws; clinics; communities; community; community focus; community service; context; daily; data; delivery; department; development; disabilities; disability; disabled; district; doh; duncan; education; example; family; female; focus; government; group; health; health services; healthcare; human; implementation; inclusion; income; intervention; interviews; journal; kwazulu; kzn; lack; level; life; living; local; lorenzo; marginalisation; members; natal; need; occupational; opportunities; order; ots; paper; participants; people; person; phc; physical; policies; policy; poverty; practice; prevention; primary; promotion; pwds; rehabilitation; research; rights; role; rural; schneider; schools; semi; services; social; south; structured; study; support; system; themes; therapists; therapy; town; training; transport; ugu; university; urban; van; visagie; work; working
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- ajod-257
- author: None
- title: ajod-257
- date: None
- words: 11636
- flesch: 46
- summary: Students’ coping mechanisms In the absence of support from the university or when it is limited, students with disabilities come to depend on their peers to access curricula. Students who fail to copy notes and students with visual impairments are not compensated (Dworkin 1981; Gewirtz 1998; Rawls 1971) with soft or hard copy notes.
- keywords: academic; access; accommodation; admission; analysis; approach; barriers; books; braille; capabilities; case; challenges; classes; computers; curricula; data; deaf; depth; different; disabilities; disability; disabled; discussions; distributive; education; equality; equity; examinations; experiences; face; faculty; failure; female; focus; groups; heis; higher; higher education; impairments; inclusion; individuals; information; institution; internet; interviews; issues; journal; justice; karabo; lack; learning; lecturers; lesotho; level; library; male; national; needs; non; notes; opportunities; opportunity; paper; participant; participation; particular; peers; physical; policies; policy; practices; programmes; qualitative; questions; read; research; resources; sena; services; social; south; special; staff; states; students; studies; study; support; teaching; technology; tests; themes; time; university; use; visual; writing
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- ajod-264
- author: None
- title: ajod-264
- date: None
- words: 9022
- flesch: 42
- summary: This situation ultimately creates a gap in the provision of evidence of the impact of interventions given to such children in the regions of sub-Saharan Africa. The statements that were pooled were a homogeneous collection of functional items around the three main domains of self-care, mobility and social function.
- keywords: africa; alpha; analysis; appropriate; bifida; care; caregivers; children; choice; clinical; clinicians; coefficient; communication; content; content validity; current; cvis; data; development; disabilities; disability; domains; et al; evaluation; evidence; expert; fgds; focus; functional; generation; group; health; hydrocephalus; impact; instrument; interventions; interviews; items; journal; level; management; measure; measuring; medicine; methods; mobility; months; mweshi; new; number; objective; order; outcomes; parents; participants; participation; pedi; physiotherapists; process; ratings; rehabilitation; relevant; research; researchers; results; review; scale; scores; section; self; semi; skills; social; specialists; spina; statements; structured; studies; study; sub; systematic; table; tool; total; university; use; validation; validity; waltz; weefim; years; youths; zambia; zsbfm
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- ajod-265
- author: None
- title: ajod-265
- date: None
- words: 7878
- flesch: 31
- summary: The aim of our study was to identify early childhood disabilities in children aged 24–48 months in a rural area of South Africa, to determine the appropriateness of these instruments for population-based surveillance in similar contexts internationally. Consequently, children younger than 5 years have been excluded, resulting in insufficient current statistical data regarding the prevalence of early childhood disabilities internationally (Statistics South Africa 2014a).
- keywords: africa; age; ages; appropriate; asq; assessment; bloemfontein; carers; census; childhood; childhood disability; children; clinical; community; comparable; countries; data; delays; department; development; disabilities; disability; disability statistics; district; early; epidemiological; et al; faculty; free; functioning; future; general; grant; group; health; household; icf; iii; information; instruments; international; journal; level; madans; measurement; measures; module; national; occupational; order; parent; participants; population; primary; questionnaire; questions; research; results; rights; rural; sassa; schneider; sciences; screening; sensitivity; services; social; sound; south; south africa; specific; specificity; stages; state; statistics; statistics south; studies; study; surveillance; surveys; therapy; unicef; unicef module; university; washington; world; years
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- ajod-266
- author: None
- title: ajod-266
- date: None
- words: 8570
- flesch: 37
- summary: Abstract Background: This paper elucidates a methodological approach to interview text that tries to acknowledge the psychosocial nature of disability and thereby ensuring that empirical work in disability studies complements theoretical arguments already developed. Objectives: To summarise, we have above been describing a psychosocial theoretical perspective from which to view subjectivity in disability studies.
- keywords: affective; analysis; approach; attachment; attention; caregivers; childhood; children; concept; contemporary; context; critical; dependency; developmental; different; disabilities; disability; disabled; disabled children; discourses; discursive; early; eds; emotional; emphasis; encounter; experience; fonagy; frosh; functioning; health; impairment; important; individual; interventions; interview; irene; james; jessie; journal; kittay; london; maternal; mentalisation; mentalising; mind; model; mothers; new; non; outside; parents; particular; people; perspective; position; prejudice; psychoanalysis; psychological; psychology; psychosocial; questions; reading; relationship; research; saville; shakespeare; social; social model; society; studies; study; subjectivity; theory; unconscious; understanding; watermeyer; ways; work; young
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- ajod-267
- author: None
- title: ajod-267
- date: None
- words: 10016
- flesch: 49
- summary: There has been no study carried out in Zambia to explore the experiences of mothers of children with NTDs in relation to accessing health care services. When asked about accessibility of health care services near their homes, mothers who lived near the first or second level hospitals indicated that they would not have any problems with access, but mothers who lived far from these hospitals expressed concerns about transport to these facilities.
- keywords: acceptability; access; accessibility; adeleye; affordability; africa; analysis; areas; availability; available; baby; barriers; bifida; birth; care; children; clinic; costs; countries; data; defects; demand; distance; economic; encephalocele; et al; experiences; facilities; facility; factor; family; findings; food; geographical; government; health; health care; health facility; health services; home; hospital; hydrocephalus; income; information; international; interviews; jacobs; journal; lack; level; level hospital; local; lowand; lumbar; lusaka; medical; middle; money; mothers; myelomeningocele; need; nervous; neural; ntds; parents; peters; poor; prevalence; qualitative; referral; relatives; reported; research; review; rural; secondary; services; south; spina; studies; study; supply; support; surgery; surgical; systematic; tertiary; time; transport; tube; uganda; university; use; uth; ward; women; workers; years; zambia
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- ajod-273
- author: None
- title: ajod-273
- date: None
- words: 6308
- flesch: 46
- summary: In addition, there were often marked changes in individual clients’ communicative and physical functioning, which in turn encouraged carers to find new and different ways to interact with, and stimulate, the persons with PIMD in their care. Initially it was used as a calming space to manage behaviour when individual clients were overwrought but over time it became a reward for good behaviour.
- keywords: action; activities; adults; africa; approach; area; article; campaign; cape; carers; centres; chaeli; chairs; children; clients; communication; contexts; course; daily; day; development; different; disabilities; disability; group; health; ideas; income; individual; intellectual; interdisciplinary; journal; learning; life; low; management; mcconkey; members; multiple; needs; new; obstacle; opportunities; outcomes; persons; physical; pimd; play; possible; profound; programmes; research; residential; routine; sensory; settings; simple; small; south; specific; staff; stimulation; support; systems; team; therapy; time; town; training; use; visitors; western; work
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- ajod-274
- author: None
- title: ajod-274
- date: None
- words: 8555
- flesch: 47
- summary: Lack of appropriate services for disabled children such as community-based rehabilitation (CBR) was a barrier to independence, limiting ADL skills resulting in total dependency on caregivers. Using the capabilities lens, structural violence served to eliminate the capabilities of families with disabled children, and ultimately the children themselves.
- keywords: access; activities; affected; aid; anguish; approach; article; binga; capabilities; caregivers; cerebral; challenges; children; chronic; communities; community; context; country; cultural; data; depth; development; disabilities; disability; disabled; disabled children; displacement; district; economic; education; eide; evidence; families; family; food; government; group; health; healthcare; hiv; home; human; infections; informants; ingstad; international; interviews; journal; kariba; lack; life; lives; living; loss; malnutrition; married; mother; muderedzi; new; norway; old; open; oslo; palsy; participant; people; political; politics; poor; poverty; press; problems; qualitative; research; resources; rights; river; sanitation; school; sen; services; situation; social; society; structural; structural violence; study; suffering; support; time; tonga; university; violence; water; wild; women; world; year; young; zambezi; zimbabwe
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- ajod-277
- author: None
- title: ajod-277
- date: None
- words: 7389
- flesch: 43
- summary: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7717.1994.tb00314.x Mirza, M., 2013, ‘Disability and cross-border mobility: Comparing resettlement experiences of Cambodian and Somalian refugees with disabilities’, in M. Moore (ed.), Moving beyond boundaries in disability studies: Article 11 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities emphasises measures to protect the safety of people with disabilities during armed conflict and natural disasters (UN 2006).
- keywords: absence; access; accessing; aid; boy; burden; caregiving; carers; caring; centre; challenges; children; community; complex; conflict; context; county; crisis; cross; day; difficult; disabilities; disability; disabled; district; environmental; families; family; father; food; health; help; home; humanitarian; hygiene; impact; impairment; income; international; interviews; kenya; key; lake; likely; limited; livestock; living; london; medicine; money; mother; need; nutrition; old; organization; pastoralist; people; physical; poverty; programmes; rehabilitation; report; research; school; services; settings; small; social; society; stigma; study; support; survey; systems; treatment; tropical; turkana; vulnerability; water; women; work; world; years
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- ajod-280
- author: None
- title: ajod-280
- date: None
- words: 9369
- flesch: 43
- summary: (Person with physical disability, male, peer supporter and temporary employment Participants highlighted that these issues are worse for people with physical disabilities in rural areas. A review of the new developed policies with regard to their inclusion of disability services and accessibility seems to be urgently needed.
- keywords: 2015; access; accessible; additional; africa; areas; article; assistant; assistive; available; banks; blind; care; community; costs; countries; day; deaf; department; development; devices; disabilities; disability; discussion; diverse; economic; education; employment; essential; facilities; female; framework; goals; grant; groups; health; health care; home; households; housing; income; intellectual; international; kwazulu; life; male; mechanisms; mics; mitra; natal; needs; new; office; opportunity; participants; participation; particular; people; persons; physical; pocket; polack; poverty; protection; related; research; rights; rural; services; severe; social; south; south africa; study; support; survival; technology; time; transport; university; use; vulnerability; work; world
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- ajod-283
- author: None
- title: ajod-283
- date: None
- words: 9393
- flesch: 42
- summary: In this study, most of the children with learning disabilities were raised by single, unemployed parents who seemed to have access to less support from external sources than married couples parenting children with learning disabilities. Flack (2005:318) mentions inherent difficulties in defining learning disabilities, but presents ‘learners with special educational needs’ and what she describes as ‘the more in vogue, learners with barriers to learning’ as possible definitions.
- keywords: abosi; access; african; analysis; available; beliefs; caregivers; challenges; children; class; communities; community; context; cultural; development; disabilities; disability; economic; education; emotional; experience; face; families; family; fathers; financial; findings; following; fouché; general; government; health; human; impairments; information; interviews; journal; knowledge; lack; lds; learning; level; london; married; members; ministry; model; mother; namibia; needs; old; oliver; opuwo; parenting; parents; participants; people; perceptions; persons; policies; policy; poor; poverty; pretoria; programmes; qualitative; republic; research; researchers; resources; rights; school; services; single; social; social workers; society; south; study; support; teacher; understanding; unemployed; university; welfare; windhoek; workers; year
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- ajod-288
- author: None
- title: ajod-288
- date: None
- words: 8445
- flesch: 37
- summary: In all, wheelchair standards tests consist of durability, safety and performance tests along with measurement and reporting of wheelchair dimensions and characteristics. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638280500167563 Phillips, B. & Zhao, H., 1993, ‘Predictors of assistive technology abandonment’, Assistive Technology 5(1), 36–45. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400435.1993.10132205 Reese, N. & Rispin, K., 2015, ‘Assessing wheelchair breakdowns in Kenya to inform wheelchair test standards for low-resource settings’, in Proceedings of the 2015 RESNA Annual Conference, Denver, CO, June 10–14, 2015.
- keywords: additional; ansi; appropriate; armstrong; articles; assistive; borg; breakdowns; castor; conditions; conference; cooper; corrosion; countries; designs; development; different; durability; engineering; environments; et al; evaluation; evidence; experts; failures; field; figure; fitzgerald; group; guidelines; health; high; hotchkiss; impact; international; iso; iso standards; iso testing; iswp; jacobs; journal; khasnabis; lack; literature; low; lres; m.l; maintenance; manual; members; methods; mobility; models; need; new; oderud; organization; parts; pearlman; performance; pittsburgh; products; professionals; provision; quality; r.a; reese; rehabilitation; repairs; requirements; research; resna; resourced; results; review; rispin; service; sheldon; society; standardization; standards; states; studies; study; swg; table; technology; testing; tests; toro; toro et; training; united; university; use; user; visagie; wheelchair; wheelchair professionals; wheelchair standards; wheelchair testing; work; world
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- ajod-292
- author: None
- title: ajod-292
- date: None
- words: 6995
- flesch: 39
- summary: The quest for African disability rights activism’, in A. De Waal (ed.), In African disability studies, more attention is needed to understand how colonial and postcolonial violence become linked to present-day oppression, disablement and loss of life through processes of direct, cultural and structural violence (Galtung & Fischer 2013).
- keywords: actions; activism; activists; african; aids; apartheid; change; collective; common; community; context; cultural; decolonisation; democracy; disability; disabled; disablement; discourses; diversity; ecological; environmental; ethical; ethics; example; experience; finkelstein; forms; future; global; government; health; history; hiv; humanity; humanness; impairment; implications; important; individual; international; invisible; justice; life; louw; maathai; medical; model; movement; ogoni; oppression; order; organisations; peace; people; philosophy; physical; political; practices; responsibilities; restorative; rights; saro; shared; social; society; south; south african; spiritual; state; studies; terms; ubuntu; understanding; unep; violence; wider; wiwa; world
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- ajod-294
- author: None
- title: ajod-294
- date: None
- words: 6274
- flesch: 50
- summary: Community health workers in South Africa Key members of the PHC outreach teams are community health workers (CHWs), defined as ‘people chosen within a community to perform functions related to healthcare delivery, who have no formal professional training or degree’ (Van Ginneken, Lewin & Berridge 2010:1110). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1614-0 Van Ginneken, N., Lewin, S. & Berridge, V., 2010, ‘The emergence of community health worker programmes in the late apartheid era in South Africa: An historical analysis’, Social Science and Medicine 71(6), 1110–1118.
- keywords: able; africa; area; care; chw programme; chws; clear; communities; community; community health; councillors; data; delivery; department; design; development; doh; education; employment; experience; feedback; female; focus; formal; govender; government; grade; groups; health; healthcare; home; information; interviews; jinabhai; job; knowledge; kwazulu; lack; level; members; mental; method; money; natal; national; needs; outreach; participant; people; person; phc; policies; policy; poor; population; primary; programme; qualifications; report; research; roles; service; skills; south; south africa; stipend; study; supervision; supervisors; support; survey; time; training; understanding; use; ward; workers; working
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- ajod-298
- author: None
- title: ajod-298
- date: None
- words: 6022
- flesch: 28
- summary: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v5i1.189 Nuwagaba, E.L. & Rule, P.N., 2016, ‘An adult learning perspective on disability and microfinance: The case of Katureebe’, African Journal of Disability 5(1), a215, https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v5i1.215 O’Brien, J. & Dempsey, I., 2004, ‘Comparative analysis of employment services for people with disabilities in Australia, Finland and Sweden’, Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities 1(3/4), 126–135. This appraisal of the international literature concluded though that the majority of reported studies were focused on disability employment in general, with less attention to youth with disabilities.
- keywords: access; africa; analysis; available; competitive; countries; department; development; disabilities; disability; disabled; documents; economic; education; effective; employers; employment; engelbrecht; evidence; focused; framework; global; group; health; high; ilo; information; international; journal; knowledge; labour; levels; literature; local; low; market; mechanisms; micro; model; need; niekerk; opportunities; outcomes; participation; people; policies; policy; practice; programmes; public; rehabilitation; reports; research; review; school; services; skills; social; south africa; state; statistics; strategy; support; synthesis; training; transition; transitioning; usa; van; vocational; work; work transition; world; youth
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- ajod-30
- author: None
- title: ajod-30
- date: None
- words: 4565
- flesch: 34
- summary: Considering that culture is the ‘lens’ through which a person perceives, interprets and makes sense of his or her reality, if we speak of the inclusion of African indigenous knowledge in any investigation, we would be speaking about the examination of African reality from the perspective of the African and not with the African on the periphery. It is prudent to say that African indigenous knowledge is not without limitations.
- keywords: african; african indigenous; african knowledge; afrocentric; afrocentricity; asante; authors; collective; community; context; contributions; cultural; culture; development; disability; disability research; disabled; education; ghana; health; human; indigenous; indigenous knowledge; international; investigation; journal; knowledge; methodology; methods; mkabela; mpofu; new; nsamenang; owusu; paper; paradigm; participatory; pence; people; persons; perspective; poverty; process; psychology; reality; research; sarpong; scholars; science; self; sense; social; society; systems; understanding; university; values; ways; western; world; worldview
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- ajod-300
- author: None
- title: ajod-300
- date: None
- words: 7721
- flesch: 40
- summary: The country provides a variety of social security grants (Figure 1) including the Old age grant (OAG), disability grant (DG) (available since 1946), foster care grant (FCG), care dependency grant (CDG), child support grant (CSG) and grant-in-aid (GIA). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133623 Phaswana-Mafuya, N., Peltzer, K. & Petros, S.G., 2009, ‘Disability grant for people living with HIV/AIDS in the Eastern Cape of South Africa’, Social Work in Health Care 48(5), 533–550.
- keywords: access; addition; africa; alliance; analysis; average; care; cdg; costs; countries; data; degrees; department; development; difficulties; disabilities; disability; earn; economic; education; eligibility; employment; evidence; figure; ghs; gia; grant; group; hanass; hancock; health; higher; households; impact; income; individuals; international; labour; level; likely; mechanisms; mitra; need; new; office; opportunity; paper; people; poverty; process; protection; questions; research; set; severe; severe disabilities; short; social; social protection; south; south africa; study; support; survey; table; terms; type; vulnerability; work; world; years
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- ajod-307
- author: None
- title: ajod-307
- date: None
- words: 8085
- flesch: 51
- summary: Children in the THR programme improved their social confidence and enjoyed interaction with other children, as reported by their parents. The participative environment and opportunity to interact with other children with similar disabilities also have a positive effect on social functioning (Lessick et al. 2004).
- keywords: activities; activity; african; analysis; animal; author; autism; cerebral; children; confidence; data; disabilities; disability; effects; equine; et al; experiences; focus; following; happiness; health; horse; horseback; important; improved; improvement; intellectual; interviews; involved; jenny; journal; lessons; literature; motor; movement; old; palsy; parents; participants; participation; people; perceptions; physical; posture; programme; psychological; psychology; qualitative; research; results; riding; rufus; sarda; scialli; self; service; social; south; study; therapeutic; therapy; thr; thr programme; time; university; week; years; years old
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- ajod-31
- author: None
- title: ajod-31
- date: None
- words: 6102
- flesch: 35
- summary: Loeb, M.E., Eide, A.H., Jelsma, J., Ka’Toni, M. & Maart, S., 2008, ‘Poverty and disability in Eastern and Western Cape Provinces, SA’, Disability and Society 23(4), 311–321. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687590802038803 Madans, H.M., Loeb, M.E. & Altman, B., 2011, ‘Measuring disability and monitoring the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: The work of the Washington Group on Disability Statistics’, BMC Public Health 11(Suppl. 4), S4. UN, 2009, Realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities through the implementation of the World Program of Action Concerning Disabled Persons and the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, Report of the Secretary-General A/64/180, 64th session, United Nations, New York.
- keywords: a.h; africa; approach; article; authors; bristol; challenge; conditions; contexts; contributions; countries; cultural; design; development; differences; different; disabilities; disability; disabled; disabled people; economic; eds; efforts; eide; evidence; forces; global; health; household; important; individuals; ingstad; knowledge; level; living; loeb; mechanisms; national; oslo; people; persons; phenomena; policy; political; poor; poverty; press; qualitative; recent; relationship; report; representative; research; rights; services; sintef; situation; social; society; structural; studies; study; survey; understanding; world
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- ajod-311
- author: None
- title: ajod-311
- date: None
- words: 10770
- flesch: 34
- summary: As the DOH (2000, 2007) noted: ‘the main objective of Community Service internship by health professionals was to ensure improved provision of health services to all citizens of our country. Users of the public sector call for professionals to come to the communities to listen, learn and join hands with the users of health services at community level (Ned 2013).
- keywords: access; advocacy; africa; african health; approach; april; areas; basic; cape; case; challenges; clients; communities; community; community health; community level; community service; comprehensive; critical; delivery; department; determinants; development; disabilities; disability; disease; district; doh; dookie; education; et al; experience; focus; government; health; health care; health determinants; health promotion; health service; health system; healthcare; hess; human; ill; implementation; indigenous; integration; issues; journal; knowledge; lack; level; limited; mji; national; needs; new; participation; people; persons; phc; policies; policy; poor; practice; pretoria; prevention; primary; primary health; process; professionals; programmes; promotion; provision; public; public health; rehabilitation; rehabilitation professionals; rehabilitation services; resources; review; role; rural; sector; service; sherry; singh; skills; social; social health; south; south africa; strategy; study; system; therapists; training; understanding; university; users; wentzel; work; workers
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- ajod-316
- author: None
- title: ajod-316
- date: None
- words: 7621
- flesch: 37
- summary: https://doi.org/10.4314/sajhe.v18i1.25440 De Cesarei, A., 2015, ‘Psychological factors that foster or deter the disclosure of disability by university students’, Psychological Reports 116, 665–673. Instead of the assurance of service provision, this paper places the burden on disabled students to justify their right to be included in higher education in such a way that does not place economic burdens on higher education institutions.
- keywords: academic; access; african; attitudes; awareness; barriers; challenges; data; department; development; disabilities; disability; disabled; disabled students; education; environment; example; experiences; faculty; findings; framework; free; government; help; higher; higher education; important; inclusion; inclusive; individual; institutional; issues; journal; lack; learning; lecturers; lives; male; matters; national; needs; negative; paper; participation; people; perceptions; perspectives; policy; positive; prof; research; responsibility; rights; school; social; south; south african; staff; state; students; studies; study; support; swart; system; teaching; time; training; universities; university; white
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- ajod-318
- author: None
- title: ajod-318
- date: None
- words: 8759
- flesch: 47
- summary: Awareness is increasing wheelchair provision by trained personnel increases the chance that wheelchair users receive appropriate wheelchairs (Toro, Eke & Pearlman 2016). Research methods and design Design and locations This was a cross-sectional survey of wheelchair users in Kenya and the Philippines.
- keywords: adl; age; analysis; assessment; authors; basic; collection; community; confidence; cord; countries; country; current; current wheelchair; daily; daily wheelchair; data; delivery; design; development; disability; distribution; et al; falls; findings; fit; fold; follow; government; greater; health; high; information; injury; instrument; items; jhpiego; journal; kenya; kirby; level; local; manual; manual wheelchair; manuscript; measure; medicine; mobility; models; multivariable; national; need; non; odds; organisations; outcomes; outdoor; outputs; participants; people; performance; philippines; physical; problems; provider; provision; questions; r.l; rehabilitation; repairs; research; resourced; results; right; sample; services; settings; skills; spinal; stakeholders; study; survey; table; training; unassisted; university; use; users; variables; wheelchair; wheelchair services; wheelchair skills; wheelchair training; wheelchair use; years
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- ajod-319
- author: None
- title: ajod-319
- date: None
- words: 6947
- flesch: 49
- summary: https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-925X-12-83 Johnson, B.A., MacWilliams, B.A. & Stevenson, D.A., 2014, ‘Postural control in children with and without neurofibromatosis’, Human Movement Science 34, 157–163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humov.2014.01.008 Kalberg, W.O., Provost, B., Tollisen, S.J., Tabachnick, B.G., Robinson, L.K., Hoyme, E. et al., 2006, ‘Comparison of motor delays in young children with fetal alcohol syndrome to those with prenatal alcohol exposure and with no prenatal alcohol exposure’, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 30, 2037–2045. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.12033 May, P.A., Gossage, J.P., Kalberg, W.O., Robinson, L.K., Buckley, D., Manning, M. et al., 2009, ‘Prevalence and epidemiologic characteristics of FASD from various research methods with an emphasis on recent in-school studies’, Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews 15, 176–192.
- keywords: acceleration; accelerometry; africa; age; alcohol; analysis; balance; boys; cape; case; centre; children; closed; consent; control; cop; data; difference; direction; disorders; dynamic; et al; exposure; eyes; eyes open; fasd; feasibility; fetal; foot; forms; gender; girls; groups; imms; inertial; instructions; instruments; kegel; larger; leg; mat; mean; measurement; median; motor; movement; ols; open; outcomes; pae; parameters; parents; participants; pelvis; postural; pressure; range; research; rural; schools; segment; sensors; setting; sides; significant; south; spectrum; stability; standing; study; syndrome; table; task; time; town; trials; use; velocity
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- ajod-32
- author: None
- title: ajod-32
- date: None
- words: 10873
- flesch: 40
- summary: Competing interests • Author contributions • References Abstract Top ↑ When attempting to understand the construct of intellectual disability in different contexts, speaking to family members in addition to the individual with the disability may provide new insight about understandings of and responses to intellectual disability in society and may help to identify the forms of support that are available or needed to ensure the quality of life of people with disabilities. This article outlines and discusses interviews that were conducted in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, with family members of children and adults with intellectual disabilities.
- keywords: acceptance; act; addition; adults; advocacy; analysis; areas; article; aziza; caregivers; caregiving; child; children; commitment; community; coping; cure; dar; data; development; different; disabilities; disability; disability research; discussion; education; employment; example; experiences; families; family; family members; family strengths; family support; father; field; future; general; government; health; healthcare; help; home; important; individual; intellectual disability; international; interview; journal; june; life; literature; lives; marriage; members; mother; national; needs; notes; number; organisations; parents; people; perceptions; persons; policy; positive; primary; process; psychological; quality; questions; research; researchers; respondents; responses; responsibility; rights; salaam; social; society; specific; spiritual; stigma; strengths; stress; study; sub; support; tamh; tanzania; themes; turnbull; understanding; university; wellbeing; work
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- ajod-322
- author: None
- title: ajod-322
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- words: 7231
- flesch: 33
- summary: Globally, there is an urgent need to reconsider food access within our current understanding of food security. We believe that this connection may best be positioned as a food security concern, as in the case of people with disabilities, food security may be jeopardised by a range of issues from reduced mobility to the presence of feeding or swallowing disorders (dysphagia).
- keywords: access; africa; aid; analysis; asia; assistance; bank; caregivers; children; contexts; data; design; development; different; disabilities; disability; disorders; distribution; dysphagia; et al; experience; exposure; fao; feeding; figure; findings; focus; food; food access; food assistance; food security; framework; haws; hcps; health; humanitarian; hunger; inclusion; international; interviews; issues; journal; knowledge; management; mary; methods; nations; nutrition; nwanneka; organization; participants; people; physical; poor; poverty; programme; reduced; report; research; resource; respondents; responsibility; results; rights; risk; rome; saharan; security; social; southern; specific; status; study; sub; survey; swallowing; types; united; vulnerability; vulnerable; world
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- ajod-325
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- title: ajod-325
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- words: 6222
- flesch: 43
- summary: Conclusion: The findings of this study should enable inclusive communities’ policy-makers and researchers to better understand the psychological well-being of adolescents with physical disabilities living in inclusive communities. Participants responded to one-on-one interview questions based on a prepared interview schedule on how adolescents with physical disabilities construct their psychosocial well-being experiences in inclusive communities.
- keywords: acceptance; activities; adolescents; analysis; autonomy; chakuchichi; challenges; children; choice; choruma; communities; community; country; creswell; data; design; development; different; disabilities; disability; education; feelings; female; findings; gabre; growth; harare; health; hiv; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive communities; influence; interviews; journal; kahneman; learning; level; life; living; male; members; mpofu; mutamiswa; needs; open; participant; participation; people; personal; physical; physical disabilities; policy; positive; psychological; psychology; purpose; qualitative; relations; research; school; self; settings; social; studies; study; support; university; urban; years; zimbabwe
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- ajod-328
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- title: ajod-328
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- words: 8862
- flesch: 35
- summary: Even though definitions aim to explain disability and the various types, it is important to recognise that disability represents a range of medical and social conditions and a heterogeneous population, and failing to understand this diversity leads to stereotypical views that can negatively influence attitudes towards persons with disabilities (Wiggett-Barnard 2013). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2013.08.030 Wiggett-Barnard, C., 2013, ‘Disability employment attitudes and practices in South African companies: A survey and case studies’, PhD dissertation, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch. Wilson, M.C. & Scior, K., 2014, ‘Attitudes towards individuals with disabilities as measured by the Implicit Association Test: A literature review’, Research in Developmental Disabilities 35(2), 294–321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2013.11.003 World Health Organisation (WHO), 2016, Health topics: Disabilities, viewed 10 September 2016, from http://www.who.int/topics/disabilities/en/ Xaba, N.A., Peu, M.D. & Phiri, S.S., 2012, ‘Perceptions of registered nurses regarding factors influencing service delivery in expanding programmes in a primary healthcare setting’, Health SA Gesondheid 17(1), viewed 05 February 2014, from https://doi.org/10.4102/hsag.v17i1.535.4
- keywords: africa; analysis; association; attitudes; average; behavioural; care; case; cohen; concern; condition; consistency; contact; context; control; data; davis; developmental; differences; disabilities; disability; education; effect; emotional; empathic; empathy; experience; experimental; exposure; fantasy; findings; follow; future; game; gaming; gender; groups; health; iat; implicit; important; intellectual; interaction; internal; intervention; iri; items; journal; learning; level; main; mean; measures; negative; participants; people; personal; persons; perspective; possible; post; practical; prejudice; problems; psychological; psychology; psychology students; reliability; research; results; rights; scales; score; senior; services; short; significant; social; society; south; sterkenburg; strong; students; studies; study; sub; table; taking; teaching; term; test; time; university; use; value; van; world; year
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- ajod-33
- author: None
- title: ajod-33
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- words: 13318
- flesch: 37
- summary: Participants blamed government for not committing itself through dissemination of information about disability rights, developing policies and standards and enacting legislation, to initiate the removal of barriers in public buildings and spaces, homes or houses, and transportation services to protect the rights of PWML: ‘I use stairs when I am entering a building because I have no other choice. The absence of a system of reporting such violations of disability rights is another failure by government.
- keywords: accessibility; aged; areas; article; attitudes; barnes; barriers; buildings; central; children; choice; common; community; control; convention; countries; cultural; data; day; design; development; devices; dignity; disabilities; disability; disabled; discrimination; economic; education; employment; environment; example; experiences; facilities; family; female; figure; focus; government; group; hall; health; high; impact; impairment; important; imrie; inaccessible; individual; international; interviews; issues; journal; lack; life; lifestyle; limitations; living; locations; lusaka; male; mobility; nations; needs; negative; new; office; opportunities; participants; participation; people; personal; persons; physical; poverty; practice; preferred; process; provinces; public; pwd; pwml; qualitative; ramp; rehabilitation; related; research; results; rights; risks; rural; safety; school; self; services; social; society; spaces; stairs; statistical; study; support; time; toilet; training; transport; transportation; unemployed; united; university; urban; use; wheelchair; work; zambia
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- ajod-331
- author: None
- title: ajod-331
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- words: 4766
- flesch: 49
- summary: Abstract Introduction Methods Results Discussion Conclusion Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Karen L. Rispin Department of Biology, LeTourneau University, United States Kara Huff School of Rehabilitation Therapy, LeTourneau University, United States Joy Wee School of Rehabilitation Therapy, Queen’s University, Canada Citation Rispin, K.L., Huff, K. & Wee, J., 2017, ‘Test–retest reliability and construct validity of the Aspects of Wheelchair Mobility Test as a measure of the mobility of wheelchair users’, African Journal of Disability 6(0), a331. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v6i0.331 Original Research Test–retest reliability and construct validity of the Aspects of Wheelchair Mobility Test as a measure of the mobility of wheelchair users Karen L. Rispin, Kara Huff, Joy Wee Received: 21 Oct. 2016; Accepted: 16 May 2017; Published: 08 Sept. 2017 Copyright: © 2017.
- keywords: analogue; areas; assistive; awmt; capacity; comparative; concurrent; correlation; curb; data; different; dijkers; disability; distance; effectiveness; environments; heart; icc; journal; low; mean; measure; min; mobility; participants; physical; questionnaire; rate; rehabilitation; reliability; research; resource; results; retest; rispin; rolling; rough; scale; school; score; settings; smooth; studies; study; surface; technology; test; testing; tight; time; track; types; users; validity; visual; wee; wheelchair; wst
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- ajod-332
- author: None
- title: ajod-332
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- words: 8749
- flesch: 45
- summary: A portion of participants were long-term users of each of the types of study wheelchairs. High variation in capacity among wheelchair users can mask changes in mobility because of wheelchair design.
- keywords: age; analysis; anova; archives; areas; assessment; assistive; available; awmp; borg; chairs; comments; comparative; comparison; complete; cord; curb; data; design; development; differences; different; difficulty; disability; discriminatory; effectiveness; environments; et al; evaluation; exercise; fg2; figure; format; free; gravity; haven; heart; heart rate; hkc; hope; impact; individual; journal; kirby; length; location; long; low; manual; mean; measures; medicine; methods; mission; mobility; mrt; neto; participants; performance; physical; protocol; qualitative; rate; rehabilitation; reliability; research; resource; response; results; rispin; rolling; rough; school; significant; site; skills; smooth; spinal; statistical; studies; study; surfaces; technology; test; tight; time; track; types; users; validity; variation; vas; velocity; wee; wheelchair; wheelchair design; wheelchair types; wheelchair users; wrr
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- ajod-336
- author: None
- title: ajod-336
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- words: 10640
- flesch: 27
- summary: In other words, while the overarching question of higher education funding is a burning one, SWDs cannot simply be addressed as part of the wider debate. World Health Organization (WHO) & World Bank, 2011, World report on disability, World Health Organization, Geneva, viewed 10 June 2018, from http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2011/9789240685215_eng.pdf. Wilson-Strydom, M., 2015, ‘University access for social justice: A capabilities perspective’, Higher Education 69, 143–155. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-014-9766-5 Yang, L. & McCall, B., 2014, ‘World education finance policies and higher education access: A statistical analysis of world development indicators for 86 countries’, International Journal of Educational Development 35, 25–36.
- keywords: access; act; additional; africa; aid; analysis; approach; assistive; barriers; canada; canadian; challenges; commission; context; costs; countries; cuts; deaf; department; development; disabilities; disability; disability funding; disabled; discrimination; documents; dsa; economic; education funding; educational; employment; equal; equality; equipment; equity; federal; financial; funding; funding mechanisms; funds; global; government; grant; heis; higher education; human; impact; inclusion; inclusive education; increase; india; institutions; international; interpreters; journal; language; learning; levels; means; mechanisms; national; nations; needs; needs education; non; nsfas; number; october; oecd; ontario; opportunities; opportunity; organisation; paper; participation; people; persons; policies; policy; pretoria; private; programme; public; pwds; research; retention; rights; sampled; scheme; services; sign; skills; social; society; south; special; steele; students; studies; study; success; support; swds; time; training; transformation; unesco; united; universities; university; white; wolanin; world
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- ajod-337
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- title: ajod-337
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- words: 5396
- flesch: 34
- summary: Abstract Introduction Methodology Hierarchy of evidence and quality appraisal Results Discussion Evolution of wheelchair design Recommendations Conclusion Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Terry J. Ellapen School of Biokinetics Recreation and Sport, Physical Activity Sport and Recreation (PhASRec), North-West University, South Africa Henriëtte V. Hammill School of Biokinetics Recreation and Sport, Physical Activity Sport and Recreation (PhASRec), North-West University, South Africa Mariette Swanepoel School of Biokinetics Recreation and Sport, Physical Activity Sport and Recreation (PhASRec), North-West University, South Africa Gert L. Strydom School of Biokinetics Recreation and Sport, Physical Activity Sport and Recreation (PhASRec), North-West University, South Africa Citation Ellapen, T.J., Hammill, H.V., Swanepoel, M. & Strydom, G.L., 2017, ‘The health benefits and constraints of exercise therapy for wheelchair users: A clinical commentary’, African Journal of Disability 6(0), a337. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v6i0.337 Original Research The health benefits and constraints of exercise therapy for wheelchair users: A clinical commentary Terry J. Ellapen, Henriëtte V. Hammill, Mariette Swanepoel, Gert L. Strydom Received: 31 Oct. 2016; Accepted: 22 June 2017; Published: 07 Sept. 2017 Copyright: © 2017.
- keywords: activity; aerobic; anterior; appraisal; authors; benefits; biomechanics; black; bmi; body; cardiometabolic; cardiorespiratory; clinical; commentary; common; cord; downs; effects; ellapen; et al; exercise; extremity; fat; fitness; grogery; hand; health; hip; individuals; injuries; injury; journal; levels; lifestyle; limb; literature; lower; mansfield; manual; mcardle; medicine; muscles; neumann; neuromuscular; order; overuse; pain; papers; pathomechanics; people; physical; physical activity; poor; profile; propulsion; quality; recreation; reduced; regular; rehabilitation; review; risk; seat; sedentary; shoulder; south; spinal; spinal cord; sport; strength; swanepoel; table; therapy; training; tweedy; upper; users; van; west; wheelchair; wheelchair propulsion; wheelchair users
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- ajod-338
- author: None
- title: ajod-338
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- words: 7012
- flesch: 38
- summary: The cost of services has been shown to be one of a range of barriers to accessing health services (Commission on Social Determinants of Health 2008; Mills et al. 2012; Peters et al. 2008), particularly when repeated or expensive treatments are required (Ansah et al. 2009; James et al. 2006), such as in the case of rehabilitation services. Individuals may also seek communication rehabilitation services for acquired communication disabilities following a range of health events such as stroke, head injury or head and neck cancer.
- keywords: access; african; analysis; bank; cbr; characteristics; communication; communication disability; community; conditions; countries; data; department; development; disabilities; disability; education; employment; et al; funding; government; health; health organization; international; jobs; journal; lack; language; limited; majority; medical; non; open; organization; paper; participants; patterns; people; potential; practice; private; profession; profit; pwcd; range; region; rehabilitation; rehabilitation services; research; respondents; roles; sample; sector; services; skills; slts; social; speech; ssa; study; survey; table; therapists; therapy; time; training; urban; work; workers; workforce; working; world; world health; wylie
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- ajod-34
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- title: ajod-34
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- words: 4634
- flesch: 37
- summary: Article Information Authors: E. Owusu-Ansah1 Peter Agyei-Baffour2 Anthony Edusei2 Affiliations: 1Department of Behavioural Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana 2Department of Community Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana Correspondence to: Frances Owusu-Ansah Postal address: Department of Behavioural Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana Dates: Received: 15 May 2012 Accepted: 24 Aug. 2012 Published: 16 Oct 2012 How to cite this article: Owusu-Ansah, F.E., Agyei-Baffour, P., Edusei, A., 2012, ‘Perceived control, academic performance and well-being of Ghanaian college students with disability’, African Journal of Disability 1(1), Art. : Empirical evidence abounds showing the impact of perceived control on subjective well-being in several spheres of functioning, including academic performance.
- keywords: academic; academic performance; ansah; children; control; diener; disabilities; disability; environment; esteem; findings; ghana; goals; greater; heckhausen; institutions; internal; items; journal; knust; learning; life; lives; locus; measures; owusu; participants; perceptions; performance; positive; primary; psychology; pursuit; pwds; relationship; sample; scale; science; scores; secondary; self; social; specific; students; studies; study; subjective; technology; tertiary; type; university
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- ajod-340
- author: None
- title: ajod-340
- date: None
- words: 5435
- flesch: 30
- summary: Abstract Introduction Methods Results Discussion Limitations Future studies Conclusion Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Karen H. Fung School of Rehabilitation, Université de Montréal, Canada Marie Enfant Rehabilitation Center, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Canada Paula W. Rushton School of Rehabilitation, Université de Montréal, Canada Marie Enfant Rehabilitation Center, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Canada Rachel Gartz Rehabilitation Science & Technology, University of Pittsburgh, United States Mary Goldberg Rehabilitation Science & Technology, University of Pittsburgh, United States Human Engineering Research Laboratories, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, United States Maria L. Toro Department of Physiotherapy, Universidad CES, Colombia Nicky Seymour Motivation Charitable Trust, South Africa Jonathan Pearlman Rehabilitation Science & Technology, University of Pittsburgh, United States Human Engineering Research Laboratories, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, United States Citation Fung, K.H., Rushton, P.W., Gartz, R., Goldberg, M., Toro, M.L., Seymour, N. & Pearlman, J., 2017, ‘Wheelchair service provision education in academia’, African Journal of Disability 6(0), a340. Depending upon the profession and the setting, wheelchair service provision education may be provided by non-governmental organisations or by health professional academic programmes, with variations among educational programmes.
- keywords: basic; canada; comments; content; current; curricula; development; disability; education; educational institutions; figure; health; hrss; institutions; interest; iswp; kirby; level; lrss; material; methods; model; occupational; organization; original; packages; physical; practice; professional; programmes; provision; provision content; provision education; question; rehabilitation; research; resourced; respondents; results; service; service provision; settings; skills; step; study; survey; teaching; technology; therapists; therapy; training; umrss; university; use; wheelchair; wheelchair provision; wheelchair service; wheelchair skills; world; world health; wstp
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- ajod-341
- author: None
- title: ajod-341
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- words: 6891
- flesch: 41
- summary: This study described how accessible public buildings should be to wheelchair users because the country has a Disability Law but lacks the requisite guidelines (legislative instrument and building codes) on how to make public buildings accessible to all. This study contradicts a similar study by Hamzat and Dada (2005), who reported just 20% of accessible public buildings to wheelchair users in Ibadan, Nigeria.
- keywords: absence; accessibility; accessible; act; activities; adaag; banks; buildings; buildings accessible; data; development; disabilities; disability; education; elevators; entrances; environment; facilities; floor; ghana; government; groups; guidelines; health; height; higher; impairment; institutions; international; journal; kumasi; level; living; low; managers; mdas; metropolis; model; needs; people; persons; physical; population; presence; public; public buildings; pwd; ramps; recreation; rehabilitation; religious; results; rights; routes; sciences; services; sinks; social; society; sports; steps; study; table; total; urinals; users; wheelchair; wheelchair accessible; wheelchair users; world
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- ajod-342
- author: None
- title: ajod-342
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- words: 6794
- flesch: 44
- summary: The nature of bout length among wheelchair users in developed and developing countries should be investigated further. https://doi.org/10.1249/00005768-198512000-00005 Invacare Standard Everyday Wheelchair, Portaid: Wheelchairs & stuff, viewed 15 November 2012, from https://www.sportaid.com/wheelchairs/standard-everyday-wheelchairs/invacare-standard-everyday-wheelchairs/ Janssen, T.W., Van Oers, C.A., Van der Woude, L.H. & Hollander, A.P., 1994, ‘Physical strain in daily life of wheelchair users with spinal cord injuries’, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 26(6), 661–670. https://doi.org/10.1249/00005768-199406000-00002 McNevin, N., Shea, C. & Wulf, G., 2003, ‘Increasing the distance of an external focus of attention enhances learning’, Psychological Research 67(1), 22–29. Mukherjee, G. & Samanta, A., 2001a, ‘Physiological response to the ambulatory performance of hand rim and arm crank propulsion systems’, Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development 4, 391–399.
- keywords: accelerometers; active; activity; alternative; analysis; average; bouts; characteristics; collection; cooper; coulter; daily; data; day; der; design; differences; different; effect; efficiency; et al; extended; figure; focus; groups; individual; information; length; lever; lfc; measures; mobility; movement; mukherjee; outcomes; participants; patients; peak; performance; period; physical; product; propulsion; push; rehabilitation; research; results; rim; rural; samanta; settings; sonenblum; study; systems; table; test; testing; time; total; transition; tricycle; users; van; wheelchair; wheeled; wheeled mobility; winter; woude; wpt
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- ajod-344
- author: None
- title: ajod-344
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- words: 5265
- flesch: 50
- summary: TABLE 1: Dimensions of wheelchair models and sizes. Physical barriers for wheelchair use include narrow doorways, steep ramps and inaccessible bathrooms (Pearlman et al. 2006).
- keywords: analysis; baseline; change; characteristics; cord; countries; current; data; day; development; difference; disabilities; disability; distance; employment; fwm; gen_2; health; impact; income; increase; independence; journal; level; life; local; medical; mobility; model; months; original; overall; pain; peru; pressure; previous; provision; rehabilitation; reported; research; resourced; results; sample; satisfaction; services; shore; significant; status; study; subjects; sufficient; survey; table; term; test; time; ulcers; use; users; vietnam; wheelchair; world
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- ajod-346
- author: None
- title: ajod-346
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- words: 2459
- flesch: 32
- summary: Design challenges encourage collaboration through competition. Discussion The objective of this article was to highlight how design challenge, a tool in the design thinking toolbox, was utilised to catalyse the design of affordable, simple and robust postural support devices for the low-resource settings.
- keywords: accelovate; authors; challenge; committee; countries; design; design challenge; development; devices; disability; end; health; hopkins; income; innovation; innovators; jhpiego; johns; lowand; market; middle; organisations; postural; postural support; process; product; prototypes; review; settings; states; support; teams; technical; thinking; united; university; usaid; users; wheelchair; world
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- ajod-350
- author: None
- title: ajod-350
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- words: 2743
- flesch: 47
- summary: Abstract Introduction Key findings Lessons learned and limitations Conclusion Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Lucy K. Norris Programme Development Department, Motivation Charitable Trust, United Kingdom Citation Norris, L.K., 2017, ‘Motivation Peer Training – Bridging the gap for people with mobility disabilities’, African Journal of Disability 6(0), a350. Abstract Background: Only 2% of people with disabilities in developing countries have access to basic services and rehabilitation. Objectives: To bridge this gap, Motivation has been running Peer Training activities since 1993 and has identified that there is a growing need for Peer Training.
- keywords: access; activities; average; countries; disabilities; disability; health; hiv; impact; improved; increase; information; kenya; knowledge; life; malawi; mobility; motivation; mpt; package; participants; peer; peer training; people; quality; questionnaire; rehabilitation; rights; score; services; skills; support; trainers; training; users; wheelchair; work
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- ajod-352
- author: None
- title: ajod-352
- date: None
- words: 4191
- flesch: 28
- summary: The odds appear to be particularly stacked against stroke rehabilitation in Nigeria given the poor health care infrastructure, shortage of rehabilitation professionals, lack of country-specific stroke clinical practice guidelines and non-adherence to existing global guidelines, and the still-existing apathy towards orthodox care and embrace of traditional beliefs, perceptions and practice in stroke care in some quarters. Stroke rehabilitation in Nigeria typically takes place during the acute in-hospital care on general medical wards or at physiotherapy gymnasia usually within the premises of the same hospitals where patients are admitted.
- keywords: age; care; clinical; community; countries; data; disability; et al; ethical; facilities; factors; finance; global; health; home; important; inpatient; journal; level; medical; medicine; nigeria; onabajo; outpatient; participants; patients; personal; physiotherapy; post; practice; preferences; preferred; preferred rehabilitation; professionals; rehabilitation; rehabilitation setting; results; review; setting; social; source; status; stroke; stroke patients; stroke rehabilitation; studies; study; support; vincent; years
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- ajod-353
- author: None
- title: ajod-353
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- words: 8909
- flesch: 45
- summary: DUSMs know what ought to be done to make campuses more accessible and welcoming to students with disabilities and should be empowered to play a leading role in sensitising non-disabled members of universities, to create greater awareness of, and appreciation for, the multiple ways in which wheelchair user students continue to be excluded from full participation in university life. Initial coding of these interviews revealed commonalities in the way in which DUSMs based at 7 of the 10 universities in the larger study spoke at length about challenges faced by wheelchair user students (WUSs) in particular on their campuses because of the physical inaccessibility of the built environment and a lack of wheelchair-adjusted transport.
- keywords: accessibility; accessible; african; approaches; appropriate; building; campus; campuses; challenges; cost; department; design; different; difficult; disabilities; disability; disabled; dusms; education; environments; example; facilities; female; floor; heritage; higher; higher education; historical; important; inclusion; inclusive; lack; libraries; life; lift; like; making; management; means; money; national; need; new; non; paper; participant; participation; people; persons; physical; possible; practice; preservation; problem; public; pwds; ramps; regulations; report; research; resources; rights; sense; services; social; society; south; south african; students; study; swds; things; toilet; transport; universities; university; users; way; wheelchair; wheelchair users; wuss; years
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- ajod-355
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- title: ajod-355
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- words: 3107
- flesch: 30
- summary: Abstract Introduction Conceptual framework and its applications Conclusion Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Deepan C. Kamaraj Human Engineering Research Laboratories, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, United States Department of Rehabilitation Science & Technology, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, United States Nathan Bray Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation, School of Healthcare Sciences, Bangor University, United Kingdom Karen Rispin Department of Biology, LeTourneau University, United States Padmaja Kankipati Specialized Mobility Operations and Innovation Pvt. Ltd, India Jonathan Pearlman Human Engineering Research Laboratories, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, United States Department of Rehabilitation Science & Technology, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, United States Johan Borg Social Media and Global Health, Lund University, Sweden Citation Kamaraj, D.C., Bray, N., Rispin, K., Kankipati, P., Pearlman, J. & Borg, J., 2017, ‘A conceptual framework to assess effectiveness in wheelchair provision’, African Journal of Disability 6(0), a355. This in turn has led to inadequate evidence about intervention effectiveness, disability prevalence and subsequent costeffectiveness that would help facilitate appropriate provision and support for people with disabilities. Objectives: In this paper, we describe a novel conceptual framework that can be tested across the globe to study and evaluate the effectiveness of wheelchair provision.
- keywords: access; assistive; borg; cer; clinical; comparative; conceptual; conceptual framework; cost; delivery; development; disabilities; disability; domain; effectiveness; evidence; factors; framework; group; guidelines; health; healthcare; impact; independent; international; mobility; people; process; products; provision; quality; rehabilitation; research; service; settings; social; stakeholders; states; united; university; variables; wheelchair; wheelchair provision; world
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- ajod-356
- author: None
- title: ajod-356
- date: None
- words: 7670
- flesch: 53
- summary: We employ autoethnography as a scientific method to unpack our epistemology (Ellis 2014:50), advance social justice (Morella, 2008) and provide an insight into the cost of autism diagnosis, education and support in South Africa. Conclusion: The kind of autism intervention currently offered in South Africa is financially and socially unsustainable.
- keywords: aba; addition; africa; africans; article; assessment; author; autism; autism spectrum; autoethnography; care; case; child; children; clasquin; considerations; cost; country; critical; curriculum; day; deep; department; developmental; diagnosis; disability; disorders; early; education; et al; expensive; experience; fact; family; fees; financial; following; hall; hannekom; health; high; inclusive; income; individual; intensive; intervention; issue; johnson; journal; june; long; medical; need; new; official; parents; pockets; prepared; private; progress; public; research; school; services; sessions; single; skills; social; son; south; south africa; special; spectrum; speech; story; studies; study; support; system; tax; teachers; test; therapeutic; therapists; therapy; training; university; wang; years
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- ajod-357
- author: None
- title: ajod-357
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- words: 6339
- flesch: 42
- summary: Social support provided to individuals post-stroke is vital, but the relationship between social support and participation is not well understood. Social support domains Quality of social support The quality of social support plays a significant role in participation (p = 0.03) at 3–6 months post-stroke, explaining 31% of the variance (R2 of 0.31) (Beckley 2007).
- keywords: activities; analysis; appendix; articles; assessment; authors; beckley; community; criteria; data; disability; effect; et al; factors; family; friends; functioning; glass; health; icf; impact; inclusion; individuals; influence; international; intervention; journal; leisure; levels; life; literature; mayo; method; months; needs; network; norlander; outcome; participants; participation; participation post; pico; post; primary; quality; quantity; recovery; rehabilitation; relationship; restrictions; results; review; self; significant; social; social support; south; stroke; studies; study; sumathipala; support; systematic; table; terms; years
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- ajod-358
- author: None
- title: ajod-358
- date: None
- words: 8044
- flesch: 42
- summary: Reliable testing with the initial set of casters motivated testing caster assemblies for evaluating the effect of straight versus oblique impacts. Abstract Introduction Methods Results Discussion Conclusion Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Anand Mhatre Human Engineering Research Laboratories, Department of Veterans Affairs, Pittsburgh, United States Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, University of Pittsburgh, United States International Society of Wheelchair Professionals, University of Pittsburgh, United States Joseph Ott Human Engineering Research Laboratories, Department of Veterans Affairs, Pittsburgh, United States Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, University of Pittsburgh, United States International Society of Wheelchair Professionals, University of Pittsburgh, United States Jonathan Pearlman Human Engineering Research Laboratories, Department of Veterans Affairs, Pittsburgh, United States Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, University of Pittsburgh, United States International Society of Wheelchair Professionals, University of Pittsburgh, United States Citation Mhatre, A., Ott, J. & Pearlman, J., 2017, ‘Development of wheelchair caster testing equipment and preliminary testing of caster models’, African Journal of Disability 6(0), a358.
- keywords: additional; appropriate; arm; assemblies; assembly; bearing; bolt; borg; caster; caster assembly; caster testing; cause; conditions; cooper; cycles; design; development; different; durability; engineering; equipment; et al; evaluation; experts; exposure; factors; failures; fatigue; feedback; field; figure; fork; fractures; group; health; high; impacts; initial; international; iso; iswp; journal; lres; manual; manufacturers; mdt; members; methods; mhatre; model; motor; new; new caster; new testing; number; oblique; organization; outdoor; parts; pittsburgh; preliminary; preliminary testing; products; professionals; provision; quality; r.a; rehabilitation; requirements; research; resna; results; slat; society; standardization; standards; states; study; surface; swg; system; technology; testing; testing equipment; testing methods; testing system; tests; tires; turntable; united; use; vertical; wheelchair; world
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- ajod-359
- author: None
- title: ajod-359
- date: None
- words: 7752
- flesch: 35
- summary: As Cooper (2015) states, there is a need for ‘formal research that documents the experiences of academics with disability students in online learning’. I chose to study at this University because it offers support for disability students.
- keywords: academics; access; accessibility; accessible; act; africa; available; aware; awareness; barriers; case; court; data; design; digital; disabilities; disability; disabled; discrimination; education; environments; equal; experience; facilities; figure; findings; form; general; higher; higher education; inclusion; inclusive; information; institutions; laws; learning; mainstream; march; materials; mauritius; ministry; national; needs; number; opportunities; paper; participants; participation; people; persons; policies; problems; questionnaire; rate; related; republic; research; respondents; responses; rights; school; social; south; special; structures; students; studies; study; support; supreme; survey; technology; terms; tertiary; tertiary education; tools; training; uncrpd; united; university; use; van
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- ajod-360
- author: None
- title: ajod-360
- date: None
- words: 6483
- flesch: 37
- summary: Researchers have studied the importance of wheelchair training, mainly related to wheelchair skills (Best et al. 2005; Bonaparte et al. 2004; Coolen et al. 2004; Kirby et al. 2008, 2015) and wheelchair maintenance (Toro 2015). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2008.04.028 Kirby, R.L., Keeler, L., Wang, S., Thompson, K. & Theriault, C., 2015, ‘Proportion of wheelchair users who receive wheelchair skills training during an admission to a Canadian Rehabilitation Center’, Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation 31, 58–66.
- keywords: action; approach; basic; confidence; content; data; delivery; development; different; disability; effective; experienced; feedback; focus; good; groups; health; health organization; human; increase; intermediate; international; iswp; iterative; journal; knowledge; learning; managers; materials; methods; number; observers; organization; package; people; pilot; process; programme; providers; provision; recognition; rehabilitation; related; research; results; rights; satisfaction; service; service provision; service training; sessions; settings; skills; stakeholders; states; study; support; surveys; table; tca; trainees; trainer; training; united; visagie; wheelchair; wheelchair service; world; world health; wstpt
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- ajod-361
- author: None
- title: ajod-361
- date: None
- words: 6973
- flesch: 45
- summary: These findings suggest that child aquatic therapy can improve motor function in children with CP, even in children classified with gross motor function at level III, who are restricted in their ability to perform land-based activities. ‘Muscle strengthening is not effective in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy: A systematic review’, Australian Journal of Physiotherapy 55, 81–87. Speth, L., Van Baak, M. & Van Den Berg-Emons, R., 1998, ‘Physical training of school children with spastic cerebral palsy: Effects on daily activity, fat mass and fitness’, International Journal of Rehabilitation Research 21, 179–194.
- keywords: ability; activities; activity; africa; aquatic; balance; body; carry; cerebral; cerebral palsy; children; concept; conditions; confidence; control; design; developmental; disabilities; disability; effect; endurance; et al; example; exercise; following; function; gmfm; gross; gross motor; group; halliwick; health; improved; intervention; item; journal; lambeck; land; levels; limited; medicine; motor; motor function; movement; muscle; neurology; palsy; participants; participation; period; physical; point; post; preand; programme; rehabilitation; research; review; school; score; session; significant; south; studies; study; support; swimming; task; test; testing; therapy; time; treatment; walking; water
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- ajod-363
- author: None
- title: ajod-363
- date: None
- words: 6452
- flesch: 49
- summary: The findings further revealed that teachers in public schools were not patient with dyslexic learners, did not give them extra attention and that some teachers used negative comments that embarrassed them. Conclusion: The article spells out the barriers experienced by dyslexic learners in public schools and also recommends training of teachers so that they know how to deal with dyslexic learners, thereby eliminating the barriers.
- keywords: ability; addition; africa; burden; challenges; children; classroom; current; different; difficulties; dyslexic; dyslexic learners; education; environment; esteem; example; experiences; findings; grade; hoskins; inclusive; information; international; journal; learners; learning; mainstream; male; needs; negative; participant; peers; phonological; point; positive; problems; public; public schools; question; reading; relationship; research; researchers; respondents; school; self; skills; south; special; special school; spelling; study; support; teachers; university; view; words; writing
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- ajod-364
- author: None
- title: ajod-364
- date: None
- words: 7414
- flesch: 44
- summary: Child routine activities, which are mainly essential for daily care, have the highest weekly participation rates and were rated by participants as very important for learning (see Table 2). The categories rated as very important for learning include most child routine activities and all early literacy activities, with colouring, drawing and painting (mean = 2.74, SD = 0.43) rated the most important of all activities.
- keywords: activities; activity; africa; american; balton; cambridge; caregivers; categories; childhood; children; chores; community; context; cultural; culture; daily; development; dunst; early; eds; education; evans; experiences; families; family; focus; frequency; games; group; high; home; important; income; intervention; interview; journal; knowledge; learning; life; literacy; low; malls; mean; music; new; open; parents; participants; participation; pence; perceptions; perspectives; play; playing; practices; press; pretend; pretoria; purpose; questions; research; results; safety; sand; schedule; settings; shopping; south; soweto; spiritual; stories; study; table; television; time; traditional; university; water; weisner; world; years; young
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- ajod-365
- author: None
- title: ajod-365
- date: None
- words: 9264
- flesch: 48
- summary: Hoffmeister (2008) asserts that hearing children of Deaf parents are typically the successive generation in the Deaf community where Deaf people have hearing children when they marry. Being a CODA means that there is a cultural and linguistic difference between Deaf children born to hearing parents and hearing children born to hearing parents (Bull 1998).
- keywords: act; adults; africa; analysis; audiological; authors; birth; brokering; brokers; children; codas; communication; community; context; cultural; culture; current; data; deaf; deaf adults; deaf community; deaf culture; deaf families; deaf parents; deaf people; deafness; development; disability; experiences; families; family; female; filer; findings; gender; hearing; hearing community; hoffmeister; home; information; interpreter; interpreting; interviews; journal; language; life; members; need; order; parents; participants; people; person; pilot; preston; qualitative; questions; research; responsibility; result; role; sample; sampling; services; siblings; sign; sign language; singleton; situations; snowball; social; south; studies; study; tittle; understanding; university; use; world; younger
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- ajod-367
- author: None
- title: ajod-367
- date: None
- words: 3787
- flesch: 41
- summary: Abstract Background: To optimise sprint performance, one needs to understand how motor control affects motor performance. Researchers have proposed that the Dynamic Systems Theory be adopted for explaining motor performance, skill acquisition and the development of pedagogical methods.
- keywords: acceleration; activation; analysis; athlete; case; constraints; control; coordination; data; development; effect; figure; frequency; hay; improved; improvements; individual; interactive; journal; kinematic; length; maximal; metronome; model; motor; motor performance; movement; muscle; optimal; paralympic; participant; patterns; performance; phase; programme; research; rhythmicity; running; science; sequencing; skill; smt; sport; sprint; sprint performance; stride; study; time; timing; training; velocity; video
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- ajod-368
- author: None
- title: ajod-368
- date: None
- words: 6519
- flesch: 52
- summary: https://doi.org/10.1080/02687030444000813 Bakas, T., Faha, R.N., Kroenke, K., Plue, L., Perkins, S.M. & William, L.S., 2006, ‘Outcomes among family caregivers of aphasics versus nonaphasic survivors’, Rehabilitation Nursing 31(1), 33–42. Deep pain…”: Experiences of primary caregivers of stroke survivors with aphasia in a South African township’, African Journal of Disability 7(0), a368.
- keywords: africa; analysis; aphasia; berry; burden; caregivers; caregiving; caring; communication; community; context; current; data; daughter; department; different; disabilities; disability; education; emotional; english; experiences; factors; families; family; feminisation; health; howe; information; international; interviews; isizulu; journal; lack; language; law; legg; life; members; need; old; pain; participants; pcpwa; penn; people; person; poverty; primary; pwa; pwas; qualitative; rehabilitation; research; result; role; social; south; speech; strategies; stroke; studies; study; support; time; township; understanding; university; women; world; years
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- ajod-377
- author: None
- title: ajod-377
- date: None
- words: 3930
- flesch: 50
- summary: Darling-Hammond, L., 2010, ‘Teacher education and the American future’, Journal of Teacher Education 61(1–2), 35–47. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022487109348024 Department of Education (DoE), 2001, White paper on special needs education: Building an inclusive education and training system, Government, Pretoria. Hence, this study attempted to fill the gap by examining how the curriculum is adapted to accommodate SEN learners as well as identify other pockets of good practice.
- keywords: adaptation; africa; beaufort; classes; classroom; curriculum; different; difficult; district; education; female; fort; good; inclusion; inclusive; international; journal; learners; learning; methods; needs; officials; old; ones; paper; participants; practice; primary; principals; provincial; research; schools; sen; skills; south; special; strategies; study; teachers; teaching; training; university; use; work; years
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- ajod-381
- author: None
- title: ajod-381
- date: None
- words: 6105
- flesch: 49
- summary: As part of social support, the social welfare services play an active role in learner support (Gascon-Ramos 2008). Recommendations As a contribution to the provision of learner support, this study recommends that adapted books and materials be availed to facilitate learning across all subjects.
- keywords: active; adaptation; africa; analysis; appropriate; assessment; barriers; child; curriculum; data; dbe; deaf; department; design; doe; education; educators; effective; examinations; example; findings; framework; gascon; hearing; impairment; implementation; important; inclusive; lack; language; learners; learning; limited; materials; meyer; multidisciplinary; need; participant; policy; pretoria; professionals; provision; qualitative; ramos; research; role; rose; schools; services; social; south; space; special; storbeck; studies; study; support; teachers; teaching; training; udl; universal; university; years
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- ajod-389
- author: None
- title: ajod-389
- date: None
- words: 6110
- flesch: 34
- summary: Method: The study relies on reviews of extant literature on disability rights. Reviewed documents include the Convention, constitution and other related national laws, policies and measures pertaining to disability rights.
- keywords: access; african; article; beings; calls; centre; challenges; children; clause; constitution; convention; councillors; crpd; development; disabilities; disability; disability rights; discrimination; economic; education; effective; employment; enable; government; group; health; human; human rights; implementation; inclusion; information; institutions; issues; law; local; mandipa; manyatera; ministries; ministry; national; new; ngwena; office; persons; plessis; policy; press; pretoria; protection; provisions; public; pwds; research; resources; review; rights; section; september; social; society; special; state; studies; university; welfare; women; world; zhrc; zimbabwe
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- ajod-391
- author: None
- title: ajod-391
- date: None
- words: 9917
- flesch: 43
- summary: Recent graduates were selected to represent teachers who were likely to have received inclusive education training at college or university. Abstract Introduction Research methods Results of the research Discussion of findings Conclusion Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Sifiso L. Zwane Ministry of Education and Training, Mbabane, Swaziland Matome M. Malale Department of ABET and Youth Development, University of South Africa, South Africa Citation Zwane, S.L. & Malale, M.M., 2018, ‘Investigating barriers teachers face in the implementation of inclusive education in high schools in Gege branch, Swaziland’, African Journal of Disability 7(0), a391. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v7i0.391 Original Research Investigating barriers teachers face in the implementation of inclusive education in high schools in Gege branch, Swaziland Sifiso L. Zwane, Matome M. Malale Received: 15 May 2017; Accepted: 17 Aug. 2018; Published: 06 Dec. 2018
- keywords: achievement; africa; analysis; assessment; attitudes; barriers; branch; case; challenges; children; classroom; coding; cognitive; country; curriculum; data; department; development; disabilities; diverse; document; education; educators; evidence; experience; face; fact; female; findings; gege; government; high; implementation; inadequate; inappropriate; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive curriculum; inclusive education; information; instance; interviews; journal; lack; large; learners; learning; learning challenges; level; mainstream; male; mcmillan; methods; ministry; needs; non; old; participants; policies; policy; population; primary; process; pupils; quality; reading; research; researchers; resources; respondent; responses; sampling; schools; schumacher; service; skills; social; south; special; structured; students; studies; study; support; swaziland; swaziland education; table; teacher training; teachers; teaching; themes; training; university; use; work; years
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- ajod-396
- author: None
- title: ajod-396
- date: None
- words: 13339
- flesch: 29
- summary: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-3148.2011.00644.x Kopel, C., 2017, ‘Suffrage for people with intellectual disabilities and mental illness: Observations on a civic controversy’, Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, & Ethics 17, 209–209. Kramers-Olen, A., 2016, ‘Sexuality, intellectual disability, and human rights legislation’, South African Journal of Psychology 46(4), 504–516. https://doi.org/10.1177/0081246316678154 Kromberg, J., Zwane, E., Manga, P., Venter, A., Rosen, E. & Christianson, A., 2008, ‘Intellectual disability in the context of a South African population’, Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities 5(2), 89–95. Abstract Background Aim Method Results Discussion Practical implications Implications for research Limitations Conclusion Acknowledgements References Footnotes About the Author(s) Charlotte Capri Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa Alexandra Hospital, Western Cape Government, South Africa Lameze Abrahams Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa Lentegeur Psychiatric Hospital, Department of Health, South Africa Judith McKenzie Department of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, University Of Cape Town, South Africa Ockert Coetzee Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa Alexandra Hospital, Western Cape Government, South Africa Siyabulela Mkabile Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa Lentegeur Psychiatric Hospital, Department of Health, South Africa Manuel Saptouw Lentegeur Psychiatric Hospital, Department of Health, South Africa Andrew Hooper Lentegeur Psychiatric Hospital, Department of Health, South Africa Peter Smith Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa Lentegeur Psychiatric Hospital, Department of Health, South Africa Colleen Adnams Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa Leslie Swartz Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Citation Capri, C., Abrahams, L., McKenzie, J., et al., 2018, ‘Intellectual disability rights and inclusive citizenship in South Africa: What can a scoping review tell us?’, African Journal of Disability 7(0), a396.
- keywords: 2012a; a.l; abuse; access; act; adnams; adults; advocacy; african; african journal; analysis; appropriate; article; assault; august; available; barriers; bias; bodily; bornman; capacity; cape; care; caregivers; cases; challenges; children; citizenship; communication; community; competence; countries; court; cwid; d rights; data; department; development; difficulties; disabilities; disability; disability research; disability rights; disabled; discrimination; doh; donohue; education; eligibility; et al; evidence; experiences; functioning; geiger; government; health; health care; high; hospital; human; human rights; impairment; implications; inclusion; inclusive; individuals; integrity; intellectual; intellectual disability; international; issues; journal; justice; lack; law; learners; learning; legal; life; literature; low; macleod; mcconkey; mckenzie; medical; mental; mental health; mild; model; molteno; nations; needs; november; paper; participation; people; persons; phasha; physical; pillay; policy; political; population; practice; prevalence; primary; profound; protection; psychiatric; psychological; psychology; public; pwid; qualitative; rape; research; results; review; rights; risk; school; services; settings; severe; sexual; sexuality; skills; social; society; socio; south; south africa; special; state; stigma; studies; study; support; survivors; swartz; systematic; table; town; treatment; united; university; van; victims; violence; vulnerable; western; work; world
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- ajod-397
- author: Office, Editorial
- title: Acknowledgement to reviewers
- date: 2017-05-31
- words: 575
- flesch: 25
- summary: We would like to take this opportunity to thank all reviewers who participated in shaping this issue of the African Journal of Disability: Aine Kelly Alister C. Munthali Angela Ofori-Attah Anna McNally Anne M. Witchger Hansen Anthea Rhoda Anthony K. Edusei Arianna Keil Berna Gerber Bonginkosi Chiliza Brian Watermeyer Candice Hendricks Carol M. Schall Carrie Brooke-Sumner Catherine Ward Charlotte Capri Claire Penn Clare Harvey Clare Hocking Colleen Howell Colleen Adnams Crick Lund Daleen Klop Daniel Mont Dinah Alexander Dominic Frimberger Elsje Scheffler Erna Alant Eva Beckung Farhana Karachi Federico Balague Femke Bannink Frances Owusu-Ansah Francois Cilliers Frans Krige Gerard Goggin Gertrude Mafatlane Glenda Kruss van der Heever Grayson Holmbeck Gulam Khandaker Hans Reinders Harsha Kathard Heidi Lourens Ina Wallace Jean-Francois Trani Jennifer Watermeyer Jennifer Jelsma Jennifer Stewart Williams John Parker Julie Claassens Karen Levin Karen Beauchamp-Pryor Kimberly Cardimona Kimberly E. Hoagwood Kirsty Donald Kyle Paulse Lauren Graham Lidia Pretorius Lindsay Stark Mac MacLachlan Marcia Lyner-Cleophas Margie Schneider Maria Berghs Marianne Quiroette Marie David Marieanna Le Roux Marit Van Bakel Mark Friedman Marlette Burger Martha Geiger Mary Wickenden Melanie Alperstein Melissa Gladstone Memory Nyantsanza Mitch Loeb Monika Hasenbring Nemeh Al-Akour Nico Koopman Ockert Coetzee Patricia Henderson Patricia M. Struthers Peter Quinn Peter Grandjean Rachel Irwin Rachel Bray Rebecca Horn Robin Gabriels Romy Parker Rune Halvorsen Sa’diyya Shaikh Sally Hartley Sally Lindsay Sanja Kilian Seth M. Asafo Shajila Singh Sheila Riddell Siva Moodley Sophie Mitra In an effort to facilitate the selection of appropriate peer reviewers for the African Journal of Disability, we ask that you take a moment to update your electronic portfolio on http://www.ajod.org for our files, allowing us better access to your areas of interest and expertise, in order to match reviewers with submitted manuscripts. As such, the identification and selection of reviewers who have expertise and interest in the topics appropriate to each manuscript are essential elements in ensuring a timely, productive peer review process.
- keywords: access; african; appropriate; bhadra; clare; colleen; details; disability; expertise; interest; jennifer; journal; karen; kimberly; manuscript; open; page; patricia; peer; process; publication; rachel; reviewer; sally; selection; susan; timely
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- ajod-40
- author: None
- title: ajod-40
- date: None
- words: 5781
- flesch: 49
- summary: How to cite this article: Schneider, M., Eide, A.H., Amin, M., MacLachlan, M. & Mannan, H., 2013, ‘Inclusion of vulnerable groups in health policies: Regional policies on health priorities in Africa’, African Journal of Disability 2(1), Art. #40, 9 pages. Inclusion of vulnerable groups in health policies: Regional policies on health priorities in Africa In This Original Research... Open Access • Abstract • Introduction • Equitable access to health care and EquiFrame • Aim and objectives • Methodology • Criteria for selection of regional policies • Analytical process • Ethical considerations • Results and discussion •
- keywords: access; address; african; analysis; appendix; care; charter; components; concepts; core; core concepts; different; disabilities; disability; documents; equiframe; equitable; equitable access; focus; framework; groups; health; health care; human; implementation; issues; lack; mannan; mention; nature; needs; number; paper; people; policies; policy; rating; reference; regional; related; relation; review; rights; services; set; social; specific; turnbull; universal; vulnerable; vulnerable groups; youth
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- ajod-400
- author: Office, Editorial
- title: Acknowledgement to reviewers
- date: 2017-06-08
- words: 452
- flesch: 36
- summary: We would like to take this opportunity to thank all reviewers who participated in shaping this issue of the African Journal of Disability: Adedamola Dada Adriana Rios Alick Nyirenda Aniekan U. Akere Annelies Kusters Arne H. Eide Barbara Murray Brendon Barnes Brian Watermeyer Charity Akotia Chrisma Pretorius Daleen Klop Damian Clarke David J.J. Muckart Elizabeth M. Dalton Emma McKinney Frances Owusu-Ansah Graham Lindegger Gubela Mji Heidi Lourens Ian Schochet Ishbel McWha-Hermann Itodo C. Elachi Jacques Lloyd Janet E. Lord Johan Borg Johannah Keikelame K. Mohangi Karen Levin Kelly O’Brien Ken Lipenga Jr Lauren Wild Leigh Schrieff Lily Kpobi Lindy McAllister Liza Conyers Madeleine Duncan Marcia Lyner-Cleophas Maria Marchetti-Mercer Marieanna le Roux Martin Prevett Mary Wickenden Michelle Slone Mokgobadibe V. Ntsiea Nick Medford Orna Sasson-Levy Per K. Solvang Peta Wills Peter Muris Ramazan Akçan Reinette Popplestone Ronelle Carolissen Ryan Blumenthal Sarah M. Anjos Shaun Viljoen Shona McDonald Sophie Mitra Stephanie Nixon Susan Schweik Tanya Theunissen Tone Oderud As such, the identification and selection of reviewers who have expertise and interest in the topics appropriate to each manuscript are essential elements in ensuring a timely, productive peer review process.
- keywords: access; african; appropriate; details; disability; expertise; interest; journal; manuscript; peer; process; publication; reviewer; selection; timely; website
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- ajod-401
- author: None
- title: ajod-401
- date: None
- words: 7870
- flesch: 31
- summary: Abstract Introduction Objectives of the study Contextual and theoretical background to the study Human rights model of disability Disability policy environment in Namibia Occupational justice framework Critical disability theory Applicability of the eightfold path to disability policy analysis Research method and design Ethical consideration Trustworthiness Findings Discussion Conclusion Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Tongai F. Chichaya Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Health Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Robin W.E. Joubert Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Health Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Mary Ann McColl Canadian Disability Policy Alliance, Canada Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; Rehabilitation Therapy/Public Health Sciences, Queen’s University, Canada Citation Chichaya, T.F., Joubert, R.W.E. & McColl, M.A., 2018, ‘Analysing disability policy in Namibia: An occupational justice perspective’, African Journal of Disability 7(0), a401. This model is the first to use moral principles as a basis for disability policy (Degener 2014).
- keywords: acceptability; access; access policy; affordability; alternative; analysis; approach; bardach; barriers; coverage; criteria; criterion; critical; current; decision; department; disabilities; disability; disability policy; economic; education; eightfold; environment; evaluative; evidence; findings; formulation; framework; government; grn; health; human; implementation; inclusion; injustice; justice; justice framework; makers; means; ministry; model; namibia; national; need; new; occupational; occupational justice; occupational participation; offs; outcomes; participation; path; persons; policies; policy; policy alternative; policy analysis; political; population; probable; rehabilitation; republic; research; rights; services; social; society; step; study; suggested; support; support policy; table; theory; townsend; trade; universal; university; windhoek
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- ajod-41
- author: None
- title: ajod-41
- date: None
- words: 6191
- flesch: 40
- summary: The DNDRP (MOHSW 2008:16) recognises this theoretical quandary: ‘There is a need therefore for Government to provide social protection and disability grant to [people with disabilities] … Changing the way people regard disability from a purely health and welfare issue to a primarily human rights and development issue has significant implications for the principles, objectives and goals of existing welfare services. Introduction Top ↑ Issues surrounding disability and people with disabilities have gone through different phases of conceptualisation and re-conceptualisation by societies, from ancient to modern, in different ways and intensities.
- keywords: approach; article; assessment; author; centre; change; department; development; different; disabilities; disability; disabled; document; form; foucault; framework; government; grants; health; human; ideas; individual; issue; language; lesotho; level; life; mainstream; medical; medical model; ministry; model; mohsw; national; national disability; nature; ndrp; needs; new; normal; objectives; opportunities; paradigm; people; person; perspectives; policies; policy; poverty; power; rehabilitation; rehabilitation policy; research; rights; schneider; services; social; social model; social welfare; society; state; stiker; swartz; technologies; university; way; welfare
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- ajod-415
- author: None
- title: ajod-415
- date: None
- words: 3555
- flesch: 38
- summary: J.M., 2018, ‘Perceptions and satisfaction of caregivers regarding rehabilitation services from selected rehabilitation centres in the Western Cape’, African Journal of Disability 7(0), a415. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v7i0.415 Original Research Perceptions and satisfaction of caregivers regarding rehabilitation services from selected rehabilitation centres in the Western Cape Nondwe B. Mlenzana, Arne H. Eide, Jose M. Frantz Received: 12 July 2017; Accepted: 22 June 2018; Published: 25 Oct. 2018 Copyright: © 2018.
- keywords: access; addition; africa; afrikaans; article; cape; caregivers; categories; centres; delivery; disabilities; disability; edwards; emotional; family; financial; health; healthcare; interviews; journal; management; mlenzana; needs; participants; patient; people; perceptions; physical; process; professionals; quality; rehabilitation; rehabilitation centres; rehabilitation services; research; satisfaction; services; south; stroke; study; support; themes; therapist; university; western
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- ajod-418
- author: None
- title: ajod-418
- date: None
- words: 6848
- flesch: 33
- summary: The conventional content analysis (Namey et al. 2008) of the purposes and outcomes of the studies indicated the value in the use of photovoice method in eliciting the experiences of persons with disabilities. Of the 21 studies, 6 studies followed Wang and Burris’ (1997) traditional photovoice method without any modifications, and the remaining 15 studies modified the method.
- keywords: africa; analysis; areas; articles; burris; cbr; cbr programme; challenges; children; community; concerns; data; disabilities; disability; disability research; duration; education; effectiveness; et al; evaluation; experiences; figure; framework; health; inclusion; intellectual; journal; low; main; matrix; method; mixed; modifications; monitoring; moodley; namibia; national; need; number; original; outcomes; participants; participatory; persons; photovoice; photovoice method; policy; potential; process; programme; purposes; qualitative; rehabilitation; relevant; research; research method; results; review; role; russinova; sample; services; shumba; size; social; studies; study; subject; table; tool; types; university; use; wang; world; years
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- ajod-419
- author: None
- title: ajod-419
- date: None
- words: 11100
- flesch: 43
- summary: Here are some concerns and what we will instruct photovoice participants to do in practice. Here is our key concern and what we instruct photovoice participants to do in practice.
- keywords: accessibility; africa; appendix; assessment; assignment; assistant; aub; best; bref; bref instrument; cameras; caregivers; cbr; cbr programme; challenges; collection; community; concerns; consent; critical; data; die; disabilities; disability; discussion; ethical; ethics; evaluation; experiences; feasibility; figure; final; following; form; group; health; health organization; human; important; individual; information; informed; instrument; intellectual; issues; journal; key; larger; life; local; main; method; monitoring; moodley; namibia; need; number; objectives; organization; organization quality; participants; participatory; people; personal; persons; photographs; photos; photovoice; photovoice process; physical; pictures; pilot; pilot study; potential; process; programme; project; public; quality; questions; rehabilitation; related; research; results; rights; scores; services; shumba; social; specific; study; subjects; table; themes; time; tool; use; wang; weeks; whoqol; world; world health
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- ajod-422
- author: None
- title: ajod-422
- date: None
- words: 2681
- flesch: 43
- summary: The leadership of the Southern African Federation for the Disabled (SAFOD) determined a broad project concept – locating AT suppliers in southern Africa. Key stakeholders involved in AT provision including government, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), DPOs and private sector AT suppliers were invited.
- keywords: access; africa; app; application; assistive; availability; botswana; categories; data; disabilities; disability; groups; harniss; health; information; iso; level; low; map; matter; mobile; people; persons; pilot; process; product; project; public; rehabilitation; safod; sector; southern; stakeholders; stellenbosch; suppliers; technology; university; users
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- ajod-423
- author: None
- title: ajod-423
- date: None
- words: 2067
- flesch: 25
- summary: Comprehensive guidelines and training packages, such as those published by the WHO (2008, 2016a, 2017a, 2017b), help to establish a starting point to standardise wheelchairs services across the sector; however, robust research initiatives must be used to measure the outcomes of wheelchair services so that the strategies can be continually improved to achieve best practices. (2017) who describe an opportunity for integrating wheelchair services training into academic programmes worldwide, Norris (2017) who describes the benefits of peer training for wheelchair users and Munera et al. (2017) who describe the development of wheelchair services training of trainers programme being published by the WHO.
- keywords: 6(0; african; african journal; assistive; august; disabilities; disability; disability 6(0; editorial; health; issue; journal; mobility; need; organization; pearlman; people; pittsburgh; provision; research; resourced; sector; services; settings; special; states; technology; training; united; university; users; wheelchair; world
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- ajod-428
- author: None
- title: ajod-428
- date: None
- words: 10877
- flesch: 41
- summary: A descriptive analytical study’, PhD, University of Cape Town. Marcus, B.H., Williams, D.M., Dubbert, P.M., Sallis, J.F., King, A.C., Yancey, A.K. et al., 2006, ‘Physical activity intervention studies: What we know and what we need to know: A scientific statement from the American Heart Association Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism (Subcommittee on Physical Activity); Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young; and the Interdisciplinary Working Group on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research’, Circulation 114, 2739–2752. Marks, R., Allegrante, J.P. & Lorig, K., 2005, ‘A review and synthesis of research evidence for self-efficacy-enhancing interventions for reducing chronic disability: Implications for health education practice (part I)’, Health Promotion Practice 6(1), 37–43. Foster, C., Breckons, M., Cotterell, P., Barbosa, D., Calman, L., Corner, J. et al., 2015, ‘Cancer survivors’ self-efficacy to self-manage in the year following primary treatment’, Journal of Cancer Survivorship 9, 11–19.
- keywords: activities; activity; africa; aged; american; analysis; arthritis; author; barnes; baseline; brooks; cape; care; change; chronic; clinical; college; community; conditions; control; control group; data; depression; development; differences; disability; disease; education; effect; efficacy; eq-5d-3l; et al; exercise; experimental; experimental group; function; group; guidelines; health; high; hiv; hrqol; https://doi.org/10.1097/jes.0b013e318168edef; hypertension; impact; improved; improvement; income; index; individuals; information; intervention; intervention programme; items; jelsma; journal; large; levels; life; lifestyle; living; lorig; low; management; measures; medicine; middle; min; msc; musculoskeletal; non; outcome; pain; parker; participants; patients; phc; physical; physiotherapy; pilot; population; practice; pragmatic; primary; programme; quality; rehabilitation; reported; research; results; rheumatology; sample; scale; scores; self; sessions; significant; similar; size; south; sports; state; studies; study; survey; table; test; time; town; trial; type; university; urban; usual; vas; version; walk; weeks; women; workbook
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- ajod-429
- author: None
- title: ajod-429
- date: None
- words: 7220
- flesch: 39
- summary: Ashcroft, T., Chernomas, W., Davis, P., Dean, R., Seguire, M., Shapiro, C. et al., 2008, ‘Nursing students with disabilities: One faculty’s journey’, International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship 5, 1–26. Tee, S.R., Owens, K., Plowright, S., Ramnath, P., Rourke, S., James, C. et al., 2010, ‘Being reasonable: Supporting disabled nursing students in practice’, Nurse Education Practice 10, 216–221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2009.11.006 Vance, D.E., 2011, ‘Nursing around the world: A perspective on growing concerns and the shortage of care’, Nursing Research and Reviews 1(9), 9–13.
- keywords: access; accommodation; africa; analysis; article; assistance; barriers; case; clinical; current; curriculum; data; design; difficult; disabilities; disability; discrimination; education; educators; female; findings; form; fotim; guidelines; health; hearing; higher; higher education; impaired; individual; institutions; journal; key; kwazulu; lack; lecturers; majority; n =; natal; neis; nurse; nursing; nursing education; participant; people; physical; policies; policy; practices; principals; private; programmes; reasonable; recruiting; recruitment; recruitment practices; republic; research; skills; snwds; social; south; south africa; students; study; support; survey; teaching; training; university; world; years
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- ajod-43
- author: None
- title: ajod-43
- date: None
- words: 8049
- flesch: 42
- summary: Article Information Author: Wisdom K. Mprah1 Affiliation: 1Department of Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States of America Correspondence to: Wisdom Mprah Postal address: 1640 West Roosevelt Road, Chicago 60608, United States of America Dates: Received: 15 Jan. 2013 Accepted: 24 June 2013 Published: 27 Aug. 2013 How to cite this article: Mprah, M.K., 2013, ‘Knowledge and use of contraceptive methods amongst deaf people in Ghana’, African Journal of Disability 2(1), Art. Knowledge and use of contraceptive methods amongst deaf people in Ghana In This Original Research... Open Access • Abstract • Introduction • Overview of deafness in Ghana • Methods • Study design • Population and sample • Sampling strategy • Reliability and validity of the data • Data collection and analysis • Focus groups • Survey • Ethical issues • Results • Focus groups results • Survey results • Discussion • Policy and programmatic implicatio • Conclusion • Acknowledgements • Competing interests • References Abstract Top ↑ Background: Persons with disabilities in general face serious barriers to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information and services due to institutional and attitudinal barriers.
- keywords: access; accra; adolescents; age; aids; barriers; collection; community; consent; contraceptive; contraceptive methods; cultural; data; deaf; deaf community; deaf people; deafness; development; disabilities; disability; education; example; executives; female; findings; focus; focus groups; formal; gender; general; ghana; gnad; groups; gsl; health; hearing; high; hiv; icf; identity; important; informant; information; informed; issues; key; knowledge; lack; language; level; likely; low; macro; male; members; methods; national; needs; participants; people; persons; policy; population; pregnancies; pregnancy; problems; recruitment; reproductive; research; respondents; results; sample; school; services; sexual; srh; statistical; students; study; survey; understanding; use
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- ajod-431
- author: None
- title: ajod-431
- date: None
- words: 7170
- flesch: 42
- summary: Nomatter Sande Department of Religion and Social Transformation, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Apostolic Faith Mission International Ministries, Leicester, United Kingdom Citation Sande, N., 2019, ‘Pastoral ministry and persons with disabilities: The case of the Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe’, African Journal of Disability 8(0), a431. White, G.F., 2014, ‘People with disabilities in Christian community’, Journal of the Christian Institute on Disability 3, 11–35.
- keywords: afm; africa; apostolic; article; author; barriers; believers; bible; blind; care; caring; case; christian; church; community; congregation; deliverance; devil; disabilities; disability; disabled; divine; exorcism; faith; focus; framework; god; groups; healing; help; holy; jesus; journal; life; liturgical; lives; ministry; miracles; mission; model; nature; needs; negative; new; non; participants; pastoral; pastoral ministry; pastors; pentecostal; pentecostalism; people; persons; position; power; praxis; prayer; press; pwd; religion; religious; research; responsible; role; sande; social; social model; society; space; spirit; spiritual; study; testament; testimonies; theology; university; worship; zimbabwe
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- ajod-432
- author: None
- title: ajod-432
- date: None
- words: 9538
- flesch: 42
- summary: Recommendations The findings indicate that stakeholders interested in developing or improving wheelchair service provision in low income contexts would benefit from engaging with local CBR workers to anticipate the challenges and factors which may affect access to wheelchair services and prevent PWDs from benefitting from an appropriate wheelchair. Community Based Rehabilitation Alliance was involved in developing the wheelchair standards and reference to community involvement in wheelchair service relates to referral and maintenance at community level.
- keywords: access; african; analysis; approach; appropriate; areas; available; barriers; borg; cbr; cbr workers; central; challenges; child; children; communities; community; contextual; contributing; data; deepak; delivery; development; disabilities; disability; et al; facilitators; factors; findings; focus; follow; groups; guidelines; health; hospital; impact; inclusion; information; international; journal; knowledge; lack; limited; local; low; mobility; need; new; north; october; organization; pages; parents; participants; participation; people; persons; possible; potential; practice; providers; provision; pwd; qualitative; range; rehabilitation; research; resources; rights; role; rural; service; settings; skills; social; south; stakeholders; stellenbosch; steps; study; support; table; themes; time; training; uganda; users; visagie; west; wheelchair; wheelchair provision; wheelchair service; wheelchair users; workers; world
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- ajod-435
- author: None
- title: ajod-435
- date: None
- words: 7434
- flesch: 44
- summary: Linda noted that as much as managing children with ASD might be challenging, support from those who understand such children enabled caregivers to adjust. References Ambikile, J.S. & Outwater, A., 2012, ‘Challenges of caring for children with mental disorders: Experiences and views of caregivers attending the outpatient clinic at Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam – Tanzania’, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 6(16), 1–11.
- keywords: african; american; analysis; asd; association; autism; autism spectrum; beliefs; burden; caregivers; carpenter; causes; challenges; children; collection; community; condition; countries; cultural; data; developmental; different; difficult; disabilities; disability; discussion; disorder; education; et al; experiences; families; family; focus; general; gona; government; group; guide; health; hospital; inclusion; individuals; information; jane; journal; kenya; life; members; mother; national; needs; occupational; old; onwuegbuzie; organization; parents; participants; population; provision; qualitative; rehabilitation; republic; research; resources; ritchie; services; sessions; similar; social; society; spectrum; spectrum disorder; studies; study; support; suto; therapists; therapy; ubuntu; views; world; year
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- ajod-437
- author: None
- title: ajod-437
- date: None
- words: 7593
- flesch: 35
- summary: To our knowledge, there have been no systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) to assess the effects of parent training interventions on PSE for parents with young children that have neurodevelopmental disabilities. Methods Eligibility criteria Studies selected for this review needed to meet the following inclusion criteria: The study needed to be an RCT using parent training interventions for parents with children diagnosed with neurodevelopmental disabilities.
- keywords: able; activities; africa; age; analysis; articles; asd; assessment; authors; autism; bandura; behavior; bias; change; children; cochrane; country; criteria; data; developmental; disabilities; disorders; early; effectiveness; effects; efficacy; et al; evidence; family; figure; group; health; healthcare; heterogeneity; impact; inclusion; increase; interventions; journal; lami; levels; m.r; mean; measure; meta; methods; neurodevelopmental; new; non; outcomes; parent; parent training; parental; parenting; positive; practitioners; programmes; pse; pse levels; psychology; research; results; review; risk; sanders; scores; self; significant; size; skills; smd; social; spectrum; studies; study; summative; systematic; training; training programmes; trial; triple; years; young; younger
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- ajod-438
- author: None
- title: ajod-438
- date: None
- words: 5362
- flesch: 46
- summary: Lai, S.M., Perera, S., Duncan, P.W. & Bode, R., 2003, ‘Physical and social functioning after stroke: Comparison of the Stroke Impact Scale and Short Form-36’, Stroke 34(2), 488–493. https://doi.org/10.1161/01.STR.0000170706.13595.4f Njoku, C.H. & Aduloju, A.B., 2004, ‘Stroke in Sokoto, Nigeria: A five year retrospective study’, Annals of African Medicine 3, 73–76, viewed 08 February 2017, from https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/2821 Norrving, B. & Kissela, B., 2013, ‘The global burden of stroke and need for a continuum of care’, Neurology 80(Suppl 2), 5–12.
- keywords: acute; adl; age; care; characteristics; chronic; clinical; countries; daily; data; department; disability; domains; duncan; et al; everyday; face; functioning; hand; health; high; hospital; impact; impairment; income; institute; journal; kamwesiga; karolinska; knowledge; lai; life; living; mean; mulago; need; neurological; neurology; onset; participants; participation; patients; people; phase; population; rehabilitation; reported; research; sample; scale; sciences; scores; severe; sis; sss; strength; stroke; stroke impact; studies; study; subacute; sweden; uganda; ward; years
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- ajod-439
- author: None
- title: ajod-439
- date: None
- words: 6907
- flesch: 37
- summary: Ontologically and epistemologically, this process was couched within the transformative paradigm which allows for recognition of unequal power held by theorists, the researcher and the participants who may hold dissonant perspectives on disability needs and how to effectively respond. The working group supported a needs analysis of persons with disabilities in rural communities, involving access, with the support of the local municipality.
- keywords: academic; action; activities; africa; ahs; approach; article; building; capacity; cape; case; centre; clinical; collaborative; communities; community; conference; coordinators; crs; curriculum; development; dialogue; different; disabilities; disability; disabled; divisions; education; faculty; group; health; issues; language; learning; list; local; ned; needs; organisations; participation; participatory; people; persons; placement; practice; process; programmes; project; rcs; rehabilitation; research; response; rural; school; sciences; service; sites; social; south; staff; stakeholders; stellenbosch; students; study; table; therapy; training; undergraduate; university; worcester; working; workshops
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- ajod-444
- author: None
- title: ajod-444
- date: None
- words: 11730
- flesch: 51
- summary: https://doi.org/10.1177/026101839401404203 Balcazar, F.E., Suarez-Balcazar, Y., Adames, S.B., Keys, C.B., García-Ramírez, M. & Paloma, V., 2012, ‘A case study of liberation among Latino Immigrant Families who have children with disabilities’, American Journal of Community Psychology 49, 283–293. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10464-011-9447-9 Barnes, C., 1997, ‘A legacy of oppression: A history of disability in Western culture’, in L. Barton & M. Oliver (eds.), Disability studies: Past, present, and future, pp. We conclude that discourses of empowerment of disabled people frame disability as loss and tend to conceal the personal stories and survival operations of disabled people.
- keywords: access; anthropology; article; author; balcazar; big; block; case; charlton; community; concept; context; cornwall; cosmology; critical; cultural; culture; data; development; devlieger; disability; disability community; disability support; disabled; disabled people; discourse; ebere; economic; eds; education; elections; elites; empowerment; empowerment discourse; ethnographic; event; example; experience; fieldwork; foucault; freire; general; government; group; history; human; ideas; igbo; ingstad; international; interviews; introduction; issues; items; john; journal; language; later; leuven; life; line; living; local; margins; meaning; means; methodology; ministry; mobility; money; names; new; nigeria; non; nwokorie; office; onye; organised; p.j; paradox; participants; party; people; personal; persons; play; political; politicians; poor; process; programmes; public; question; rehabilitation; relations; research; sense; sharing; social; society; southeast; speaker; state; strategy; studies; study; support; survival; system; terms; things; thinking; time; understanding; university; welfare; wheelchairs; whyte; women; words; work; world; worldview; york
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- ajod-446
- author: None
- title: ajod-446
- date: None
- words: 9018
- flesch: 42
- summary: Abstract Introduction Research method and design Ethical considerations Results Discussion Considerations Conclusion Acknowledgements References Footnote About the Author(s) Shaun Cleaver School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Canada International Centre for Disability and Rehabilitation, University of Toronto, Canada Helene Polatajko Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Toronto, Canada Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, University of Toronto, Canada Virginia Bond Social Science Unit, ZAMBART, Zambia Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom Lilian Magalhães Department of Occupational Therapy, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil Stephanie Nixon International Centre for Disability and Rehabilitation, University of Toronto, Canada Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, University of Toronto, Canada Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, Canada Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada Citation Cleaver, S., Polatajko, H., Bond, V., Magalhães, L. & Nixon, S., 2018, ‘Exploring the concerns of persons with disabilities in Western Zambia’, African Journal of Disability 7(0), a446. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v7i0.446 Original Research Exploring the concerns of persons with disabilities in Western Zambia Shaun Cleaver, Helene Polatajko, Virginia Bond, Lilian Magalhães, Stephanie Nixon Received: 02 Nov. 2017; Accepted: 31 Aug. 2018; Published: 29 Nov. 2018 Copyright: © 2018. When it informs programmes and services for persons with disabilities in the global South, this imagining of a single generalised view could reduce effectiveness while further marginalising the people for whom the programmes and services were designed. Objectives: In the interest of better understanding a contextually grounded meaning of disability, we explored the expressed concerns of two organisations of persons with disabilities and their members in Western Zambia.
- keywords: accounts; activities; actors; analysis; author; business; canada; cleaver; coin; collection; concern; considerations; consistent; context; data; design; development; disabilities; disability; disabled; discussion; e.g.; example; experience; focus; global; global south; group; health; impairment; income; individual; ingstad; international; lack; life; literature; living; male; man; material; material resources; members; model; money; need; north; old; organisations; participants; particular; people; persons; physical; policy; possible; poverty; province; pwds; qualitative; rehabilitation; related; research; resources; respect; rural; services; situation; social; south; specific; study; suffering; table; team; terms; toronto; traditional; university; use; ways; western; woman; work; world; years; zambia
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- ajod-450
- author: None
- title: ajod-450
- date: None
- words: 4414
- flesch: 33
- summary: Conclusion Hydrotherapy aids in reducing PWSCI muscle spasticity and cardiometabolic risk profiles, while favourably enhancing underwater gait kinematics and cardiorespiratory capacity. https://doi.org/10.2522/ptj.20060252 Recio, A.C., Stiens, S.A. & Kubrova, E., 2017, ‘Aquatic-based therapy in spinal cord injury rehabilitation: Effective yet underutilized’, Current Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Reports 5(3), 108–112. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40141-017-0158-5 Stevens, S.L., Caputo, J.L., Fuller, D.K. & Morgan, D.W., 2014, ‘Effects of underwater treadmill training on leg strength, balance and walking performance in adults with incomplete spinal cord injury’, Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine 38(1), 91–101. https://doi.org/10.1179/2045772314Y.0000000217 Stevens, S.L. & Morgan, D.W., 2015, ‘Heart rate response during underwater treadmill training in adults with incomplete spinal cord injury.
- keywords: activity; aquatic; authors; becker; benefits; black; body; cardiometabolic; cardiorespiratory; clinical; cord; downs; ellapen; energy; et al; exercise; expenditure; function; gait; gass; hydrostatic; hydrotherapy; impact; increases; injuries; injury; journal; kinematics; land; limb; literature; lower; medicine; muscle; non; patients; physical; pressure; profile; pwsci; quality; questions; records; recreation; rehabilitation; responses; review; risk; search; spasticity; spinal; spinal cord; sport; studies; submersion; table; therapeutic; thermoregulatory; underwater; upper; walking; water; zamparo
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- ajod-456
- author: None
- title: ajod-456
- date: None
- words: 4704
- flesch: 46
- summary: Participants were conveniently sampled within the Cape Metropole region of the WC, SA. A third (28%) of participants in this study were unemployed, and only 14% (n = 7) of the participants owned or used a prosthesis.
- keywords: access; activities; africa; age; amputation; cape; challenges; data; difficulty; disability; employment; health; hospital; interviews; limb; limited; lla; long; male; mobility; n =; needs; organization; participants; participation; persons; phase; qualitative; rehabilitation; research; restrictions; results; sample; society; south; study; table; time; unemployed; unilateral; vocational; walking; whodas; work; world
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- ajod-460
- author: None
- title: ajod-460
- date: None
- words: 6273
- flesch: 56
- summary: Abstract Introduction and background Ubuntu as inclusion Ubuntu among the Zulu culture through Hannah Arendt’s lens Research methodology Findings from the field Discussion and recommendations Conclusion Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Sindile A. Ngubane-Mokiwa College of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa, South Africa Citation Ngubane-Mokiwa, S.A., 2018, ‘Ubuntu considered in light of exclusion of people with disabilities’, African Journal of Disability 7(0), The exclusion of children with disabilities is not a practice limited to African society: Peter Singer, a bioethicist, argued that the trouble of disability for the child and the parents further outweighed emotional choices, judgements and the communities’ socio-economic realities (Singer 1992).
- keywords: activities; africa; arendt; article; birth; care; child; children; communities; community; data; disabilities; disability; disabled; education; elders; ethical; exclusion; family; female; findings; god; gogo; group; helper; house; human; identity; inclusion; journal; kwazulu; letseka; life; marriage; mkhulu; mother; natal; need; negative; oral; parents; past; people; perceptions; person; philosophy; qualitative; research; researchers; results; rights; said; section; social; societies; society; south; study; theory; traditional; treatment; ubuntu; university; values; way; women; work; years
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- ajod-468
- author: Bazant, Eva S.; Himelfarb Hurwitz, Elizabeth J.; Onguti, Brenda N.; Williams, Emma K.; Noon, Jamie H.; Xavier, Cheryl A.; Garcia, Ferdiliza D.S.; Gichangi, Anthony; Gabbow, Mohammed; Musakhi, Peter; Kirby, R. Lee
- title: Erratum: Wheelchair services and use outcomes: A cross-sectional survey in Kenya and the Philippines
- date: 2017-12-13
- words: 340
- flesch: 33
- summary: How to cite this article: Bazant, E.S., Himelfarb Hurwitz, E.J., Onguti, B.N., Williams, E.K., Noon, J.N., Xavier, C.A., Garcia, F.D.S., Gichangi, A., Gabbow, M., Musakhi, P. & Kirby, R.L., 2017, ‘Erratum: Wheelchair services and use outcomes: A cross-sectional survey in Kenya and the Philippines’, African Journal of Disability 6(0), a468. Erratum: Wheelchair services and use outcomes: A cross-sectional survey in Kenya and the Philippines Read online:
- keywords: african; article; device; erratum; kenya; online; outcomes; philippines; read; services; wheelchair
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- ajod-473
- author: None
- title: ajod-473
- date: None
- words: 8419
- flesch: 55
- summary: Abstract Background: Over 90% of Deaf parents have hearing children, but there are very few, if any, studies that have explored the life worlds of hearing children of Deaf adults (CODAs) in South Africa. Methods: Evocative auto-ethnography under a qualitative research paradigm was used to explore the life world of a now adult female hearing child of Deaf parents.
- keywords: adults; africa; analysis; apartheid; article; auto; bilingual; brokers; cape; care; children; codas; coloured; communication; community; context; cultural; culture; data; day; deaf; deaf community; deaf parents; deaf people; deafness; development; different; disability; early; ellis; ethnography; evocative; experiences; family; father; findings; health; hearing; identities; identity; interpreter; introduction; issues; jane; journal; knowledge; language; life; mother; narrative; need; negative; parentification; parents; people; person; personal; preston; qualitative; race; racial; reflexive; research; reversal; role; sasl; self; sign; sister; social; society; south; south africa; story; studies; study; themes; time; town; university; white; world; years
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- ajod-474
- author: None
- title: ajod-474
- date: None
- words: 2499
- flesch: 27
- summary: Abstract Sexuality, assistive products list and assistive devices Ethical consideration The assistive products list is silent on sexual assistive devices Conclusion Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Christine Peta Centre for Rehabilitation Studies, Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Citation Peta, C., 2018, ‘Deafening silence on a vital issue: The World Health Organization has ignored the sexuality of persons with disabilities’, African Journal of Disability 7(0), a474. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v7i0.474 Opinion Paper Deafening silence on a vital issue: The World Health Organization has ignored the sexuality of persons with disabilities Christine Peta Received: 12 Dec. 2017; Accepted: 22 Mar. 2018; Published: 16 July 2018 Copyright: © 2018. The aim of this opinion paper is to share my views about the Priority Assistive Products List on the grounds that it makes no distinct mention of sexual assistive devices, yet research has indicated that sexuality is an area of great concern for persons with disabilities.
- keywords: 2017a; apl; assistive; assistive devices; assistive products; beings; development; devices; disabilities; disability; dysfunction; expression; global; health; human; impairments; journal; list; naphtali; nations; opinion; organization; paper; people; persons; peta; priority; products; rehabilitation; rights; sexual; sexual assistive; sexuality; states; subject; united; women; world; zimbabwe
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- ajod-477
- author: None
- title: ajod-477
- date: None
- words: 6441
- flesch: 43
- summary: This information is then used to narrow down the scope of a literature study on disability challenges. Method: A literature review of challenges faced by individuals with physical disabilities was carried out.
- keywords: aal; africa; aids; ambient; analysis; article; assistance; assisted; care; challenges; computer; conceptual; cord; data; design; different; disabilities; disability; disabled; environment; evaluation; example; findings; framework; functioning; gestures; head; health; help; home; icf; individuals; injuries; interaction; international; interview; limitations; literature; living; main; mandela; mechanisms; mobility; needs; nelson; participants; personal; phone; physical; questions; reference; requirements; research; services; smart; social; software; south; spinal; studies; study; support; table; target; techniques; technology; uganda; unable; universaal; university; use; users; walking; wheelchair; world
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- ajod-478
- author: Office, Editorial
- title: Acknowledgement to reviewers
- date: 2017-12-22
- words: 472
- flesch: 29
- summary: We would like to take this opportunity to thank all reviewers who participated in shaping this issue of the African Journal of Disability: Amelia van der Merwe Anand Mhatre Anita van der Merwe Anlia Pretorius Brett Bowman Bronwyne Coetzee Camilla Hansen Chiwoza R. Bandawe Clare Harvey Cosmos Yarfi Desire Chiwandire Diane Browder Elsje Scheffler Estelle Swart Ester Munalula-Nkanu Gabrielle G. Kelly Gerard Goggin Gert van Rooy Gloria Marsay Gubela Mji Heidi Lourens Jennifer Jelsma Johan Borg Jon Duvall Joy Wee Julia Bingham Karen L. Rispin Kate A. Sherry Kendra Leith Lana van Niekerk Lisa Saville-Young Lynn Clouder Madeleine Duncan Madoda P. Cekiso Mahender Mandala Marcia Lyner-Cleophas Margaret M. Wazakili Margie Schneider Maria Marchetti-Mercer Maria L. Toro Martha Geiger Mary Goldberg Mary Wickenden Michael Evangeli Michael Wehmeyer Nina Yssel Oliver Mutanga Paul I. Chappell Pragashnie Govender (nee’ Naidoo) R. Lee Kirby Rebecca A. Matter Richard Vergunst Ronald Kirby Roshan Galvaan Sara Bass Sara Munera Orozco Sarah M. Anjos Sarah Rule Selete Avoke Shona McDonald Stephanie Nixon Stine H. Braathen Surona J. Visagie Teresa Plummer Tone Oderud Veloshnee Govender Verusia Chetty Vic McKinney Wayne Derman Zelda Coetzee In an effort to facilitate the selection of appropriate peer reviewers for the African Journal of Disability, we ask that you take a moment to update your electronic portfolio on http://www.ajod.org for our files, allowing us better access to your areas of interest and expertise, in order to match reviewers with submitted manuscripts. As such, the identification and selection of reviewers who have expertise and interest in the topics appropriate to each manuscript are essential elements in ensuring a timely, productive peer review process.
- keywords: access; acknowledgement; african; details; disability; http://www.ajod.org; http://www.ajod.org/index.php/ajod/user; interest; journal; manuscript; mary; michael; peer; process; publication; reviewer; sara; selection; timely; van
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- author: None
- title: ajod-48
- date: None
- words: 6071
- flesch: 35
- summary: For example, the family holds the responsibility to hand goats over to other families in the community. This is an example of how poverty impacts family life and jeopardises the effectiveness of occupational therapy services.
- keywords: access; activities; addition; article; authors; care; ccbrt; challenge; child; children; community; comprehensive; cwds; day; development; disabilities; disability; education; example; families; family; february; gift; goats; government; growth; health; heifer; home; hunger; income; international; level; life; living; march; moshi; nations; occupational; organisation; partnership; people; physical; poor; population; poverty; programme; project; quality; reduction; rehabilitation; rehabilitation tanzania; role; ruyobya; services; social; staff; strategy; survey; synergy; tanzania; therapists; therapy; time; united; watson; work; world
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- ajod-484
- author: None
- title: ajod-484
- date: None
- words: 7980
- flesch: 37
- summary: Problems with the visibility of CBR programmes were noted, as well as misunderstandings by many therapists. Changes in international donor funding priorities can lead to a reduction or re-direction of funds, and a consequent lack of sustainability or responsiveness of CBR programmes (Booyens, Van Pletzen & Lorenzo 2015).
- keywords: academic; africa; article; authors; beneficiaries; cbr; cbr guidelines; children; community; community rehabilitation; data; department; development; different; disabilities; disability; disabled; doh; education; empowerment; funding; government; guidelines; health; implementation; important; inclusive; inclusive development; involvement; knowledge; lack; lorenzo; majority; matrix; needs; organisations; paper; participants; people; persons; practice; programmes; projects; question; rehabilitation; research; respondents; responses; results; rights; role; rule; services; social; south; south africa; stakeholders; strategy; study; survey; table; training; understanding; white; work; workers
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- ajod-490
- author: None
- title: ajod-490
- date: None
- words: 4904
- flesch: 42
- summary: Objectives: The objective of this article was to critically examine how disability is constructed in philosophy and religion in comparison with African culture, in the shaping of disability identity as a form of humanity. It is tempting to believe that, given their contemplative abilities, the ancient Greeks had a similar conception of disability identity based on contemporary terminology; however, it was much different for if they did, there would be so many persons with disability.
- keywords: activities; african; ancient; ancient african; article; blind; bodies; body; certain; conclusion; conditions; consequence; contemporary; culture; daily; disabilities; disability; disability identity; disabled; discussion; disorder; dwarfs; economic; egypt; egyptian; example; existence; form; gods; greece; greek; human; humanity; identity; individuals; journal; life; like; literature; london; matter; medical; medieval; model; nature; new; oxford; particular; people; persons; philosophical; philosophy; physical; press; religion; religious; representation; review; routledge; social; society; soul; spirituality; story; studies; systems; traditional; uganda; universal; university; use; york; yorùbá
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- ajod-498
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 1690
- flesch: 37
- summary: Procter, J-L., 2018, ‘Rethinking disability: The need to rethink representation’, African Journal of Disability 7(0), a498. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v7i0.498 Copyright Notice: © 2018. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v1i1.23 Capri, C. & Swartz, L., 2018, ‘“We are actually, after all, just children”: Caring societies and South African infantilisation of adults with intellectual disability’, Disability & Society 33(2), 285–308. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2017.1409102 Devlieger, P., Miranda-Galarza, B., Brown, S.E. & Strickfaden, M., 2016, Rethinking disability, world perspectives on culture and society, 2nd edn., Garant Publishers, Antwerp.
- keywords: african; article; black; book; capri; children; culture; devlieger; disabilities; disability; essays; global; journal; need; people; perspectives; queer; representation; rethinking; review; s.e; society; south; studies; transgender; white; world
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- ajod-50
- author: None
- title: ajod-50
- date: None
- words: 7424
- flesch: 50
- summary: One participant explained that she believes the state should sometimes intervene not only after HIV diagnosis, but in order to prevent contracting HIV in the first instance, especially for people with disabilities: ‘The government needs to support us in every way, especially for us who are HIV/AIDS. How participants negotiated the impact of HIV and disability with multiple situational factors reflects the diversity of the lives of female participants prior to HIV diagnosis.
- keywords: africa; aids; analysis; article; authors; care; challenge; children; data; development; diagnosis; disabilities; disability; disabled; edstrom; english; experiences; family; female; fieldworkers; findings; gender; gender roles; groce; health; hiv; hiv diagnosis; husband; impact; individuals; information; interviews; intimacy; intimate; issues; journal; language; lives; london; lusaka; marriage; members; participants; people; positive; prevention; relationships; research; risk; roles; sepo; sexualities; sexuality; sign; social; stereotypes; study; support; team; toronto; university; women; zambia
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- ajod-500
- author: None
- title: ajod-500
- date: None
- words: 8932
- flesch: 53
- summary: So the aim was to get disabled people to come out and group them, train them, educate them and integrate them in society.’ ‘[I became a member of the DPO] because there, at least, you are with disabled people: when you see them, you [see] … that you too are a disabled person….
- keywords: access; age; aid; areas; article; awareness; burkina; burkina faso; capital; city; commissioner; des; development; director; disabilities; disability; disabled; disabled people; dpos; example; external; faso; fatou; febah; federation; financial; functioning; funding; funds; general; grassroots; group; handicap; high; importance; income; ingos; international; interview; joseph; lack; leadership; level; man; members; money; movement; national; non; organisation; ouagadougou; people; person; physical; president; problems; region; research; role; rural; self; social; society; support; time; umbrella; urban; visual; way; weak; women; work; world
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- ajod-503
- author: None
- title: ajod-503
- date: None
- words: 4622
- flesch: 51
- summary: There were no differences in working properties between the recycled POP and the virgin POP. Conclusion: It was therefore concluded that under controlled conditions, such as grinding size, heating temperature, time and avoidance of contamination, used POP could be continuously recycled, resulting in stronger and workable casts. Conclusions Plaster of Paris can be produced by thermal treatment of recycled gypsum powder at a temperature of 180°C for 2 h. The results of this project show that POP could be recycled repeatedly with the same procedure without altering the required setting time and working characteristics of recycled POP powder for prosthetics and orthotics, and even improving the compressive strength of casts.
- keywords: average; calcium; casts; college; compressive; compressive strength; data; different; environment; figure; gypsum; heating; hemihydrate; higher; highest; hydration; identical; initial; mass; material; mixed; mixing; models; orthotics; paris; plaster; pollution; pop; pop powder; positive; powder; process; project; properties; prosthetics; ratio; recycled; recycled pop; recycling; results; samples; setting; size; strength; stronger; study; sulphate; tanzania; temperature; testing; time; use; virgin; virgin pop; waste; water
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- ajod-507
- author: None
- title: ajod-507
- date: None
- words: 9736
- flesch: 39
- summary: On average, participants understood multiple languages (M = 5.3, SD = 2.9, range = 2–11), with African language participants (n = 19) understanding more languages (M = 5.8, SD = 2.8, range = 2–11), than participants from English or Afrikaans home language backgrounds (n = 8, M = 4.2, SD = 3.0, range = 2–11). These limitations seemed related both to a lack of appropriate AAC systems (e.g. a lack of TTS in African languages other than English), as well as the adults’ limited literacy skills in some of the languages they understood.
- keywords: aac; ability; access; additional; adults; african; afrikaans; alternative; alternative communication; appropriate; assistants; augmentative; available; average; backgrounds; boards; children; coetzee; communication; complex; data; desire; developmental; different; disabilities; disorders; education; email; empowerment; english; face; group; home; home language; identity; increased; interactions; intervention; journal; lack; language; light; limitations; limited; list; literacy; methods; multilingual; multiple; multiple languages; need; non; number; participants; partners; persons; picture; pretoria; programme; questionnaire; questions; range; reading; reasons; research; researchers; respondents; responses; results; rooy; sgds; skills; social; south; south african; speech; spoken; statistics; study; survey; systems; technology; text; times; tönsing; university; use; van; views; writing
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- ajod-514
- author: None
- title: ajod-514
- date: None
- words: 10779
- flesch: 40
- summary: Shildrick, M., 2012, ‘Critical disability studies: Rethinking the conventions for the age of postmodernity’, in N. Watson, A. Roulstone & C. Thomas (eds.), Routledge handbook of disability studies, pp. The institution of higher learning does not deny students with disabilities entry into Law, Medicine, Education or any other professional degree.
- keywords: access; africa; alienation; article; causes; coloniality; context; critical; cultural; data; decolonial; degrees; department; different; disabilities; disability; disabled; diverse; dominant; education; employment; entry; experience; gatsheni; global; grosfougel; groups; higher; higher education; higher learning; human; impairment; important; inclusion; inequality; institution; intersectionality; interviews; invisible; issues; journal; knowledge; law; learning; level; london; male; medicine; members; mertens; ndlovu; non; obstacles; old; opportunity; oppressed; oppression; paper; participants; particular; people; perspective; policy; power; professional; professional degrees; programmes; qualitative; quijano; requirements; research; schools; social; society; south; special; specific; specific professional; staff; students; studies; study; subjects; terms; theory; transformation; underlying; understanding; university; way; years; zone
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- ajod-515
- author: None
- title: ajod-515
- date: None
- words: 8793
- flesch: 44
- summary: Fama, R., Eisen, J.C., Rosenbloom, M.J., Sassoon, S.A., Kemper, C.A., Deresinski, S. et al., 2007, ‘Upper and lower limb motor impairments in alcoholism, HIV infection and their comorbidity’, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 31(6), 1038–1044. The strategies employed during this study to retain study participants after hospital discharge are supported in the literature (Abshire et al. 2017).
- keywords: 2010; active; additional; africa; anti; architecture; assessment; aswegen; balance; berg; capacity; care; changes; cohort; critical; data; diagnosis; discharge; disease; distance; dropout; duration; dyspnoea; echo; et al; exercise; faculty; feasibility; femoris; findings; follow; functional; greatest; group; health; high; hiv; hospital; hospitalisation; illness; imaging; impairments; infection; information; intensity; johannesburg; journal; level; life; longitudinal; mass; mean; min; months; muscle; outcomes; participants; patients; people; period; physical; physiotherapy; pilot; population; post; power; pulmonary; quality; range; rate; recovery; recruitment; rectus; rehabilitation; research; results; roos; scale; sciences; score; significant; south; study; table; test; therapy; thickness; time; trial; tuberculosis; tug; ultrasound; university; van; walk; weeks; witwatersrand
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- ajod-518
- author: None
- title: ajod-518
- date: None
- words: 8923
- flesch: 40
- summary: https://doi.org/10.1590/S1020-49892012000300002 Mayat, N. & Amosun, S.L., 2011, ‘Perceptions of academic staff towards accommodating students with disabilities in a civil engineering undergraduate program in a University in South Africa’, Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability 24(1), 53–59. McKinney, V., 2016, ‘An exploratory case study on the preparation of undergraduate civil engineering students at the University of Cape Town to contribute to an inclusive society for people disabilities’, Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Cape Town. In an attempt to understand the contextual parameters that would impact disability inclusion in South Africa, this article explores the lived experiences of some persons with disabilities with regard to inclusion in a built environment that is assumed, based on available government’s documentations, to align with international and national disability-related policies and legislations (Department of the Presidency
- keywords: accessible; active; africa; amosun; analysis; article; authors; barriers; building; cape; challenges; change; civil; community; data; department; desire; development; disabilities; disability; dop; dsd; education; engineering; environment; et al; exclusion; experiences; feeling; findings; government; hammel; health; human; impact; inclusion; inclusive; independent; international; interview; journal; larger; legislations; level; life; male; mckinney; method; national; nations; negative; new; old; participants; participation; people; persons; phenomenological; policies; policy; population; qualitative; quality; regulations; rehabilitation; research; rights; role; sense; social; society; south; south africa; structural; students; studies; study; table; themes; town; train; transport; uncrpd; undergraduate; understanding; united; university; use; wheelchair; world; years
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- ajod-519
- author: None
- title: ajod-519
- date: None
- words: 5865
- flesch: 30
- summary: Inclusive education policies and challenges Worldwide Since the World Declaration on Education for All (UNESCO 1990) and the Salamanca Statement (UNESCO 1994), inclusive education has been a major focus worldwide. With education’s movement towards providing general education for all students in the most ‘normalised’ environment, acquiring knowledge of inclusive learning and actually implementing inclusive education policies and strategies are critical for success.
- keywords: access; accessibility; accessible; act; africa; article; authors; challenges; conference; dalton; department; design; development; disabilities; disability; education; environments; equity; framework; guidelines; higher; higher education; implementation; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive education; information; institutions; instruction; international; learning; materials; means; multiple; national; needs; online; paper; people; physical; policies; policy; practices; principles; professional; programmes; research; resources; rights; services; solutions; south; special; staff; states; stellenbosch; students; support; systems; teachers; teaching; technology; training; udl; unesco; united; universal; universal design; university; usa; use; world
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- ajod-520
- author: None
- title: ajod-520
- date: None
- words: 6746
- flesch: 45
- summary: However, while patient report measures are based on the experience of wheelchair users, professional report measures are informed by clinical judgement developed from training and experience. For some questionnaires it is not clear if they are meant to be completed by wheelchair providers or wheelchair users (Kumar et al. 2013; Schmeler et al. 2017).
- keywords: assessment; assistive; brief; changes; clinical; comments; components; consensus; content; cooper; data; design; development; disability; discriminatory; draft; evidence; experience; feedback; field; focus; group; health; importance; information; initial; interface; journal; kenya; language; letourneau; lmic; low; measure; method; mobility; need; online; outcome; participants; physical; practice; professional; providers; questionnaire; questions; rehabilitation; reliability; report; research; results; rispin; rounds; scale; service; specific; studies; study; survey; table; technology; time; tool; university; useful; user; validity; version; wee; wheelchair; wheelchair interface; wheelchair user; wiq; world
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- ajod-522
- author: None
- title: ajod-522
- date: None
- words: 6118
- flesch: 46
- summary: The complexity of trying to understand individual disability successes within the backdrop of disadvantage fuelled the Department for International Development/Economic and Social Research Council-funded research project reported in this paper, which had the aim of exploring factors that explained the success of some persons with disabilities on the African continent. Tom Shakespeare Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom Anthony Mugeere Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda Emily Nyariki School of Public Health, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya Joseph Simbaya Institute of Economic and Social Research, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia Citation Shakespeare, T., Mugeere, A., Nyariki, E. & Simbaya, J., 2019, ‘Success in Africa: People with disabilities share their stories’, African Journal of Disability 8(0), a522.
- keywords: africa; analysis; attitudes; authors; barriers; basis; children; countries; data; development; disabilities; disability; disabled; dpos; economic; education; employment; equal; example; factors; family; findings; framework; government; groce; health; impairments; individuals; international; interviews; journal; kenya; leone; life; living; mainstream; negative; non; paper; participants; people; persons; poverty; qualitative; research; respondent; rights; rural; school; settings; sierra; social; stories; studies; study; success; successful; support; table; terms; time; trani; uganda; university; urban; use; woman; working; world; zambia
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- ajod-523
- author: None
- title: ajod-523
- date: None
- words: 7057
- flesch: 34
- summary: Roshanthni Subrayen Disability Support Unit, School of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa Rubby Dhunpath Teaching and Learning Office, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa Citation Subrayen, R. & Dhunpath, R., 2019, ‘A snapshot of the chalkboard writing experiences of Bachelor of Education students with visual disabilities in South Africa’, African Journal of Disability 8(0), a523. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v8i0.523 Original Research A snapshot of the chalkboard writing experiences of Bachelor of Education students with visual disabilities in South Africa Roshanthni Subrayen, Rubby Dhunpath Received: 05 Apr. 2018;
- keywords: access; africa; analysis; article; bachelor; barriers; booklet; chalkboard; challenges; classroom; communities; community; context; dale; data; disabilities; disability; disclosure; education; education students; engagement; equity; experiences; findings; glazzard; higher; higher education; inclusion; institutional; journal; learning; learning placements; model; need; old; participants; participation; persons; placements; policy; practice; practice learning; practice placements; practice school; print; qualitative; republic; research; resourced; retention; school; school placements; shared; skills; social; south; south africa; stigma; strategies; students; studies; study; subrayen; success; support; swds; teachers; teaching; teaching practice; theoretical; tinto; trainee; university; use; visual; visual disabilities; years
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- ajod-528
- author: None
- title: ajod-528
- date: None
- words: 7376
- flesch: 51
- summary: Therefore, challenges associated with raising disabled children deter parents from trying to have children. More attention is given to the child with special needs, and neglect takes centre stage from other children within the household.
- keywords: activities; africa; attitudes; available; beliefs; biological; birth; care; caregivers; causes; children; condition; cure; data; department; different; disabilities; disability; disabled; disabled child; district; experiences; family; findings; gupta; health; impairment; india; information; interview; journal; lack; lehlaba; life; limpopo; living; means; medical; model; needs; negative; parents; participants; people; person; physical; poverty; process; professionals; protective; province; qualitative; rehabilitation; research; researchers; resources; responses; results; rural; secondary; sekhukhune; services; social; society; son; south; study; support; themes; time; understanding; university; view; wheelchair; witchcraft; workshop; zimbabwe
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- ajod-537
- author: None
- title: ajod-537
- date: None
- words: 5297
- flesch: 45
- summary: Abstract Background: The South African Department of Health identified the need to train a new cadre of community health worker (CHW) in the field of rehabilitation as part of their 2030 Health Plan that aims to improve primary healthcare (PHC) and community-based rehabilitation (CBR). Community health workers can be effectively utilised in CBR if their role is understood and their potential is not limited by professional protectionism and scepticism.
- keywords: access; african; analysis; cape; care; cbr; chappell; chws; communities; community; crws; data; development; disabilities; disability; education; factor; health; health professionals; healthcare; intermediate; johannsmeier; lorenzo; methodology; new; occupational; organization; participants; participation; people; phc; professionals; programmes; pwd; rcws; rehabilitation; rehabilitation health; research; resources; role; rule; scoresheet; services; social; south; statements; study; support; table; therapy; training; university; western; workers; world
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- ajod-538
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 1073
- flesch: 31
- summary: By contrast, Mitra argues, many LMICs have developed policies and legislation on disabilities without fully considering the Conventions on the Rights of Persons with Disability (United Nations [UN] 2008), and these policies may not provide an adequate solution to better the quality of life of persons with disability, despite the improvements in certain health parameters. It proposes a new conceptual framework, the Human Development Model, for persons living with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) using the Washington Group Short Set of Questions on Disability – collected as part of the Living Standard Measure Study.
- keywords: approach; book; chapter; data; deprivation; development; disabilities; disability; health; human; living; lmics; matousova; mitra; model; new; persons; policies; research; review
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- ajod-539
- author: None
- title: ajod-539
- date: None
- words: 6744
- flesch: 49
- summary: https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/31.1.7 Rahimi-Movaghar, V., Sayyah, M.K., Akbari, H., Khorramirouz, R., Rasouli, M.R., Moradi-Lakeh, M. et al., 2013, ‘Epidemiology of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review’, Neuroepidemiology 41(2), 65–85. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2012.686877 Vergunst, R., Swartz, L., Hem, K.G., Eide, A.H., Mannan, H., MacLachlan, M. et al., 2017, ‘Access to health care for persons with disabilities in rural South Africa’, BMC Health Services Research 17(1), 741. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2674-5 Vergunst, R., Swartz, L., Mji, G., MacLachlan, M. & Mannan, H., 2015, ‘“You must carry your wheelchair”: Barriers to accessing healthcare in a South African rural area’, Global Health Action 8, 29003.
- keywords: access; africa; area; availability; available; barriers; botswana; care; challenges; clinics; consumables; cord; countries; data; disabilities; disability; eide; equipment; et al; facilities; facility; figure; findings; gaborone; greater; health; healthcare; hospitals; injury; journal; knowledge; lack; löfvenmark; löfvenmark et; majority; mulumba; munthali; non; number; participants; people; persons; poor; population; primary; primary care; providers; public; rehabilitation; rooy; rooy et; sci; services; setting; south; spinal; staff; stillman; stillman et; studies; study; times; transport; traumatic; unit; use; van; vergunst; vergunst et; visagie; wheelchairs
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- ajod-54
- author: None
- title: ajod-54
- date: None
- words: 8293
- flesch: 57
- summary: Other factors such as widespread poverty, misdiagnosis by health workers, the lack of medicines for epilepsy in the health centres and distance to health facilities tend to hinder access to effective epilepsy treatment. This article explores the health-seeking behaviour of people with epilepsy in a rural town in southern Malawi and how having a person with epilepsy impacts on the households’ productivity.
- keywords: access; africa; article; barriers; behaviour; care; case; causes; child; children; community; condition; data; disabilities; disability; disease; district; drugs; epilepsy; epileptic; facilities; family; god; guardians; healer; health; hospital; household; illness; impacts; informants; international; interviews; lack; long; major; malawi; mangochi; medication; medicine; ministry; modern; mother; mushi; national; parents; patients; people; perceptions; persons; research; results; school; seizures; services; social; speech; stomach; studies; study; terms; therapy; time; traditional; treatment; university; witchcraft; workers; years
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- ajod-542
- author: None
- title: ajod-542
- date: None
- words: 9477
- flesch: 38
- summary: All participants met the school district’s inclusive education team’s criteria for IDD, which is diagnosed by a screening stage (based on child observations), an achievement test (evidence of academic achievements) and a series of tests conducted in the district assessment centre by a clinical psychologist to confirm the presence of IDD. This confirms research showing that general education teachers view children with IDD with scepticism and act in an unresponsive manner towards their needs because of the child’s behavioural challenges (Lifshitz, Glaubman & Issawi 2004).
- keywords: academic; accra; analysis; answer; article; assignments; authors; behavioural; break; bronfenbrenner; challenges; characteristics; children; classroom; collection; corporal; countries; country; data; desks; development; different; disabilities; disability; district; education; end; environments; example; experiences; factors; family; findings; future; general; ghana; girls; health; human; idd; idds; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive education; inclusive schools; income; individual; instance; intellectual; interactions; international; interviews; journal; learning; level; madam; nations; needs; observations; old; parents; participants; peers; practice; primary; process; punishment; qualitative; questions; research; rights; school; settings; social; special; stakeholders; students; studies; study; support; system; table; teachers; teaching; themes; theory; time; united; victimisation; work; world; write; writing; years
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- ajod-55
- author: None
- title: ajod-55
- date: None
- words: 6262
- flesch: 40
- summary: In order words, the study provides important background knowledge concerning the diversity of deaf identities and its implications, that is, how what it is to be deaf influences research and how it can complicate research with deaf people for many researchers, especially those unfamiliar with the nature of deaf identities. Article Information Author: Wisdom K. Mprah1 Affiliation: 1Department of Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States of America Correspondence to: Wisdom Mprah Postal address: PO Box 27, Mampong-Akwapim, Ghana Dates: Received: 12 Jan. 2013 Accepted: 08 July 2013 Published: 06 Sept. 2013 How to cite this article: Mprah, W.K., 2013, ‘Sexual and reproductive health needs assessment with deaf people in Ghana: Methodological challenges and ethical concerns’, African Journal of Disability 2(1), Art.
- keywords: access; aids; article; assessment; challenges; collection; community; concerns; consent; cultural; culture; data; deaf; deaf community; deaf people; deafness; development; differences; different; disability; english; ethical; findings; focus; focus group; forms; ghana; gnad; group; gsl; health; hearing; high; hiv; identities; information; informed; issues; items; key; knowledge; language; members; methodological; methods; national; needs; order; participants; people; pollard; population; problems; reproductive; research; researchers; respondents; services; sessions; sexual; sign; srh; studies; study; subjects; survey; transcription; understanding; use; video; women
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- ajod-550
- author: None
- title: ajod-550
- date: None
- words: 227
- flesch: 42
- summary: ‘Erratum: The intersection of disability and food security: Perspectives of health and humanitarian aid workers’, African Journal of Disability 8(0), a550. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v8i0.550 Note: Doi of original article: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v7i0.322 Erratum Erratum: The intersection of disability and food security: Perspectives of health and humanitarian aid workers Candice A. Quarmby, Mershen Pillay Published: 10 Oct. 2019 Copyright: © 2019. About the Author(s) Candice A. Quarmby Discipline of Speech-Language Pathology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Mershen Pillay Discipline of Speech-Language Pathology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Citation Quarmby, C.A. & Pillay, M., 2019,
- keywords: article; disability; erratum; food; pillay; quarmby
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- ajod-551
- author: None
- title: ajod-551
- date: None
- words: 198
- flesch: 35
- summary: The intersection of disability and food security: Perspectives of health and humanitarian aid workers’, African Journal of Disability 8(0), a551. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v8i0.551 Note: Doi of original article: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v7i0.322 Corrigendum Corrigendum: The intersection of disability and food security: Perspectives of health and humanitarian aid workers Candice A. Quarmby, Mershen Pillay Published: 10 Oct. 2019 Copyright: © 2019. About the Author(s) Candice A. Quarmby Discipline of Speech-Language Pathology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Mershen Pillay Discipline of Speech-Language Pathology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Citation Quarmby, C.A. & Pillay, M., 2019, `Corrigendum:
- keywords: kwazulu; language; natal; south; university
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- ajod-555
- author: None
- title: ajod-555
- date: None
- words: 6489
- flesch: 36
- summary: Findings from inclusive education interventions delivered by NGOs, particularly when theory-led, are a useful step to explore ‘what works’ in practice, especially given that the implementation of inclusive education interventions by other actors could be constrained by a lack of resources (e.g. Donohue & Bornman 2015; Kuyini & Desai 2007). Within disability inclusive development and development more broadly, we (i.e. the authors) view the equitable involvement of actors based within contexts and with experiences of the identities (e.g. disability) under study as crucial to the meaningful implementation and assessment of interventions, although there is a natural debate about what equitable participation would constitute to different actors.
- keywords: access; activities; attainment; authors; carew; change; cheshire; children; component; control; countries; data; development; difficulty; disabilities; disability; disabled; education; education intervention; english; findings; gender; girls; global; grade; group; impact; inclusive; inclusive education; international; intervention; intervention group; journal; kenya; kiswahili; lakes; learning; leonard; literacy; lmics; london; model; non; numeracy; outcomes; period; poor; practice; predictors; primary; project; quality; range; region; research; resource; respondents; sample; school; scores; settings; significant; study; test; time; united; uwezo
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- ajod-558
- author: None
- title: ajod-558
- date: None
- words: 4043
- flesch: 36
- summary: Abstract Introduction Disability inclusion practices in the post-school education and training sector The role of Disability Units as enablers of inclusion Assistive technology fosters disability inclusion The role of Higher and Further Education Disability Services Association Conclusion Acknowledgements References Footnotes About the Author(s) Marcia Lyner-Cleophas Disability Unit, Centre for Student Counselling and Development, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa Citation Lyner-Cleophas, M., 2019, ‘Assistive technology enables inclusion in higher education: The role of Higher and Further Education Disability Services Association’, African Journal of Disability 8(0), a558. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v8i0.558 Original Research Assistive technology enables inclusion in higher education: The role of Higher and Further Education Disability Services Association Marcia Lyner-Cleophas Received: 04 Sept. 2018; Accepted: 20 June 2019; Published: 22 Aug. 2019 Copyright: © 2019. Objectives: Higher and Further Education Disability Services Association (HEDSA) enables the sharing of new knowledge about assistive technologies through its symposia, and making information available on its website.
- keywords: access; africa; article; assistive; association; collaboration; conference; disabilities; disability; disability inclusion; education; education disability; framework; hedsa; heis; higher; higher education; inclusion; inclusive; information; institutions; justice; learning; listserv; mapability; online; people; policy; post; pset; reading; republic; rights; role; school; sector; services; social; software; south; south africa; staff; students; support; technologies; technology; training; units; university; use
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- ajod-561
- author: None
- title: ajod-561
- date: None
- words: 9040
- flesch: 48
- summary: A better way to explain the difference between these terminologies is that in cooperative learning learners learn together, whilst peer learning helps learners to learn from one another. (Participant 3, female, 23 years old) Teachers’ experience with specific learning disability learners The major SLD symptoms experienced by participants are difficulties with reading, writing and spelling and difficulties with basic mathematical calculations.
- keywords: ability; able; academic; additional; adhd; africa; aids; assessments; attention; barriers; brain; challenges; children; classroom; cooperative; critical; curriculum; data; department; different; difficulties; disabilities; disability; disorders; diverse; education; engelbrecht; evident; experience; extra; female; focus; grouping; incident; inclusive; inclusive education; interviews; johannesburg; journal; knowledge; learners; learning; level; mainstream; major; ndd; ndds; needs; nel; neurodevelopmental; old; oral; participants; peer; practice; qualified; qualified teachers; qualitative; reading; reports; research; school; secondary; service; skills; sld; social; south; special; specific; strategies; strategy; study; support; support strategies; symptoms; system; teachers; teaching; theme; time; training; understanding; university; use; van; visual; way; work; writing; years
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- ajod-567
- author: None
- title: ajod-567
- date: None
- words: 7481
- flesch: 49
- summary: While SAFOD and their affiliates have conducted the time-intensive task of compiling AT supplier information within a 10-country region into one searchable platform, the information system is unlikely to achieve its full potential without public investment from national governments and/or the Southern African Development Community (SADC) (Vesel et al. 2015). Participants included AT users, AT suppliers and representatives of disability organisations.
- keywords: abaza; able; access; africa; allsop; allsop et; app; application; article; assistive; awareness; botswana; challenges; countries; country; data; demand; devices; disabilities; disability; discussions; et al; findings; focus; funding; group; health; impairments; implementation; increase; information; issues; lack; lesotho; malawi; man; map; marschollek; matter; mobile; mobility; monitoring; need; organisations; participant; password; people; persons; phones; physical; platform; process; products; providers; rehabilitation; safod; services; southern; suppliers; system; technical; technology; themes; training; use; users; vesel; vesel et; visagie; visual; watkins; woman; world; zambia
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- ajod-568
- author: None
- title: ajod-568
- date: None
- words: 10786
- flesch: 38
- summary: Figure 4 may therefore also suggest an acknowledgement of only one of several other disabilities such as the non-visible disabilities (psychosocial, visual, hearing, learning and medical, among others), which form the majority of disabilities. https://doi.org/10.1080/13668250020032741 Tremain, S., 2002, ‘On the subject of impairment’, in M. Corker & T. Shakespeare (eds.), Disability/postmodernity: Embodying disability theory, pp.
- keywords: able; acknowledgement; africa; analysis; article; audience; authors; awareness; bodied; campus; certain; collected; communication; community; critical; cultural; data; degenderisation; differences; different; disabilities; disability; discourse; discrimination; diverse; durban; dynamics; eds; education; equality; fairclough; figure; findings; focus; forms; foucault; gender; gorter; government; groups; higher; identities; identity; impact; important; inclusive; influence; information; instance; institutions; interpretation; issues; journal; landscape; landscaping; language; learning; linguistic; lls; london; meaning; means; media; methods; modal; national; new; observed; orientation; people; perceptions; policies; policy; power; practices; press; public; research; resources; review; routledge; section; sexual; sexuality; shohamy; signage; significant; signs; silence; social; society; south; south africa; space; stereotyping; students; studies; study; terms; texts; theory; toilet; understanding; universities; university; users; way; women; world; york
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- ajod-57
- author: Office, Editorial
- title: Acknowledgement to reviewers of Volume 1, Issue 1
- date: 2013-02-07
- words: 502
- flesch: 33
- summary: In an effort to facilitate the selection of appropriate peer reviewers for the African Journal of Disability, we ask that you take a moment to update your electronic portfolio on www.ajod.org for our files, allowing us better access to your areas of interest and expertise, in order to match reviewers with submitted manuscripts. It is good practice as a reviewer to update your personal details regularly to ensure contact with you throughout your professional term as reviewer to the African Journal of Disability.
- keywords: +27; access; african; colleen; contact; daniel; david; deon; details; disability; helene; interest; journal; karen; loxton; lund; martin; open; pretorius; reviewer; timothy; tom; van; watson; website
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- ajod-575
- author: None
- title: ajod-575
- date: None
- words: 8608
- flesch: 39
- summary: Novak (2014) refers to alternatives for effective rehabilitation intervention programmes that could also include pain management intervention. https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.13710 Nilsson, S., Johnson, E. & Adolfsson, M., 2016, ‘Professionals perceptions about the need for pain management interventions for children with cerebral palsy in South African school settings’, Pain Management Nursing 17(4), 249–226.
- keywords: 2016; action; active; activities; adolfsson; adolfsson et; african; approach; bont; care; caregivers; casting; categories; cerebral; cerebral palsy; children; collection; contractures; current; data; developmental; dislocation; displacement; early; education; effective; et al; evidence; example; focus; groups; health; healthcare; hip; hägglund; improved; interventions; johnson; jönköping; knowledge; learning; level; management; medicine; motor; musculoskeletal; neurology; nilsson; nilsson et; nociceptive; novak; novak et; options; orthopaedic; pain; pain management; palsy; participants; physical; professionals; programmes; research; resources; results; review; school; settings; south; spasticity; standing; statements; strategies; stretching; study; support; surgery; surveillance; systematic; table; therapy; training; treatment; university; years
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- ajod-576
- author: None
- title: ajod-576
- date: None
- words: 5291
- flesch: 36
- summary: Regular aerobic exercises reduced lipid peroxidation, oxidative stress, arterial cell wall damage and body fat all while enhancing insulin sensitivity, which was favourably associated with lowering the metabolic risk profile of participants. One of the principal benefits of regular aerobic exercises is the use of fats (lipids) for energy, reducing fat content and thereby improving the individual’s cardiometabolic risk profile (Durstine et al. 2011).
- keywords: activity; adolescents; aerobic; article; associated; atherosclerosis; authors; balance; benefits; black; body; capacity; cardiometabolic; cardiometabolic risk; clinical; commentary; disabilities; downs; effect; empirical; et al; exercise; fat; fernhall; findings; health; high; impact; improved; insulin; interventions; journal; literature; lower; muscle; muscle strength; obesity; oxidative; patients; physical; physical activity; poor; profile; proprioception; pwds; randomised; records; recreation; regular; regular exercise; research; resistance; review; risk; rodriguez; rosety; shields; sport; strength; stress; studies; study; syndrome; table; therapy; training; years
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- ajod-577
- author: None
- title: ajod-577
- date: None
- words: 9698
- flesch: 54
- summary: The section explains the experience of participants raising children with CP, relationship between participants and people in the society, effect of child with CP on their lives and accessibility of essential services such as education and healthcare to children with CP. Galpin, J., Barratt, P., Ashcroft, E., Greathead, S., Kenny, L. & Pellicano, E., 2018, ‘The dots just don’t join up’: Understanding the support needs of families of children on the autism spectrum’, Autism 22(5), 571–584. Garip, Y., Ozel, S., Tuncer, O.B., Kilinc, G., Seckin, F. & Arasil, T., 2017, ‘Fatigue in the mothers of children with cerebral palsy’, Disability and Rehabilitation 39, 757–762. Kassah, B.L.L., Kassah, A.K. & Agbota, T.K., 2014, ‘Abuse of physically disabled women in Ghana: Its emotional consequences and coping strategies’, Disability and Rehabilitation 36, 665–671. Kassah, B.L.L., Kassah, A.K. & Phillips, D., 2018, ‘Children with intellectual disabilities and special school education in Ghana’, International Journal of Disability, Development and Education 65(3), 341–354.
- keywords: access; agyei; authors; available; baby; birth; braun; capital; caregivers; cerebral; cerebral palsy; children; condition; data; development; diagnosis; difficult; disabilities; disability; education; et al; experiences; facilities; families; family; female; following; framework; ghana; health; help; hospital; husband; impact; inclusive; individuals; informal; information; intellectual; interviews; journal; kassah; kumasi; life; lives; m.p; members; mother; need; old; opoku; palsy; parents; participants; people; policy; prevalence; primary; primary caregivers; professionals; public; rehabilitation; relationship; research; results; schools; science; services; social; societies; society; special; studies; study; support; themes; theory; time; trajectory; unable; university; years
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- ajod-582
- author: None
- title: ajod-582
- date: None
- words: 3254
- flesch: 47
- summary: For HIV screening, existing HIV counsellors provided counselling, testing and referral. During the survey, PLWDs expressed significant challenges in accessing screening services because of lack of transport and lack of health service prioritisation for PLWDs at the facilities.
- keywords: access; analysis; care; case; community; countries; data; disabilities; disability; district; hanass; hancock; health; healthcare; hiv; home; household; hypertension; integrated; malawi; malnutrition; members; national; neno; partners; people; plwds; population; programme; project; rural; screening; services; shifting; staff; statistical; study; task; testing; tuberculosis; workers; years
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- ajod-592
- author: None
- title: ajod-592
- date: None
- words: 9038
- flesch: 44
- summary: Bourdieu proposes three forms of capital: social, cultural and economic capital, and all three were deemed pertinent to university students with disabilities and the roles of their parents. The latter study found that costs varied depending on the required care and support for the students as well as mandatory assistive devices such students need.
- keywords: able; academic; access; african; appropriate; article; bourdieu; capital; care; challenges; children; college; cultural; cultural capital; data; day; different; disabilities; disability; dut; economic; economic capital; edelman; education; emotional; environment; example; experiences; extended; families; family; female; financial; finding; focus; forms; garret; group; health; higher; higher education; important; inclusive; independence; institution; interviews; involvement; journal; learning; life; literature; lives; methods; mom; mut; need; new; parental; parental support; parents; participants; particular; people; performance; practice; qualitative; religion; research; role; school; social; social capital; south; spirituality; students; studies; study; success; support; supportive; technology; theory; time; transition; understanding; universities; university; work; year
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- ajod-594
- author: Office, Editorial
- title: Acknowledgement to reviewers
- date: 2018-12-05
- words: 661
- flesch: 33
- summary: Albert M. Warnick Alta Kritzinger Ameer S.J. Hohlfeld Anthony K. Edusei Anthony K. Danso Arne H. Eide Awie Greeff Bassey E. Ebenso Biftu Geda Boitumelo Mangope Brent E. Archer Brian Watermeyer Brinton Lykes Callista K. Kahonde Charlotte Capri Chioma Ohajunwa Chris-Mike Agbelie Christine Peta Cina P. Mosito Claire E. Brolan Clare Harvey Clever Taderera Cliona O’Sullivan Dana Donohue David Howe Desire Chiwandire Diane Bell Eleanor Ross Elizabeth Hughes Elizabeth Townsend Elizabeth Walton Elizabeth M. Dalton Emily Mendenhall Estelle Swart Eva Orantes-Gonzalez Eva S. Bazant Ferdiliza D.S. Garcia Fleur H. Boot Gerard Goggin Grace Vincent-Onabajo Gubela Mji Guy W. McIlroy Heather M. Aldersey Heidi Lourens Helga E. Lister Henry Mbaya Jason R. Bantjes Jenna-Lee Procter Jenny Shumba Jonathan Pearlman Joslin Dogbe Joyce Mothabeng Juan Bornman Judith A. Mckenzie Karen Levin Kate A. Sherry Khetsiwe P. Masuku Leslie Swartz Libak Abou Lieketseng Ned Lisa Saville-Young Lizahn G. Cloete Lorna Dreyer Lyndsay Alexander Lynn Cockburn Madoda P. Cekiso Madri Engelbrecht Maggie Williams Marcia Lyner-Cleophas Margaret M. Wazakili Margie Schneider Maria Berghs Marieanna le Roux Martha Geiger Mary Wickenden Mary G. Clasquin-Johnson Maximus M. Sefotho Meenakshi Srivastava Mershen Pillay Michelle Hoogenhout Mokgadi K. Mashola Mpofu Jabulani Munyane Mophosho Muziwakhe D. Tshabalala Nadine M. Lindinger Nashareen Morris Natasha A. Layton Nelly Mwale Nicholas Dowdall Nicola Deghaye Nomfundo F. Moroe Nora Groce Oliver Mutanga Olufemi O. Oyewole Paul I. Chappell Peter Mapepa Peter Rule Petra Engelbrecht Phoebe Runciman Poul A. Rohleder Quinette Louw Rebecca A. Matter Reinette Popplestone Riaan Mulder Richard Vergunst Robert Evans Rose Richards Rosemary Exner Rosemary Luger Sameerchand Pudaruth Sarah M. Anjos Saurav Basu Seyi L. Amosun Sharon Kleintjes Shona McDonald Sindile A. Ngubane-Mokiwa Steve Reid Stine H. Braathen Sulina Green Susan Shore Susan R. Whyte Tamlyn C. McKenzie Tawanda Chivese Tehmina Hammad Terry J. Ellapen Theresa Lorenzo Toughieda Elloker Toyin M. Adewumi Vic McKinney Victor de Andrade Wayne Derman Wilfred Lunga Wisdom K. Mprah Xolile Simon Yumna Albertus Yvonne Lynch Zuzana Matousova-Done https://ajod.org https://ajod.org https://ajod.org https://ajod.org/index.php/ajod/user https://ajod.org/index.php/ajod/user mailto:publishing@aosis.co.za Read online: Scan this QR code with your smart phone or mobile device to read online.
- keywords: access; acknowledgement; african; anthony; appropriate; contact; details; disability; elizabeth; eva; expertise; https://ajod.org/index.php/ajod/user; interest; journal; manuscript; mary; online; peer; process; publication; reviewer; rosemary; selection; susan; tel; timely; user; website
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- ajod-605
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 398
- flesch: 47
- summary: Rethinking disability: The need to rethink representation Book title: Rethinking disability: World perspectives in culture and society Author: Devlieger, P., Miranda-Galarza, B., Brown, S.E. & Strickfaden, M. (Eds.) Rethinking disability: The need to rethink representation Reviewer: Jenna-Lee Procter1 Affiliation: 1Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Corresponding author: Jenna-Lee Procter, jennalee.za@gmail.com How to cite this article:
- keywords: article; colour; disability; erratum; need; people; representation; review; world
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- ajod-606
- author: None
- title: ajod-606
- date: None
- words: 263
- flesch: 27
- summary: About the Author(s) Julius T. Kamwesiga Department of Neurobiology Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institute, Sweden Occupational Therapy School, Institute of Allied Health and Management Sciences - Mulago, Uganda Lena K. von Koch Department of Neurobiology Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institute, Sweden Department of Neurology, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden Gunilla M. Eriksson Department of Neurobiology Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institute, Sweden Department of Neuroscience, Rehabilitation Medicine, Uppsala University, Sweden Susanne G.E. Guidetti Department of Neurobiology Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institute, Sweden Citation Kamwesiga, J.T., Von Koch, L.K., Eriksson, G.M. & Guidetti, S.G.E., 2019, ‘Corrigendum: The impact of stroke on people living in central Uganda: A descriptive study’, African Journal of Disability 8(0), a606. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v8i0.606 Note: DOI of original article: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v7i0.438 Corrigendum Corrigendum: The impact of stroke on people living in central Uganda: A descriptive study Julius T. Kamwesiga, Lena K. von Koch, Gunilla M. Eriksson, Susanne G.E. Guidetti Published: 10 Oct. 2019 Copyright: In the version of this article published earlier, the surname of the second author, Lena K. von Koch, was inadvertently misspelt as ‘von Kock’.
- keywords: care; department; institute; karolinska; sciences; society; sweden
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- ajod-607
- author: Office, Editorial
- title: Table of Contents Vol 7 (2018)
- date: 2018-12-11
- words: 1188
- flesch: -18
- summary: ISSN: 2226-7220 (online)African Journal of Disability http://www.ajod.org Open Access Table of Contents ii Original Research Preferred rehabilitation setting among stroke survivors in Nigeria and associated personal factors Grace Vincent-Onabajo, Zulaiha Mohammed African Journal of Disability | Vol 7 | a352 | 17 July 2018 Original Research Analysing disability policy in Namibia: An occupational justice perspective Tongai F. Chichaya, Robin W.E. Joubert, Mary Ann McColl African Journal of Disability | Vol 7 | a401 | 31 July 2018 Original Research Support to address barriers to learning for learners who are deaf Peter Mapepa, Meahabo D. Magano African Journal of Disability | Vol 7 | a381 | 22 October 2018 Original Research Perceptions and satisfaction of caregivers regarding rehabilitation services from selected rehabilitation centres in the Western Cape Nondwe B. Mlenzana, Arne H. Eide, Jose M. Frantz African Journal of Disability | Vol 7 | a415 | 25 October 2018 Original Research The carry-over effect of an aquatic-based intervention in children with cerebral palsy Samantha J. Ballington, Rowena Naidoo African Journal of Disability | Vol 7 | a361 | 29 October 2018 Original Research Part 2: The feasibility of utilising photovoice method and the World Health Organization Quality of Life instrument in evaluating the Community-Based Rehabilitation programme in Namibia: A pilot study Tonderai W. Shumba, Indres Moodley African Journal of Disability | Vol 7 | a419 | 01 The relationship between social support and participation in stroke: A systematic review Toughieda Elloker, Anthea J. Rhoda African Journal of Disability | Vol 7 | a357 | 10 October 2018 Review Article Parents of children with disabilities: A systematic review of parenting interventions and self-efficacy Ameer S.J. Hohlfeld, Michal Harty, Mark E. Engel African Journal of Disability | Vol 7 | a437 | 17 October 2018 Review Article Implementation of the 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Zimbabwe: A review Cowen Dziva, Munatsi Shoko, Ellen F. Zvogbo African Journal of Disability | Vol 7 | a389 | 22 October 2018 Review Article Part 1: A review of using photovoice as a disability research method: Implications for eliciting the experiences of persons with disabilities on the Community Based Rehabilitation programme in Namibia Tonderai W. Shumba, Indres Moodley African Journal of Disability | Vol 7 | a418 | 01 November 2018 1 3 6 23 31 41 50 62 69 Vol 7 (2018)
- keywords: african; african journal; april; article; children; contents; deaf; disabilities; disability; experiences; health; journal; july; march; mary; namibia; november; october; original; original research; persons; peter; rehabilitation; research; review; stroke; study; table; vol
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- ajod-610
- author: None
- title: ajod-610
- date: None
- words: 6778
- flesch: 41
- summary: To bridge the gap of CPD in the area of CP, Malamulele Onward, a South African non-profit organisation (NPO number: 2006/032287/08) based in Johannesburg, has been offering practical training courses on CP for newly qualified therapists since 2014. These outcomes from short practical training courses are similar to those observed in a practical CPD course that targeted clinical decision-making and use of evidence-based practice in paediatric rehabilitation by physiotherapists in Rwanda (Clark et al. 2018), short skills training course for critical care for Sri Lankan physiotherapists (Tunpattu et al. 2018) and a practical course on evidence-based practice for Irish occupational therapists (Brangan, Quinn & Spirtus 2015).
- keywords: adult; africa; analysis; appendix; approach; areas; attitude; care; cerebral; change; children; clinical; communication; community; course; cpd; data; development; education; et al; evaluation; expectations; experience; form; health; information; interprofessional; journal; knowledge; learning; level; malamulele; management; methods; naidoo; need; occupational; onward; outcomes; palsy; participants; perceptions; physiotherapists; physiotherapy; practical; practice; professional; qualified; qualified therapists; qualitative; questionnaire; readiness; records; rehabilitation; research; self; service; short; singh; skills; south; specific; speech; studies; study; table; teaching; terms; therapists; therapy; tools; training; training course; undergraduate; value; van; working; years
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- ajod-611
- author: None
- title: ajod-611
- date: None
- words: 8394
- flesch: 34
- summary: Frames of inclusive education implementation in primary teacher education The second theme considered how the participants perceived the implementation of inclusive education in the teacher training programme, and the findings were consistent with my initial assumption that inclusive education relies on a multi-level approach. Method: Drawing on the conceptual vocabulary of frame analysis and the qualitative analysis of individual and group interviews and classroom observations, the interpretations of inclusive education implementation in preservice primary teacher education in Uganda were examined.
- keywords: analysis; approach; article; benford; cambridge; case; change; children; classroom; coleridge; conceptual; concerns; context; critical; curriculum; data; design; development; disabilities; discourses; education; education implementation; education programme; education reform; educators; enable; example; exclusion; experiences; experts; findings; frames; framing; global; goffman; group; hetland; historical; ict; impairments; implementation; inclusion; inclusive education; individual; institutions; international; interpretations; interviews; journal; knowledge; learners; learning; level; meso; micro; munene; needs; observations; participants; particular; pedagogical; phase; physical; policy; practices; practitioners; present; preservice; preservice teacher; press; primary; process; programme; project; ptcs; reality; reform; research; revised; schools; slee; sne; social; sociocultural; special; special education; specific; study; support; teacher; teacher education; teacher training; teaching; terms; theory; time; training; uganda; understanding; unesco; university; woodcock; zajda
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- ajod-614
- author: None
- title: ajod-614
- date: None
- words: 6678
- flesch: 46
- summary: Aletta M. Moll Department of Psychology of Education, College of Education, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa Garfield Bester Department of Psychology of Education, College of Education, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa Citation Moll, A.M. & Bester, G., 2019, ‘Factors that relate to sport participation of adolescents with a mobility impairment ’, African Journal of Disability 8(0), a614. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v8i0.614 Original Research Factors that relate to sport participation of adolescents with a mobility impairment Aletta M. Moll, Garfield Bester Received: 24 Jan. 2019; Accepted: 24 June 2019; Published: 23 Sept. 2019 Copyright: © 2019. Health is a factor that can inhibit sports participation; however, it should not be overemphasised.
- keywords: activities; activity; adaptive; adolescents; africa; age; athletes; barriers; boys; category; children; confidence; control; current; data; depression; development; differences; disability; education; emotional; emotions; exercise; factors; friends; gender; girls; group; health; hostel; impairment; important; information; investigation; journal; lack; learners; life; mainstream; mobility; mobility impairment; non; parents; participation; people; personal; physical; possible; profile; psychology; questionnaire; reasons; regard; relationships; research; respondents; results; sample; school; self; significant; social; south; sport; sport participation; study; table; time; trust; type; university; variable; variance
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- ajod-618
- author: None
- title: ajod-618
- date: None
- words: 5706
- flesch: 42
- summary: Keeping in mind the budget and resource implications, future studies should look at larger cohorts with age-matched groups, multiple recruitment sites and longer data collection periods that are required for more generalisable results and to provide a better understanding of the unique functional needs and outcomes of HIV+ stroke patients. This feasibility study aims to determine the requirements for a large descriptive cohort, to adequately describe the functional outcome of stroke patients with varying HIV status.
- keywords: activities; addition; adl; admission; africa; age; analysis; assistive; balance; bbs; berg; cape; centre; clinicians; collection; data; devices; difference; disability; discharge; et al; feasibility; functional; functioning; future; groups; health; heikinheimo; hiv; hiv status; human; independence; information; journal; measures; median; medical; medicine; mobility; modi; multiple; outcome; participants; patients; people; period; post; potential; previous; recruitment; regard; rehabilitation; research; results; risk; saharan; sample; scale; score; significant; sites; south; statistical; status; stroke; stroke patients; studies; study; sub; table; testing; university; unknown; wcrc
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- ajod-628
- author: None
- title: ajod-628
- date: None
- words: 6639
- flesch: 37
- summary: To examine if time of onset of blindness influenced resilience, participants were grouped into adults with adventitious (M = 48.65, SD = 12.05) and congenital (M = 43.05, SD = 11.26) blindness. According to these authors, if persons with blindness lack resilience, they will be blamed for not having some internal resilient abilities.
- keywords: ababa; addis; adults; available; awb; barriers; blindness; bonanno; capacity; challenges; children; comparisons; connor; context; data; davidson; demographics; development; different; disabilities; disability; divorced; e.g.; educated; education; environment; ethiopia; factors; gender; general; groups; higher; individual; journal; level; life; living; luthar; marital; married; mean; onset; participants; people; persons; possible; present; process; protective; psychology; research; resilience; resources; respondents; results; review; risk; samples; scale; score; significant; single; social; status; studies; study; support; time; women
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- ajod-629
- author: None
- title: ajod-629
- date: None
- words: 9463
- flesch: 40
- summary: https://doi.org/10.1080/03075070410001682592 Garland-Thomson, R., 1998, ‘Body criticism as a context for disability studies’, Disability Studies Quarterly 17(4), 297–300. Garland-Thomson, R., 2002, ‘Integrating disability, transforming feminist theory’, NWSA Journal 14(3), 1–32. Abstract Introduction Aims and objectives Study design Results Discussion of key findings Strengths and limitations Recommendations Conclusion Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Taegan Devar People Smart Consulting, Durban, South Africa Shaida Bobat School of Applied Human Sciences, Discipline of Psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa Shanya Reuben School of Applied Human Sciences, Discipline of Psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa Citation Devar, T., Bobat, S. & Reuben, S., 2020, ‘Representation and methods of normalisation: Narratives of disability within a South African tertiary institution’, African Journal of Disability 9(0), a629.
- keywords: access; african; bodies; body; burr; certain; context; cultural; data; different; disabilities; disability; disabled; dominant; education; excerpts; experience; female; feminist; fit; foucault; framework; garland; healey; heis; higher; higher education; human; impairment; individuals; institution; journal; key; knowledge; language; lecturers; male; manner; members; methods; mutanga; narratives; need; new; normalisation; old; participant; people; personal; policy; positive; power; psychology; pwd; reeves; representations; research; researchers; school; services; social; society; south; specific; staff; students; study; subjects; support; swd; system; tertiary; things; thomson; time; understandings; university; years
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- ajod-63
- author: None
- title: ajod-63
- date: None
- words: 8634
- flesch: 48
- summary: The experiences of public-sector healthcare users and service providers with regards to wheelchair services in a remote, rural district in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa are described, as 80% of the South African population relies on government subsidised healthcare services (Blecher et al. 2011). A further five individuals who were knowledgeable on wheelchair services were identified and interviewed in June 2010.
- keywords: 2006b; access; addition; africa; analysis; approach; appropriate; article; assessment; assistive; author; basic; cape; challenges; clinical; community; comprehensive; data; delivery; department; devices; doh; equitable; et al; female; findings; fitting; follow; fraserburg; function; government; guidelines; health; healthcare; implementation; information; international; journal; lack; level; life; limited; local; maintenance; management; mobility; national; needs; order; participants; persons; physical; policy; poor; postural; practice; prescription; primary; product; programme; providers; provincial; provision; quality; referral; regard; rehabilitation; repairs; research; results; rights; rural; service; service delivery; service providers; service step; setting; south; south africa; specific; staff; step; study; support; technology; time; training; uncrpd; user; wheelchair; wheelchair service; years
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- ajod-635
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 1826
- flesch: 35
- summary: en ce qui a trait au handicap et à la technologie, qu’elles soient de nature linguistique, symbolique ou culturelle. La troisième fournit différents types d’analyse des représentations imbriquées du handicap, de la technologie aux impacts de la technologie sur la vie socioéconomique et culturelle des personnes en situation de handicap et de leur entourage.
- keywords: africains; african; book; contextes; contextes africains; coster; dans; des; devlieger; disabilities; disability; divers; est; handicap; jori; khonde; lambert; les; leur; livre; léon; mbadu; nieme; nous; par; patrick; people; personnes; pour; que; review; situation; sur; technology
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- ajod-643
- author: None
- title: ajod-643
- date: None
- words: 6704
- flesch: 49
- summary: https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v32i2.3197 Njoroge, N., 2001, ‘Not an option: Ministry with and for people with disabilities’, Ministerial Formation 92, 7–9, viewed 23 April 2016, from www.wcc.coe.org/wcc/what/education/mf92. Obosi, S., 2010, Disability-friendly language: Human rights imperative or game of linguistic leapfrog?, Frome, viewed 15 August 2019, from covaw.or.ke/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/A-discussion-paper-on-Language-and-Disability.pdf. Okola, A., 2011, ‘Education, employment, and health: A disability perspective’, in S. Kabue, E. Mombo, J. Galgalo & C.S. Peter (eds.), Disability, society and theology: Wright, B.A., 1960, Physical disability: A psychological approach, Harper and BON, New York.
- keywords: abled; abnormal; access; african; appellations; article; bad; basis; binaries; binary; bitso; bodies; body; bokooa; category; centre; concepts; construct; context; cultural; culture; deconstruction; derrida; difference; disabilities; disability; disabled; disenfranchising; eds; education; fact; galvin; hierarchy; history; human; identity; inherent; justice; language; lebe; lens; leshota; linguistic; london; meaning; naming; negative; new; normal; ominous; people; perceptions; person; physical; power; proverb; pwds; roman; sense; seromo; sesotho; social; society; studies; subject; term; term disability; time; university; use; view; words; world; years
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- ajod-645
- author: None
- title: ajod-645
- date: None
- words: 8626
- flesch: 43
- summary: Keywords: PWDs; disability entrepreneurship; PWD’s empowerment; trade facilitation; cross-border trade. These challenges have been so persistent that they are slowly becoming inherent aspects of cross-border trade.
- keywords: able; absence; access; african; article; associated; barriers; beitbridge; benefits; border; border entrepreneurship; bowman; case; challenges; chirundu; clearance; communication; conditions; countries; creation; cross; cross border; dependents; development; disabilities; disability; disablers; economic; employment; empowerment; entrepreneurship; entry; entry points; environment; experiences; facilitation; factors; goods; government; hidden; hindrances; impact; informal; infrastructure; international; issues; jaeger; journal; livelihood; living; lot; makers; management; marunda; means; medium; muzvidziwa; nations; need; new; non; ntbs; osbp; participation; people; persons; physical; points; policy; procedural; pwds; repms; research; rights; road; ruffin; sadc; sector; security; self; small; smes; social; society; source; south; stakeholders; stop; study; systems; tag; tariff; theory; things; trade; united; use; venture; way; work; world; zimano; zimbabwe
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- ajod-647
- author: None
- title: ajod-647
- date: None
- words: 7103
- flesch: 37
- summary: The themes that emanated from this research show that university students with SLD are largely on their own with regard to coping with the academic demands of tertiary education. https://doi.org/10.2307/2943806 Strnadová, I., Hájková, V. & Květoňová, L., 2015, ‘Voices of university students with disabilities: Inclusive education on the tertiary level: A reality or a distant dream?’, International Journal of Inclusive Education 19(10), 1080–1095.
- keywords: 2017; academic; access; africa; apa; appraisal; articles; barriers; basic; data; department; determination; development; disabilities; disability; disorder; doe; dreyer; education; equal; ethical; experiences; findings; focus; heis; higher; higher education; implementation; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive education; institutions; journal; kendall; learning; learning disabilities; lecturers; level; literature; meta; national; needs; paper; participation; pedagogical; physical; policies; policy; practices; prisma; qsr; qualitative; quality; question; research; results; review; school; sld; slds; social; south; specific; students; studies; study; success; support; systematic; teaching; training; transformation; undergraduate; universities; university; visible; white
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- ajod-650
- author: None
- title: ajod-650
- date: None
- words: 6913
- flesch: 38
- summary: The former (1) focused on caregiver mobilisation by community groups, caregiver registration data, monitoring visits completed and adaptations. https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2016.1206607 Bunning, K., Gona, J.K., Newton, C.R. & Hartley, S. 2017, ‘The perception of disability by community groups: Stories of local understanding, beliefs and challenges in a rural part of Kenya’, PLoS One 12(8) e0182214.
- keywords: 2010; 2019; access; active; active groups; activities; africa; analysis; attendance; bunning; caregivers; challenges; characteristics; children; chw; community; countries; critical; data; development; disabilities; disability; education; empowerment; et al; evaluation; example; external; factors; functional; generation; gona; groups; hartley; health; help; help groups; implementation; inactive; inactive groups; income; information; journal; kenya; kilifi; lack; leadership; level; literacy; meetings; members; membership; monitoring; numeracy; opportunities; participation; people; period; poor; present; process; processes; project; registration; rehabilitation; research; review; self; set; shgs; skills; social; status; strengths; study; sub; support; swot; table; threats; visits; weaknesses; women; zimmerman
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- ajod-651
- author: None
- title: ajod-651
- date: None
- words: 8454
- flesch: 31
- summary: Transformative equality should be pursued when identifying accommodations in court for persons with communication disabilities, as the aim should be to enable such individuals to participate equally in court, without barriers and discrimination. Conclusion: Foreign and national law clearly prohibits discrimination against persons with communication disabilities because of their disability and state that they should be given fair and equal access to the court system.
- keywords: access; accommodations; act; african; african court; alternative; analysis; appropriate; article; augmentative; author; barriers; bornman; children; communication; communication disabilities; convention; court; court accommodations; court system; crime; criminal; crpd; data; disabilities; disability; discrimination; discussion; effective; equality; evidence; example; experts; features; flynn; foreign; health; human; individuals; intellectual; intermediary; international; journal; justice; justice system; language; law; laws; legal; linguistic; mental; nations; needs; non; panel; participants; participation; persons; preparation; pretoria; procedural; process; professionals; research; review; rights; risk; role; rules; severe; sexual; south; south african; specific; states; study; symbol; system; testimony; themes; training; transformative; united; use; victims; violence; vulnerable; white; witness; witnesses
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- ajod-657
- author: None
- title: ajod-657
- date: None
- words: 6394
- flesch: 29
- summary: Opinions and perceptions of physical activity Involvement in sport, exercise and other forms of leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) produces several health advantages amongst people with physical disabilities. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003633 Lakowski, T. & Long, T., 2011, ‘Physical activity and sport for people with disabilities: Symposium and strategic planning’, viewed 14 August 2018, from https://www.ncfit.org/files/PhysicalActivityProceedings.pdf Lasonen, J., Kemppainen, R. & Raheem, K., 2005, An evaluation of approaching EFA goals, viewed 14 September 2018, from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/44835979_Education_and_training_in_Ethiopia_An_evaluation_of_approaching_EFA_goals Lui, K.C. & Hui, S.S., 2009, ‘Participation in and adherence to physical activity in people with physical disability’, Hong Kong Physiotherapy Journal 27(1), 30–38.
- keywords: activity; activity participation; adapted; africa; age; ages; august; bank; benefits; children; convention; countries; country; csa; data; day; demographic; development; disabilities; disability; disabled; economic; education; employment; ethiopia; exercise; general; health; human; impairment; individuals; international; likert; limb; limited; lower; majority; male; nations; non; october; opinion; organization; participants; participation; people; persons; physical; physical activity; population; prevalence; primary; profile; questionnaire; rate; report; research; respect; respondents; results; rights; road; sample; scale; school; secondary; september; significant; social; sport; status; study; table; terms; traffic; unesco; united; vision; women; work; world; years
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- ajod-662
- author: None
- title: ajod-662
- date: None
- words: 8053
- flesch: 40
- summary: Schneider, M., 2006, Strategies for skills acquisition and work for people with disabilities, A report (for South Africa) submitted to the ILO, Geneva, by Thabo Mbeki Development Trust for People with disabilities, People with disabilities South Africa, and Human Sciences Research Council (ILO, Geneva, December. 2006), viewed 10 August 2017, from www.hsrc.ac.za/en/research-data/ktree-doc/1335. Seirlis, A. & Swartz, L., 2006, ‘Entrepreneurship, employment and skills development (Chapter 25)’, in B. Watermeyer, L. Swartz, T. Lorenzo, M. Schneider & M. Priestly (eds.), Disability and social change – A South Africa agenda, pp. Hartley, S. & Muhit, M., 2003, ‘Using qualitative research methods for disability research in majority world countries’, Asia Pacific Disability Rehabilitation Journal 14(2), 103–114. Hästbacka, E., Nygård, M. & Nyqvist, F., 2016, ‘Barriers and facilitators to the societal participation of people with disabilities: A scoping review of studies concerning European countries’, ALTER-European Journal of Disability Research 10(3), 201–220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alter.2016.02.002 Hoogeveen, J.G., 2005, ‘Measuring welfare for small but vulnerable groups: Poverty and disability in Uganda’, Journal of African Economies 14(4), 603–631. Jones, M.K. & Jones, J., 2008, ‘The labour market impact of the UK Disability Discrimination Act: Evidence from the repeal of the small firm exemption’, Bulletin of Economic Research 60(30), 289–378. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8586.2008.00281.x Joseph, O.B., 2015, ‘The effect of employees’ motivation on organizational performance’, Journal of Public Administration and Policy Research 7(4), 62–75.
- keywords: accommodation; activities; africa; analysis; barriers; case; challenges; communication; data; decision; department; development; different; disabilities; disability; disabled; discrimination; economic; eds; education; employment; english; experience; findings; funds; generating; good; government; human; igas; impact; income; individuals; information; institutional; interviews; jones; journal; labour; lack; language; life; london; long; making; market; method; model; motivation; national; needs; new; observations; old; paper; participants; participation; people; physical; policy; poverty; pretoria; printer; products; projects; qualitative; quality; report; republic; research; review; sesotho; sheltered; skills; social; society; south; south africa; state; strategies; study; support; tools; training; university; use; workers; working; workplace; workshop; world; year
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- ajod-664
- author: None
- title: ajod-664
- date: None
- words: 10015
- flesch: 36
- summary: The checklist prompted the participants’ perceptions in six domains important for disability inclusion and accessibility of NGOs and DPOs: level of disability accessibility through universal design and reasonable accommodation, disability-related sensitisation and training of staff, the ability to screen and identify disability, the ability to provide or refer to disability services, linkages to poverty alleviation programmes focusing on people with disabilities and linkages to civil society, including those focusing on violence. The organisational profile and level of disability inclusion The managers and directors of the participating organisations provided information related to the level of inclusion in the organisations’ policies and strategic plans, the accessibility of activities and facilities, the training and capacity of staff and the linkages to other NGOs and DPOs, disability services, violence and poverty alleviation programmes.
- keywords: abuse; access; accessibility; accommodation; activities; address; africa; aids; alight; botswana; capacity; change; children; community; country; data; deaf; design; development; disabilities; disability; disability inclusion; dpos; gaps; gbv; gender; girls; government; hanass; hancock; health; hiv; important; inclusion; income; increase; information; issues; july; lack; language; level; manager; ministry; national; need; ngos; opportunities; organisations; participants; participation; partner; people; physical; policies; policy; prevention; programmes; project; reach; reasonable; report; representatives; research; resources; rights; services; sexual; sign; south; specific; srhr; staff; study; support; table; training; universal; violence; women; work
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- ajod-669
- author: None
- title: ajod-669
- date: None
- words: 9411
- flesch: 51
- summary: With two CWID who were almost 10 years old, their behaviour posed a danger and a threat to other children. To illustrate, in the casebook the humanness of the children is portrayed, who demonstrated their ‘capacities for love and for happiness’ (Kittay 1999:152), by their appreciation of music, their care for other children and their expression of gratitude and affection.
- keywords: admission; admittance; affection; africa; age; analysis; annual; article; asylum; attention; behaviour; cape; care; casebook; cases; children; chronic; clarke; colony; condition; cwid; disabilities; disability; disabled; doctors; documents; education; entries; epilepsy; experiences; families; family; father; good; grahamstown; greenlees; group; hgm; history; home; hospital; humanness; imbecile; improvement; insanity; institute; intellectual; journal; kittay; learning; life; life stories; little; means; medical; mental; multiply; number; offer; old; paralysis; parents; patients; people; personhood; plessis; press; progress; public; pwid; record; reports; research; scientific; second; sick; society; south; stories; studies; study; t.d; taylor; time; treatment; unable; university; work; years
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- ajod-670
- author: None
- title: ajod-670
- date: None
- words: 7671
- flesch: 30
- summary: Simply providing a service does not make it accessible or worthwhile for at-risk children (DBE 2012a); thus, the focus must be on the teacher to bring changes to SE teaching and learning, and perhaps have more vigorous campaigning to make changes in the macro and exo education systems, setting the stage for quicker change and encouraging people to take individual responsibility. Engelbrecht, P., Nel, M., Smit, S. & Van Deventer, M., 2016, ‘The idealism of education policies and the realities in schools: The implementation of inclusive education in South Africa’, International Journal of Inclusive Education 20(5), 520–535.
- keywords: african; approach; barriers; basic; bio; bronfenbrenner; challenges; characteristics; children; context; dbe; department; development; dimension; disabilities; disability; diverse; doe; ecological; education; education system; engelbrecht; environment; exo; factors; figure; framework; government; human; implementation; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive education; individual; influence; interactions; international; journal; lack; layers; learners; learning; level; meso; micro; model; morris; nature; needs; nel; new; outcomes; person; perspective; pettipher; policies; policy; poor; ppct; pretoria; printers; processes; proximal; quality; report; research; resources; school; service; social; south; special; special education; steyn; support; swart; system; systemic; teachers; teaching; time; transformation; tudge
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- ajod-671
- author: None
- title: ajod-671
- date: None
- words: 6427
- flesch: 47
- summary: Recently, some empirical studies have focused on access (including financial) (Badu et al. 2015, 2018), barriers to access (Badu, AgyeiBaffour & Opoku 2016a), challenges (Ganle et al. 2016), perspectives of PWDs on attitudes of health service providers (Badu, Opoku & Appiah 2016b), utilisation and satisfaction with health services (Abraham, Agyei-Baffour & Yarfi 2018) and other SRH-related issues (Badu et al. 2019; Karimu 2017). This offers a better understanding of the demand and supply side opportunities and barriers rather than viewing health services utilisation as only a one-sided phenomenon.
- keywords: access; age; andersen; associated; badu; barriers; blind; challenges; characteristics; data; deaf; demographic; disabilities; disability; disabling; ecological; education; enabling; et al; factors; female; ghana; group; health; health services; healthcare; hiv; instance; insurance; interventions; journal; level; likely; main; middle; model; need; northern; people; persons; population; public; pupils; reproductive; reproductive health; research; respondents; schools; self; services; sexual; social; special; srhs; srhs utilisation; status; stis; students; studies; study; table; type; use; utilisation; years; young; young people; ypwds; zone
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- ajod-674
- author: None
- title: ajod-674
- date: None
- words: 4027
- flesch: 45
- summary: https://doi.org/64/Suppl_2/S37[pii] Al-Yateem, N. & Docherty, C., 2015, ‘Transition: A concept of significance to nursing and health care professionals’, Journal of Nursing Education and Practice 5(5), 35. https://doi.org/10.5430/jnep.v5n5p35 American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians & American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine, 2002, ‘A consensus statement on health care transitions for young adults with special health care needs’, Pediatrics 110(6 Pt 2), 1304–1306. An individual with disability also needs healthcare transition services from paediatric to adult healthcare settings (Betz, Nehring & Lobo 2015).
- keywords: adolescents; adulthood; adults; advocacy; africa; american; analysis; authors; care; children; chronic; community; data; department; disabilities; disability; families; family; female; health; healthcare; healthcare transition; individuals; intellectual; interviews; journal; living; need; nurses; nursing; old; participants; pediatrics; planning; process; promotion; rehabilitation; research; role; services; south; studies; study; support; systems; transition; transition process; years; young
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- ajod-675
- author: None
- title: ajod-675
- date: None
- words: 8706
- flesch: 54
- summary: https://doi.org/10.1002/pri.204 Hopman-Rock, M., Odding, E., Hofman, A., Kraaimaat, F.W. & Bijlsma, J.W., 1996, ‘Physical and psychosocial disability in elderly subjects in relation to pain in the hip and/or knee’, Journal of Rheumatology 23(6), 1037–1044. Jiang, L., Rong, J., Wang, Y., Hu, F., Bao, C., Li, X. et al., 2011, ‘The relationship between body mass index and hip osteoarthritis: A systematic review and meta-analysis’, Joint Bone Spine 78(2), 150–155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbspin.2010.04.011 Jordan, J.M., Helmick, C.G., Renner, J.B., Luta, G., Dragomir, A.D., Woodard, J. et al., 2009, ‘Prevalence of hip symptoms and radiographic and symptomatic hip osteoarthritis in African Americans and Caucasians: The Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project’, The Journal of Rheumatology 36(4), 809–815. In aseptic osteonecrosis of the femoral head, bone cells or osteocytes are affected by a metabolic disorder and their nutrition modified by a simple local reduction in circulation below the threshold that ensures their survival (Lespasio et al. 2019; Narayanan et al. 2017).
- keywords: activity; activités; aetiology; africa; analysis; appendix; arokoski; aseptic; association; authors; benin; beninese; body; bone; cartilage; classification; clinical; cotonou; cours; dans; degradation; difference; disability; disease; et al; factors; faux; femoral; form; function; functioning; gait; grades; hand; head; health; hip; hip osteoarthritis; hoa; iii; index; influence; international; iqr; jamais; joint; journal; j’ai; knee; kpadonou; leg; limitations; limité; lower; l’étude; medicine; motion; muscle; osteoarthritis; osteonecrosis; oui; outcomes; pain; participants; participation; pas; patients; peu; physical; plutôt; population; position; pour; pressure; primary; qol; quality; que; questionnaire; radiographic; range; rehabilitation; research; rheumatology; rom; santé; secondary; secondary hoa; semaines; severity; sf-36; significant; souvent; state; status; strength; structures; study; survey; table; temps; test; thigh; tout; très; une; universitaire; votre; vous; womac; ↓________________↓____________↓________________↓_______________↓
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- ajod-681
- author: None
- title: ajod-681
- date: None
- words: 3304
- flesch: 34
- summary: At the core of the aims and objectives of AfriNEAD is the investigation into how disability research evidence influenced government. It is the first network on the African continent that has focused on the issue of how disability research is translated into policy and practice for the realisation of the rights of persons with disabilities in Africa (Mji et al. 2009).
- keywords: access; action; african; african network; afrinead; area; assistive; centre; conference; countries; disabilities; disability; education; evidence; fifth; health; inclusion; issue; journal; knust; maclachlan; mji; need; network; papers; people; persons; practice; rehabilitation; related; research; researchers; rights; role; social; special; studies; technology; uncrpd; university
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- ajod-682
- author: Office, Editorial
- title: Acknowledgement to reviewers
- date: 2019-12-11
- words: 594
- flesch: 28
- summary: Albert M. Warnick Alister C. Munthali Anthony K. Edusei Arne H. Eide Boitumelo Mangope Brent E. Archer Callista K. Kahonde Carmelita Jacobs Caroline Beltran Cat Trollope Charles Ngwena Chioma Ohajunwa Chris de Beer-Procter Christine Peta Clever Taderera Cosmos Yarfi Daleen Klop Dana Donohue Desire Chiwandire Diane Bell Edward Bell Eleanor Ross Emily Mendenhall Emmanuel E. Esambe Ensa Johnson Estelle Swart Eva S. Bazant Fleur H. Boot Frances E. Owusu-Ansah Gbenga E. Afolayan Gerard Goggin Gert van Rooy Gloria Marsay Grace Vincent-Onabajo Graham Lindegger Gubela Mji Guy W. McIlroy Heather M. Aldersey Heidi Lourens Helen L. Laas Helga E. Lister Ilze Slabbert Indumathi Rao Ishbel McWha-Hermann James Chakwizira Janine Verstraete Jenna-Lee Procter Jennifer Kromberg Jenny Shumba Jonathan J. Makuwira Joseph Conran Joseph K. Gona Judith A. Mckenzie Kate A. Sherry Lameze Abrahams Lauren Graham Leslie Swartz Libak Abou Lieketseng Ned Linda de Villiers Lindy McAllister Lizahn G. Cloete Lorna Dreyer Louise Gustafsson Madoda P. Cekiso Madri Engelbrecht Marcia Lyner-Cleophas Margaret M. Wazakili Mark Carew Mark Harniss Mary Wickenden Mary G. Clasquin-Johnson Maximus M. Sefotho Meenakshi Srivastava Mershen Pillay Michal Harty Michelle Botha Munyane Mophosho Nashareen Morris Nectarios Papavarnavas Nidhi Singal Nomfundo F. Moroe Nontembeko Bila Oliver Mutanga Olufemi O. Oyewole Phoebe Runciman Richard Vergunst Robert Gould Romy Parker Ronelle Carolissen Rose Richards Rosemary Exner Rosemary Luger Rowena Naidoo Roy McConkey Sally Swartz Sarah M. Anjos Sharon Kleintjes Shona McDonald Sindile A. Ngubane-Mokiwa Siyabulela Mkabile Sonti Pilusa Steve Reid Stine H. Braathen Sulina Green Susan R. Whyte Tehmina Hammad Terry J. Ellapen Theresa Lorenzo Tonderai W. Shumba Toughieda Elloker Vic J. McKinney Victor de Andrade Wilfred Lunga Wisdom K. Mprah http://www.ajod.org� https://ajod.org� https://ajod.org� https://ajod.org/index.php/ajod/user https://ajod.org/index.php/ajod/user mailto:publishing@aosis.co.za http://www.ajod.org Open Access Page 1 of 1 Reviewer Acknowledgement Acknowledgement to reviewers In an effort to facilitate the selection of appropriate peer reviewers for the African Journal of Disability, we ask that you take a moment to update your electronic portfolio on https://ajod.org for our files, allowing us better access to your areas of interest and expertise, in order to match reviewers with submitted manuscripts.
- keywords: access; acknowledgement; african; appropriate; bell; contact; details; disability; expertise; http://www.ajod.org; https://ajod.org/index.php/ajod/user; interest; joseph; journal; mark; mary; peer; process; publication; reviewer; selection; tel; user; website
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- ajod-69
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 8149
- flesch: 49
- summary: Deaf identities in a multicultural setting: The Ugandan context In This Original Research... Open Access • Abstract • Introduction • Literature review • Multiculturalism in Uganda • Aim and research questions • Theoretical positioning • Methodology: Design and setting • Sampling procedure • Data collection • Data analysis • Ethical and validity considerations • Results and discussion • Sub-theme 1: Perceptions and construction of deaf identities in Uganda • Sub-theme 2: Experiences of deafness in a multicultural environment • Implications • Conclusion • Acknowledgements • Competing interests • Author’s contributions • Article Information Authors: Anthony Mugeere1 Peter R. Atekyereza1 Edward K. Kirumira1 Staffan Hojer2 Affiliations: 1Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Makerere University, Uganda 2Department of Social Work, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Correspondence to: Anthony Mugeere Email: amugeere@chuss.mak.ac.ug Postal address: PO Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda Dates: Received: 16 May 2013 Accepted: 27 Nov. 2014 Published: 26 May 2015 How to cite this article: Mugeere, A.B., Atekyereza, P., Kirumira, E.K. & Hojer, S., 2015, ‘Deaf identities in a multicultural setting: The Ugandan context’, African Journal of Disability 4(1), Art.
- keywords: africa; aids; american; analysis; areas; article; author; bat; breivik; cambridge; case; chava; communication; communities; community; condition; construction; countries; country; cultural; culture; data; deaf; deaf community; deaf identities; deaf people; deaf persons; deafness; disability; discourses; education; environment; ethnic; experiences; family; female; findings; finger; focus; forms; gestures; group; hearing; hiv; identities; identity; impairment; individuals; international; interviews; journal; knowledge; language; lead; lee; lives; living; married; members; men; miller; multicultural; muslim; national; people; perceptions; persons; phd; politics; press; qualitative; related; religious; research; respondents; results; sense; setting; sign; signing; social; society; spoken; studies; study; sub; themes; theoretical; theory; uganda; university; use; usl; way; woman; young
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- ajod-693
- author: None
- title: ajod-693
- date: None
- words: 9347
- flesch: 47
- summary: 1–25, Academic Press, San Diego, CA. Kromberg, J.G.R., 2018b, ‘Psychosocial and cultural aspects of albinism’, in J. Kromberg & P. Manga (eds.), Albinism in Africa, pp. Keywords: albinism; albinism in Africa; albinism in Malawi; albinism killings; children living with albinism; maternal experiences; oculocutaneous albinism; stigma and albinism.
- keywords: acceptance; africa; agi; albinism; awareness; baker; beliefs; birth; braathen; cape; catherine; cause; chichewa; child; children; chrissy; clara; clinic; colour; community; condition; creswell; cruz; cwa; data; dermatology; disability; doreen; education; effects; english; et al; experiences; eye; family; fanny; fatima; findings; friends; genetic; hcps; health; hospital; human; husband; ida; impairment; information; ingstad; inigo; international; interview; journal; knowledge; kromberg; lack; level; linesi; malawi; malawian; martha; medical; members; mothers; n.l; need; nurses; oca; parents; participants; people; perceptions; person; plwa; population; qualitative; questions; research; school; sciences; skin; social; society; south; stigma; stigmatisation; study; sun; sunscreen; support; tanzania; themes; time; town; u.k; understanding; vision; visual; white; years
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- ajod-697
- author: None
- title: ajod-697
- date: None
- words: 9512
- flesch: 36
- summary: Maart et al. (2019) implemented a survey in two communities in South Africa to demonstrate how disability experiences vary significantly between communities based on the factors such as language, culture and infrastructure. Given the range of disability experiences, it is important to explore the experiences of people with disabilities in various, and particularly under-researched communities.
- keywords: access; africa; analysis; article; aspects; attitudes; authors; barriers; bodies; body; cape; care; communities; community; complex; context; data; disabilities; disability; disabled; disadvantage; economic; effects; emotional; environment; exclusion; experiences; face; family; feelings; female; friends; global; government; grant; haegele; health; hodge; human; impairment; implications; income; interviews; journal; language; life; like; limitations; limpopo; lives; making; medical; members; model; new; old; onset; participants; participation; people; persons; physical; physical disability; position; poverty; prejudice; province; psychology; qualitative; reality; relationships; research; rights; rural; sadiki; sense; services; social; society; south; south africa; studies; study; support; swartz; time; understanding; university; use; view; watermeyer; way; ways; women; world; years; years old
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- ajod-698
- author: Office, Editorial
- title: Table of Contents Vol 8 (2019)
- date: 2019-12-19
- words: 1857
- flesch: -68
- summary: The experiences of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities in inclusive schools in Accra, Ghana Christiana Okyere, Heather M. Aldersey, Rosemary Lysaght African Journal of Disability | Vol 8 | a542 | 24 July 2019 101 110 119 126 139 149 161 168 177 Page i of iii Table of Contents i Original Research Funding and inclusion in higher education institutions for students with disabilities Desire Chiwandire, Louise Vincent African Journal of Disability | Vol 8 | a336 | 29 January 2019 Original Research Current access and recruitment practices in nursing education institutions in KwaZulu-Natal: A case study of student nurses with disabilities Selvarani Moodley, Gugu Mchunu African Journal of Disability | Vol 8 | a429 | 20 February 2019 Original Research Pastoral ministry and persons with disabilities: The case of the Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe Nomatter Sande African Journal of Disability | Vol 8 | a431 | 20 February 2019 Original Research Improvements in health-related quality of life and function in middle-aged women with chronic diseases of lifestyle after participating in a non-pharmacological intervention programme: A pragmatic randomised controlled trial Roline Y. Barnes, Jennifer Jelsma, Romy Parker African Journal of Disability | Vol 8 | a428 | 25 February 2019 Original Research ISSN: 2226-7220 (online)African Journal of Disability http://www.ajod.org Open Access Table of Contents ii Original Research A snapshot of the chalkboard writing experiences of Bachelor of Education students with visual disabilities in South Africa Roshanthni Subrayen, Rubby Dhunpath African Journal of Disability | Vol 8 | a523 | 24 July 2019 Original Research Investigation of physical and functional impairments experienced by people with active tuberculosis infection: A feasibility pilot study Heleen van Aswegen, Ronel Roos, Melanie McCree, Samantha Quinn, Mervyn Mer African Journal of Disability | Vol 8 | a515 | 13 August 2019 Original Research Disability prevalence-context matters: A descriptive community-based survey Soraya Maart, Seyi Amosun, Jennifer Jelsma African Journal of Disability | Vol 8 | a512 | 14 August 2019 Original Research A conceptual framework for designing Ambient assisted living services for individuals with disabilities in Uganda and South Africa Michael Kyazze, Janet Wesson, Kevin Naudé African Journal of Disability | Vol 8 | a477 | 26 August 2019 Original Research The experiences of parents of children living with disabilities at Lehlaba Protective Workshop in Sekhukhune district of Limpopo province Brian Tigere, Jabulani C. Makhubele African Journal of Disability | Vol 8 | a528 | 19 September 2019 Original Research Factors that relate to sport participation of adolescents with a mobility impairment Aletta M. Moll, Garfield Bester African Journal of Disability | Vol 8 | a614 | 23
- keywords: access; african; african journal; april; assistive; august; book; case; children; contents; correction; disabilities; disability; education; experiences; february; health; higher; http://www.ajod.org; iii; inclusion; journal; july; june; life; living; november; october; open; original; original research; people; persons; perspectives; rehabilitation; research; review; role; september; south; students; study; table; technology; uganda; vol; workers
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- ajod-705
- author: None
- title: ajod-705
- date: None
- words: 8022
- flesch: 43
- summary: Conclusion: A richer and more nuanced understanding of caregiver empowerment in the community and family context can inform the wider discourse on disability. Specific literature on caregiver empowerment is largely absent from the literature.
- keywords: agency; analysis; approach; article; beatrice; caregiver empowerment; caregivers; caregiving; case; cbr; cerebral; chambers; change; children; collective; common; community; data; development; different; disabilities; disability; economic; education; empowerment; facilitator; factors; families; family; ghana; group; health; home; hygiene; impact; important; individual; influence; international; interviews; issues; jacinta; journal; journey; kingdom; level; limited; lives; local; london; luttrell; medicine; model; months; mother; needs; organization; palsy; people; political; poverty; power; practice; process; programme; research; role; school; self; shakespeare; social; son; stigma; structural; studies; study; support; terms; thematic; theory; time; training; tropical; understanding; united; women; work; world; years
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- ajod-713
- author: None
- title: ajod-713
- date: None
- words: 9680
- flesch: 33
- summary: Abstract Introduction Research method and design Results Discussion Limitations of current study Conclusion Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Nadia M. Souchon Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa Esedra Krüger Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa Renata Eccles Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa Bhavani S. Pillay Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa Citation Souchon, N.M., Krüger, E., Eccles, R. & Pillay, B.S., 2020, ‘Perspectives of working-age adults with aphasia regarding social participation’, African Journal of Disability 9(0), a713. Abstract Background: Working-age adults with aphasia experience difficulties in social participation, specifically fulfilling social roles and reintegrating into communities.
- keywords: abilities; activities; adults; africa; analysis; aphasia; aphasiology; attitudes; care; communication; community; confidence; context; current; data; desire; difficulties; disability; disorders; environment; et al; everyday; experience; factors; faith; family; feelings; friends; health; home; hope; importance; improved; incident; individual; influence; interests; intervention; interview; journal; khoza; language; level; life; literature; meaningful; motivation; need; new; outcomes; participants; participation; penn; people; personal; perspectives; possible; post; pretoria; previous; pwa; qualitative; rehabilitation; relationships; research; results; return; review; role; rtw; sense; services; shangase; significant; situations; slts; social; social activities; social participation; south; specific; speech; stroke; study; successful; support; supported; therapists; therapy; time; törnbom; understanding; value; willingness; work; working; years
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- ajod-735
- author: None
- title: ajod-735
- date: None
- words: 9742
- flesch: 44
- summary: Discussion Our study illustrates the plethora of family support needs of families with children with IDD in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Abstract Background: Family support is an essential component of caring for children with intellectual or developmental disability (IDD), however, specific family support needs in developing countries, such as Ethiopia, have received minimal attention in the literature to date. Objectives: This study sought to understand the specific disability-related support needs of families with children with IDD in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- keywords: ababa; addis; african; amharic; analysis; authors; better; caregivers; cbr; centre; childcare; children; community; context; countries; data; developmental; disabilities; disability; disabled; emotional; et al; ethiopia; example; experiences; families; family; family members; family needs; family support; financial; findings; framework; future; god; government; groups; health; help; idd; important; inclusion; income; individuals; information; instrumental; intellectual; journal; kyzar; lack; life; limited; literature; members; mothers; needs; opportunities; order; organization; participants; peer; people; physical; planning; potential; qualitative; rehabilitation; research; results; self; services; significant; social; spirituality; stigma; stress; studies; study; support; support needs; transportation; turnbull; unmet; way; work; world
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- ajod-744
- author: None
- title: ajod-744
- date: None
- words: 6084
- flesch: 39
- summary: Data analysis Data analysis was structured to address our different areas of interest: Firstly, caregiver disability was examined for its association with several key demographic variables, including caregiver, child and household characteristics to establish the relationship of household disability with poverty. Method: We collected cross-sectional data using a demographic survey, the Washington Group Questions on adult disability, the 10 Questions on child disability and the Parenting Stress Index-Short Form, from 465 caregivers enrolled in a non-governmental child development programme in Kenya.
- keywords: africa; analysis; associated; association; authors; caregiver disability; caregivers; centres; child; child disability; children; collectors; context; data; demographic; department; development; disabilities; disability; disabled; disabled caregivers; disabled children; disabled member; early; economic; et al; faculty; families; family; findings; form; greater; health; higher; household; impact; income; index; intellectual; international; items; journal; kenya; level; linear; lower; member; mitra; monthly; needs; non; ownership; parental; parenting; parenting stress; people; poorer; poverty; questions; regression; relationship; research; short; social; socio; south; status; stellenbosch; stress; studies; study; support; table; university
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- ajod-747
- author: None
- title: ajod-747
- date: None
- words: 6881
- flesch: 33
- summary: Abstract Introduction Method Results Discussion Limitations Conclusion Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Janke van der Walt Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa Nicola A. Plastow Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa Marianne Unger Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and Heath Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa Citation Van der Walt, J., Plastow, N.A. & Unger, M., 2020, ‘Motor skill intervention for pre-school children: A scoping review’, African Journal of Disability 9(0), a747. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v9i0.747 Note Literature on motor skill interventions mainly focuses on treatment approaches and programmes used to address difficulties associated with DCD (Camden et al. 2014; Case-Smith, Frolek Clark & Schlabach 2013; Hillier 2007; Mandich et al. 2001; Smits-Engelsman et al. 2018).
- keywords: activity; africa; american; appendix; approach; authors; autism; available; case; children; coordination; data; database; dcd; developmental; diagnoses; difficulties; disabilities; disorder; economic; effectiveness; effects; efficacy; et al; evidence; fine; framework; fundamental; gross; group; health; high; impairment; information; input; interventions; journal; key; level; low; medicine; method; motor; motor skill; movement; november; occupational; occupational therapy; online; outcomes; pediatrics; performance; physical; positive; practice; pre; preschool; prevalence; programme; range; records; research; results; review; school; school children; sensory; services; settings; skill; skill interventions; smith; socio; south; specific; spectrum; studies; study; systematic; therapeutic; therapists; therapy; training; treatment; van; walt; years
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- ajod-75
- author: None
- title: ajod-75
- date: None
- words: 5334
- flesch: 34
- summary: The article is an integration of three papers presented at the 2011 African Network for Evidence-to-Action on Disability (AfriNEAD) Symposium: the section on disability and poverty is based on the experiences of the first author with regard to disability statistics in poor countries; the section on disability and politics is based on the third author’s experience with regard to studies on disability policy; the section on disability and indigenous knowledge is based on the second author’s experiences as a Zimbabwean activist with disability. Whilst disability policy has developed in a very positive direction, with the CRPD and its influence on other international, regional and national policies, and largely incorporating a view of disability as a human rights issue, there are problems with implementation.
- keywords: a.h; action; africa; article; authors; critical; crpd; cultural; culture; data; development; disabilities; disability; disabled; discrimination; disease; eide; evidence; global; goals; groups; health; human; implementation; important; indigenous; ingstad; key; knowledge; level; mechanisms; millennium; nations; need; negative; new; non; organization; people; persons; policies; policy; politics; poverty; practices; press; processes; relationship; report; research; rights; social; society; studies; study; traditional; united; united nations; view; world; york; zimbabwe
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- ajod-753
- author: None
- title: ajod-753
- date: None
- words: 6863
- flesch: 45
- summary: Le Roux, M., 2018, ‘There is a place in the sun for people with disabilities within the arts: Exploring how interaction with the performing arts may facilitate the social and economic inclusion of youth with disabilities’, Unpublished MPhil in disability studies thesis, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town. In offering this view of inclusion, which values community connectedness, we provide a means to inspire authentic ways of engaging with disability inclusion.
- keywords: able; access; accessible; africa; analysis; apartheid; approach; article; arts; artscape; author; cape; centre; communities; critical; data; department; development; different; disabilities; disability; disabled; economic; event; experience; exposure; focus; group; health; human; inclusion; inclusive; interview; lead; learners; life; lorenzo; march; need; new; opportunities; participants; participation; people; performance; persons; practices; process; public; qualitative; rehabilitation; research; roux; sciences; self; sense; skills; social; society; space; study; theatre; theme; town; transport; university; use; way; work; world; youth
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- ajod-76
- author: None
- title: ajod-76
- date: None
- words: 3211
- flesch: 38
- summary: An audit of disability research in the southern African region’, African Journal of Disability 3(2), Art. An audit of disability research in the southern African region In This Original Research... Open Access • Abstract • Introduction • Emancipatory research • Social model of disability •
- keywords: action; african; aim; analysis; article; audit; authors; countries; data; development; disabilities; disability; disabled; emancipatory; end; evidence; health; human; involvement; knowledge; mji; model; people; policy; process; programme; region; research; researchers; respondents; rights; safod; social; southern; stellenbosch; table; uncrpd; university; world
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- ajod-763
- author: None
- title: ajod-763
- date: None
- words: 6688
- flesch: 34
- summary: Cronbach’s alpha for the subcomponent organised activities was 0.72, for social activities and taking care of others, it was 0.75, for family life activities, it was 0.57 and for personal care and development activities, it was 0.49. This indicates that the internal consistency was adequate for the total scale and for the two subcomponents, organised activities and social activities, and taking care of others but questionable for the two subcomponents, family life activities and personal care and development activities (Terwee et al. 2007).
- keywords: activities; activity; africa; analysis; arvidsson; attendance; care; children; clinical; communication; consistency; countries; data; development; different; disabilities; disability; et al; everyday; faculty; family; frequency; granlund; health; high; huus; imms; income; institute; instrument; intellectual; internal; intervention; involvement; items; journal; jönköping; leisure; life; measure; medicine; nations; organised; participation; personal; picture; pmp; principal; properties; psychometric; research; scale; school; settings; social; south; structural; study; subcomponents; sweden; swedish; table; taiwan; total; united; university; validity; welfare
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- ajod-766
- author: None
- title: ajod-766
- date: None
- words: 8866
- flesch: 40
- summary: Disabled people and their families are concerned that triage policies may devalue disabled people and exacerbate entrenched ableism within healthcare policy and practice. The exclusion of disabled people goes against the principles established in South Africa’s Constitution, in which all people are regarded as equal, have the right to life and inherent dignity, the right to access healthcare, as well as the protection of dignity.
- keywords: 2020:1; access; addition; africa; allocation; armitage; article; authors; available; basis; benefit; cape; care; case; category; ccssa; community; context; countries; covid-19; criteria; critical; critical care; decisions; disabilities; disability; disabled; disabled people; discrimination; emergency; equal; essential; et al; example; family; government; group; guidelines; guidry; health; health care; healthcare; human; icu; important; information; issues; journal; july; june; justice; kittay; kuper; lack; life; likely; lives; majority; mckinney; medical; mulibana; national; nations; need; nellums; non; number; pandemic; people; person; policies; policy; poverty; public; research; resources; response; rights; risk; sada; savin; scarce; services; social; society; south; south africa; statistics; support; swartz; time; tool; triage; united; university; ventilators; western; wheelchair; white; workers; worth
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- ajod-767
- author: None
- title: ajod-767
- date: None
- words: 9827
- flesch: 57
- summary: It helped if AT providers were close by, if providers did on-site visits or if AT was delivered locally and people did not have to travel far. Important factors that influence AT access and use for people with ID found in this study were (1) attitudes from the community, (2) knowledge and awareness to identify AT need and (3) AT training and instructions to support the user and care network.
- keywords: 2015; access; adults; africa; assessment; assistive; available; boot; cape; care; carers; communication; community; context; data; department; different; disabilities; disability; facilities; factors; family; february; findings; follow; funding; glasses; government; group; health; hearing; help; high; important; intellectual; interviews; knowledge; lack; level; limited; living; lot; maclachlan; mckenzie; mobility; need; occupational; participants; people; person; policy; products; professionals; profound; providers; province; psychiatric; public; rehabilitation; research; resources; services; social; south; south africa; staff; stigma; study; support; technology; therapist; training; transport; university; use; user; western; work
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- ajod-77
- author: None
- title: ajod-77
- date: None
- words: 2256
- flesch: 50
- summary: Challenges for disability In This Editorial... Open Access • Abstract • The context for this posthumous contribution • Questioning research on disability and development • Researching as an interdependence entity • Owning the African research agenda • Challenging European agendas • Disability rights and research participation • References Abstract Top ↑ This article asks questions about power and partnership in disability research in Africa. Much more research on disability issues is needed for positive and effective policy development in Africa.
- keywords: africa; agenda; article; building; civil; communities; countries; data; developed; development; disability; disabled; effective; evidence; human; important; international; need; people; phiri; policy; questions; research; researchers; rights; safod; society; southern; trust; work
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- ajod-771
- author: None
- title: ajod-771
- date: None
- words: 7317
- flesch: 38
- summary: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9450.2005.00460.x Anaby, D., Law, M., Coster, W., Bedell, G., Khetani, M., Avery, L. et al., 2014, ‘The mediating role of the environment in explaining participation of children and youth with and without disabilities across home, school, and community’, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 95(5), 908–917. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2014.01.005 Arksey, H. & O’Malley, L., 2005, ‘Scoping studies: Towards a methodological framework’, International Journal of Social Research Methodology 8(1), 19–32. https://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2014-0257 Conchar, L., Bantjes, J., Swartz, L., Derman, W., 2016, ‘Barriers and facilitators to participation in physical activity: The experiences of a group of South African adolescents with cerebral palsy’, Journal of Health Psychology 21(2), 152–163. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105314523305 Cuhadar, S. & Diken, I.H., 2011, ‘Effectiveness of instruction performed through activity schedules on leisure skills of children with autism’, Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities 46(3), 386–398. Du, C., Yu, J., Zhang, J., Jiang, J., Lai, H., Liu, W. et al., 2016, ‘Relevant areas of functioning in people with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis on the international classification of functioning, disability and health: The patients’ perspective’, Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine 48(9), 806–814.
- keywords: activities; activity; adolescents; africa; analysis; article; authors; bantjes; bantjes et; barriers; care; children; communication; concept; conchar; conchar et; countries; data; disabilities; disability; environmental; et al; everyday; facilitators; factors; family; findings; frantz; frantz et; friends; granlund; hansen; health; icf; important; inclusion; income; international; journal; jönköping; lack; life; lmics; low; mcconkey; middle; nelson; participation; people; personal; physical; policy; pretoria; programme; reported; research; review; rights; schlebusch; school; shields; shields et; social; south; studies; study; support; systematic; university; welfare; world
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- ajod-773
- author: None
- title: ajod-773
- date: None
- words: 6101
- flesch: 45
- summary: Meredith, G., Packman, A. & Marks, G., 2012, ‘Stuttering, disability and the higher education sector in Australia’, International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 14(4), 370–376. https://doi.org/10.3109/17549507.2012.683809 Meredith, G. & Packman, A., 2015, ‘The experiences of university students who stutter: A quantitative and qualitative study’, Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 193, 318–319. Watermeyer, B. & Kathard, H., 2016, ‘To be or not to be: Stuttering and the human costs of being “un-disabled”’, Internal Journal Speech Language Pathology 18(1), 11–19.
- keywords: african; analysis; analytic; approach; article; author; autoethnography; bailey; bodied; boyle; bullying; butler; context; control; course; critical; cultural; design; disability; disabled; disabling; discrimination; experiences; failure; fluency; fluent; identity; individuals; isaacs; journal; kathard; language; level; life; liminal; meredith; moral; nature; negative; oppression; outcome; people; personal; pierre; prejudice; research; result; satan; school; self; situations; social; south; speech; stammering; stigma; studies; study; stutter; stuttering; techniques; therapist; therapy; time; university; watermeyer; work; year
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- ajod-776
- author: None
- title: ajod-776
- date: None
- words: 6368
- flesch: 33
- summary: In this article, we explore why the combination of UDL and inclusive education policy in South Africa has struck a chord with teachers and researchers, and we speculate as to how this synchrony can be further developed, with particular regard for how curriculum differentiation for different levels of support needs can be attained within the inclusive education system in South Africa. In a study conducted on teacher education needs, McKenzie, Kelly and Shanda (2018) found that many educators understood the support process as meaning that children with LSNs should attend regular schools, those with MSNs are best placed in full-service schools and those with high support needs in special schools.
- keywords: access; africa; approach; article; barriers; basic; children; classroom; continuum; curriculum; dalton; department; design; development; different; differentiation; disabilities; disability; diversity; education; education policy; environments; framework; guidelines; high; implementation; inclusive; inclusive education; instructional; international; journal; july; language; learners; learning; levels; means; multiple; needs; new; options; planning; policy; principles; provision; range; schools; social; south; south africa; special; specialised; specific; students; support; support needs; system; teachers; teaching; technology; training; udl; understanding; universal; universal design; use; york
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- ajod-78
- author: None
- title: ajod-78
- date: None
- words: 2546
- flesch: 26
- summary: Also, in order to promote access to higher education, disability inclusion must be fully embedded in the overall functioning of the university at all levels. Published: 04 June 2014 How to cite this article: Lyner-Cleophas, M., Swart, E., Chataika, T. & Bell, D., 2014, ‘Increasing access into higher education: Insights from the 2011 African Network on Evidence-to-Action on Disability Symposium – Education Commission’, African Journal of Disability 3(2), Art.
- keywords: access; africa; article; authors; chataika; department; disabilities; disability; ecological; education; fotim; higher; higher education; inclusion; inclusive; level; people; policy; practices; project; psychologists; range; role; south; students; support; symposium; systems; training; units; university; zimbabwe
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- ajod-790
- author: None
- title: ajod-790
- date: None
- words: 11323
- flesch: 33
- summary: The problem statement Studies focused on the TVET sector carried out in Kenya by Malle (2016), Malle, Pirttimaa and Saloviita (2015), who investigated prevailing challenges and opportunities for the participation of students with disabilities in vocational education whilst Murgor, Changa and Keter (2014) in Ethiopia explored the accessibility of TVET amongst disabled people and reported barriers to the full participation of students with disabilities in TVET but did not explore issues of student experiences. Based on student experiences, we were also interested in finding out practical ways in which TVET can expand the capabilities of students by considering the social arrangements (the institution, programmes, stakeholders and policies) to find out inclusive opportunities and unfreedom instances that were regarded as exclusions.
- keywords: 2015; academic; access; action; africa; agency; analysis; approach; article; botswana; box; boyle; capabilities; capability; challenges; college; current; data; department; development; different; disabilities; disability; disabled; disabled students; education; education policy; efa; epistemological; example; exclusion; exclusionary; experiences; focus; formal; framework; freedom; global; goal; government; higher; higher education; human; implementation; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive education; individual; institutions; intellectual; international; interviews; issues; journal; labelling; learning; lecturers; limited; literature; means; mild; mutanga; needs; new; non; nussbaum; opportunities; participants; participation; people; policies; policy; practice; press; process; programmes; qualitative; research; resources; results; sen; skills; social; society; south; special; special education; students; studies; study; support; system; teaching; technical; terms; themes; training; tvet; tvet education; understanding; unesco; university; vocational; vocational education; walton
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- ajod-792
- author: None
- title: ajod-792
- date: None
- words: 8312
- flesch: 36
- summary: Education systems and services that support the inclusive education of children with disabilities are a facilitator of the participation of such children, as it ensures not only the availability of inclusive schools but also training of educators so that an adapted curriculum is available. Abstract Introduction Research methods and design Results Discussion Conclusion Limitations Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Karina Huus Department of Nursing, School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden CHILD Research Group, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden Swedish Institute for Disability Research (SIDR), Jönköping, Sweden Refilwe Morwane Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa Maria Ramaahlo Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa Sadna Balton Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa Department of Speech Therapy and Audiology, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Soweto, South Africa Emelie Pettersson Department of Nursing, School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden CHILD Research Group, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden Swedish Institute for Disability Research (SIDR), Jönköping, Sweden Ingalill Gimbler Berglund Department of Nursing, School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden CHILD Research Group, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden Swedish Institute for Disability Research (SIDR), Jönköping, Sweden Shakila Dada Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa Citation Huus, K., Morwane, R., Ramaahlo, M., Balton, S., Pettersson, E., Gimbler Berglund, I. et al., 2021, ‘Voices of children with intellectual disabilities on participation in daily activities’, African Journal of Disability 10(0), a792.
- keywords: able; activities; activity; africa; analysis; barriers; capability; care; caregivers; children; communication; content; countries; dada; daily; data; disabilities; disability; education; et al; everyday; exclusion; facilitators; family; functioning; granlund; health; high; huus; imms; important; income; intellectual; intellectual disabilities; interviews; journal; jönköping; lack; life; members; needs; parents; participation; people; personal; physical; pmp; pretoria; programmes; proxy; qualitative; questions; ratings; rehabilitation; research; resources; review; rights; satisfaction; school; self; shields; social; south; studies; study; sweden; university
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- ajod-796
- author: None
- title: ajod-796
- date: None
- words: 6937
- flesch: 45
- summary: This population has been grossly neglected in previous child anxiety research, and despite limited results our study provides an insight into how traditional CBT interventions can be adapted for use with this group. Thus, continued research in the area of anxiety intervention and prevention for this population should be promoted.
- keywords: adolescent; africa; age; analysis; anxiety; anxiety intervention; assessment; behaviour; blind; cbt; childhood; children; clinical; cognitive; data; department; depression; development; dig; disorders; effects; et al; follow; friends; girls; group; health; iig; immediate; impairments; intervention; item; journal; line; loxton; mean; measures; mental; n =; non; pam; participants; post; present; prevention; programme; pswq; psychiatry; psychology; questionnaire; rcads-30; reminder; research; results; risk; scale; school; score; sessions; significant; silverman; social; south; stallard; stellenbosch; study; symptoms; therapy; time; total; university; visagie; visual; visual impairments; w.k; worry; younger
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- ajod-799
- author: None
- title: ajod-799
- date: None
- words: 9138
- flesch: 43
- summary: Abstract Introduction Research methodology Results Summary of findings Conclusion Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Matthews M. Makwela † Department of Social Work, Faculty of Health Sciences, North-West University, Mmabatho, South Africa Elizabeth I. Smit Department of Social Work, Faculty of Health Sciences, North-West University, Mmabatho, South Africa Citation Makwela, M.M. & Smit, E.I., 2022, ‘Psychosocial challenges of children with disabilities in Sekhukhune District, Limpopo province of South Africa: Towards a responsive integrated disability strategy’, African Journal of Disability 11(0), a799. This approach was oriented towards exploring the phenomenon of child disability intensively to provide a detailed description of the psychosocial challenges experienced by CWD in Sekhukhune.
- keywords: access; acpf; activities; africa; analysis; authors; babbie; barriers; care; caregivers; challenges; children; community; cwd; data; department; development; disabilities; disability; discrimination; district; ecological; edn; education; environment; experienced; facilities; factors; findings; functioning; fund; government; health; human; inclusive; individual; inds; information; integrated; international; key; lack; limpopo; living; london; mainstream; medical; methodology; methods; national; nations; needs; new; parents; participants; participation; people; persons; perspective; policies; policy; poor; poverty; practice; pretoria; protection; province; provisions; psychosocial; qualitative; related; research; resources; rights; rural; sampling; school; sekhukhune; services; social; societal; society; south; south africa; special; specific; stigma; strategy; study; support; theme; unicef; united; university; work; worker
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- ajod-80
- author: None
- title: ajod-80
- date: None
- words: 8873
- flesch: 51
- summary: Pain and depression Pain was a prominent factor in the lives of many SCI patients regardless of their level of injury and 77% of individuals with SCI complained about pain (Levy et al. 1998:217). During the period 1988–1994, mortality as a result of SCI dropped and half of SCI patients who went through the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, were surviving beyond one year (Levy et al. 1998:217).
- keywords: access; appropriate; areas; care; cause; challenges; complications; cord; cord injury; countries; daily; data; death; devivo; difficult; disabilities; disability; economic; et al; expectancy; families; family; female; financial; findings; health; high; higher; home; hospital; income; income countries; individuals; infections; informants; injuries; injury; krause; lack; leading; levy; levy et; life; limited; literature; living; low; low income; major; male; medical; medicine; mortality; pain; people; persons; poverty; pressure; pressure sores; problems; professionals; qualitative; rehabilitation; research; risk; road; rural; sci; services; settings; situation; society; sores; spinal; spinal cord; stigma; studies; study; support; tract; urinary; wheelchairs; world; wyndaele; year; zimbabwe
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- ajod-800
- author: None
- title: ajod-800
- date: None
- words: 6349
- flesch: 38
- summary: Deaf women face communication barriers when interacting with hearing healthcare professionals, which, in turn, results in inadequate service delivery and poor access to much needed services. Aarons and Akach (2002) acknowledged that in South Africa, deaf women are a minority and are marginalised, with black women being the most marginalised of all.
- keywords: access; accessibility; africa; attitudes; availability; barriers; black; black deaf; cape; challenges; chapple; communication; community; data; deaf; deaf people; deaf women; deafness; department; disabilities; disability; education; et al; exclusion; experiences; facilities; gender; healthcare; healthcare professionals; healthcare services; hearing; hoh; human; information; interpreter; interviews; johannesburg; journal; kritzinger; language; marginalised; masuku; moroe; motsohi; need; new; order; orrie; participants; people; persons; press; professionals; public; qualitative; report; research; rights; sample; sasl; services; sign; social; south; south africa; studies; study; town; university; use; vergunst; witwatersrand; women; work; world; young
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- ajod-801
- author: None
- title: ajod-801
- date: None
- words: 9475
- flesch: 48
- summary: Abstract Background: Stroke survivors often experience permanent or temporal physical and psychological stroke impairments. As a result, stroke survivors are often discharged to recover in their home environments and are cared for mostly by family members.
- keywords: activities; addition; affective; african; analysis; article; barriers; burden; campbell; cape; care; caregivers; caregiving; children; codes; communication; community; data; day; difficulties; dimensions; emotional; environment; et al; experiences; factors; families; family; family functioning; family members; family relationships; female; financial; findings; following; functioning; gillespie; health; impact; incident; influence; information; international; interviews; involvement; journal; kumar; life; living; mcmaster; model; needs; new; nursing; old; parents; participants; partners; patterns; person; physical; post; process; qualitative; quality; rehabilitation; relationships; research; responsibilities; responsiveness; result; rhoda; roles; sciences; social; south; spouses; stroke; stroke family; stroke survivor; studies; study; support; survivor; themes; time; western; work; years
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- ajod-807
- author: None
- title: ajod-807
- date: None
- words: 9904
- flesch: 47
- summary: In order to achieve this goal, teacher training for primary school teachers becomes paramount. Keywords: dyslexia; reading; dyslexic learner; reading instruction; teacher knowledge.
- keywords: ability; able; adequate; africa; analysis; article; association; authors; awareness; challenges; children; classrooms; context; countries; data; department; developed; development; difficulties; disabilities; disorder; dyslexia; dyslexia association; dyslexia training; early; education; ended; example; experience; findings; grade; help; implementation; important; inclusive; inclusive education; international; international dyslexia; interventions; journal; knight; knowledge; language; learners; learning; letters; level; limited; literature; march; methods; needs; open; participants; policy; pretoria; primary; quantitative; question; reading; research; researchers; responses; results; school; school teachers; service; skills; solutions; south; south africa; special; specific; studies; study; support; teachers; teaching; technology; training; tshwane; understanding; university; view; words; years
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- ajod-811
- author: None
- title: ajod-811
- date: None
- words: 6371
- flesch: 34
- summary: Results: The findings indicated that ASD adolescents have interaction types that influence intervention to various degrees. The research study has shown that ASD studies are focused on young children, excluding adolescents and adults: and it is understudied in the context of South Africa.
- keywords: able; adolescents; adults; africa; analysis; asd; autism; behaviour; breakdowns; case; challenges; children; communication; communication breakdowns; communication strategies; consultations; data; design; different; disorder; effective; experienced; findings; health; health professionals; healthcare; individuals; information; interactional; interactional styles; interviews; journal; knowledge; language; life; methods; neuro; parents; participants; partners; patients; physiotherapist; poor; practitioners; professionals; qualitative; questions; repair; research; respective; results; school; sessions; skills; social; south; spectrum; speech; strategies; studies; study; styles; support; therapy; training; treatment; use; verbal
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- ajod-812
- author: None
- title: ajod-812
- date: None
- words: 234
- flesch: 38
- summary: The life stories and experiences of the children admitted to the Institute for Imbecile Children from 1895 to 1913’, African Journal of Disability 10(0), a812. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v10i0.812 Note: DOI of original article published: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v9i0.669 Correction Erratum: In the version of this article initially published, Du Plessis, R., 2020, ‘The life stories and experiences of the children admitted to the Institute for Imbecile Children from 1895 to 1913’, African Journal of Disability 9(0), a669.
- keywords: children; plessis; pretoria
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- ajod-821
- author: Office, Editorial
- title: Acknowledgement to reviewers
- date: 2020-12-15
- words: 439
- flesch: 34
- summary: It is good practice as a reviewer to update your personal details regularly to ensure contact with you throughout your professional term as reviewer to African Journal of Disability. http://www.ajod.org Open Access Page 1 of 1 Reviewer Acknowledgement Acknowledgement to reviewers In an effort to facilitate the selection of appropriate peer reviewers for the African Journal of Disability, we ask that you take a moment to update your electronic portfolio on https://ajod.org for our files, allowing us better access to your areas of interest and expertise, in order to match reviewers with submitted manuscripts.
- keywords: access; acknowledgement; african; details; disability; https://ajod.org/index.php/ajod/user; journal; peer; process; publication; reviewer; selection; tel; user; website
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- ajod-827
- author: None
- title: ajod-827
- date: None
- words: 8181
- flesch: 37
- summary: In disability studies more generally, there is increasing discussion of questions of Africanisation and decolonisation of knowledges (Mbazzi et al. 2020; Mji 2019; Owusu-Ansah & Mji 2013), but there has been less discussion of this in ID and family research. In the current review, we examine the experiences of caregivers and parents of children with ID in Africa using the socio-ecological model (Bronfenbrenner 1992) in order to identify potential targets for change in the provision of ID services in Africa across various systems.
- keywords: access; addition; africa; aldersey; analysis; articles; authors; beliefs; biomedical; bronfenbrenner; caregivers; caring; causes; challenges; children; communities; concerns; context; countries; criteria; cultural; data; developmental; difficulties; disabilities; disability; education; et al; experiences; families; family; findings; future; gona; health; important; inclusion; income; individuals; intellectual; intellectual disability; journal; lack; levels; literature; masulani; members; mental; methods; mothers; mwale; need; negative; number; parents; participants; people; pwid; qualitative; raising; reported; research; resources; results; review; services; social; south; specialised; spiritual; stellenbosch; stigma; stress; studies; study; support; swartz; systems; terms; themes; tilahun; treatment; understanding; university; work
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- ajod-833
- author: None
- title: ajod-833
- date: None
- words: 8097
- flesch: 30
- summary: Khoo, S.L., Tiun, L.T. & Lee, L.W., 2013, ‘Unseen challenges, unheard voices, unspoken desires: Experiences of employment by Malaysians with physical disabilities’, Kajian Malaysia 31(1), 37–55. Lamichhane, K., 2012, ‘Employment situation and life changes for people with disabilities: Evidence from Nepal’, Disability & Society 27(4), 471–485. The voices of persons with disabilities’, International Journal on Disability and Human Development 16(1), 77–87. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijdhd-2015-0029 Opoku, M.P., Mprah, W.K., Mckenzie, J., Sakah, B.N. & Badu, E., 2017, ‘Lives of persons with disabilities in Cameroon after CRPD: Voices of persons with disabilities in the Buea Municipality in Cameroon’, International Journal on Disability and Human Development 16(1), 67–75. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijdhd-2016-0009 Padkapayeva, K., Posen, A., Yazdani, A., Buettgen, A., Mahood, Q. & Tompa, E., 2017, ‘Workplace accommodations for persons with physical disabilities: Evidence synthesis of the peer-reviewed literature’, Disability and Rehabilitation 39(21), 2134–2147.
- keywords: 2015; abdullah; access; africa; amin; analysis; authors; bank; barriers; bengisu; body; challenges; classification; context; countries; cramm; data; development; disabilities; disability; domain; economic; education; employers; employment; environment; et al; facilitators; factors; findings; framework; functioning; health; icf; income; individual; information; international; journal; labour; lack; level; literature; lmics; lowand; middle; mitra; nations; opportunities; participation; people; personal; persons; physical; poor; pretoria; programmes; rehabilitation; report; research; results; review; santos; search; services; skills; social; south; strategy; studies; study; support; systematic; table; united; visual; vocational; women; work; world
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- ajod-837
- author: None
- title: ajod-837
- date: None
- words: 9695
- flesch: 45
- summary: Studies from other settings in South Africa revealed that socio-cultural conceptions of intellectual disability may also influence the family and community responses to sexual victimisation of people with intellectual disabilities which have been elucidated earlier (Hanass-Hancock et al. 2018; Meer & Combrinck 2015). https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2017/20160318 Hanass-Hancock, J., Nene, S., Johns, R. & Chappell, P., 2018, ‘The impact of contextual factors on comprehensive sexuality education for learners with intellectual disabilities in South Africa’, Sexuality and Disability 36(2), 123–140. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11195-018-9526-z Hollomotz, A., 2018, ‘Successful interviews with people with intellectual disability’, Qualitative Research 18(2), 153–170.
- keywords: abuse; adults; africa; afrikaans; approach; assault; awareness; cape; characters; collection; community; consent; data; disability; discussions; ecological; education; english; example; experiences; facilities; factors; family; female; fg3; fg5; findings; focus; group; help; high; information; informed; intellectual; intellectual disabilities; interventions; journal; knowledge; lack; literature; man; members; need; nyokangi; parents; participants; people; perceptions; phasha; pictures; prevention; process; programmes; relationships; report; research; researchers; responses; review; risk; school; sessions; setting; sexual; sexual abuse; sexual violence; sexuality; social; south; study; support; themes; touch; town; understanding; violence; women
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- ajod-838
- author: Office, Editorial
- title: Table of Contents Vol 9 (2020)
- date: 2020-12-23
- words: 1073
- flesch: -5
- summary: A case of a sheltered workshop in Bloemfontein, South Africa Nokuthula Tinta, Hester Steyn, Jana Vermaas African Journal of Disability | Vol 9 | a662 | 31 August 2020 83 95 103 112 121 131 144 155 165 Page i of ii Table of Contents i Opinion Paper COVID-19, disability and the context of healthcare triage in South Africa: Notes in a time of pandemic Emma L. McKinney, Victor McKinney, Leslie Swartz African Journal of Disability | Vol 9 | a766 | 18 August 2020 Review Article Motor skill intervention for pre-school children: A scoping review Janke van der Walt, Nicola A. Plastow, Marianne Unger African Journal of Disability | Vol 9 | a747 | 10 December 2020 Review Article Universal design for learning in inclusive education policy in South Africa Judith A. McKenzie, Elizabeth M. Dalton African Journal of Disability | Vol 9 | a776 | 15 December 2020 Original Research Learning support strategies for learners with neurodevelopmental disorders: Perspectives of recently qualified teachers Amarachi J. Yoro, Jean V. Fourie, Martyn van der Merwe African Journal of Disability | Vol 9 | a561 | 06 February 2020 Original Research The development of education for learners with diverse learning needs in the South African context: A bio-ecological systems analysis Suegnet Smit, Lynn D. Preston, Johnnie Hay African Journal of Disability | Vol 9 | a670 | 10 February 2020 Original Research Being differently abled: Disability through the lens of hierarchy of binaries and Bitso-lebe-ke Seromo Paul L. Leshota, Maximus M. Sefotho African Journal of Disability | Vol 9 | a643 | 25 February 2020 Original Research
- keywords: access; african; african journal; august; children; contents; december; disabilities; disability; education; february; girls; http://www.ajod.org; journal; july; learning; mckinney; november; open; original; original research; people; research; review; south; table; van; vol
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- ajod-847
- author: None
- title: ajod-847
- date: None
- words: 5095
- flesch: 45
- summary: This means that we possibly have many children with other neurodevelopmental disorders; other children showing autistic traits, especially those with mild and moderate symptoms, may not be in the educational setting. Amina Abubakar Neurosciences Research Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, KEMRI-Welcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya Institute for Human Development, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Joseph K. Gona Neurosciences Research Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, KEMRI-Welcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya Patricia Kipkemoi Neurosciences Research Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, KEMRI-Welcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya Kenneth Rimba Neurosciences Research Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, KEMRI-Welcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya Dennis Amukambwa Neurosciences Research Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, KEMRI-Welcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya Charles R.J.C. Newton Neurosciences Research Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, KEMRI-Welcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Citation Abubakar, A., Gona, J.K., Kipkemoi, P., Rimba, K., Amukambwa, D. & Newton, C.R.J.C., 2022, ‘Perspectives of key stakeholders on educational experiences of children with autism spectrum disorders at the Kenyan Coast’, African Journal of Disability 11(0), a847.
- keywords: abubakar; analysis; asd; autism; centre; challenges; children; clinical; coast; collection; context; data; developmental; diagnosis; disabilities; discussion; disorders; early; educational; et al; experiences; fgds; geographic; group; health; identification; interview; journal; kemri; kenya; key; kilifi; lack; male; medicine; need; neurodevelopmental; neurosciences; newton; participants; placement; programme; questions; research; results; review; schools; special; spectrum; stakeholders; study; support; systematic; teachers; time; training; trust; use; welcome; years
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- ajod-849
- author: None
- title: ajod-849
- date: None
- words: 5645
- flesch: 39
- summary: The research findings allow for a greater understanding of the context in which students with disabilities experience school violence in Zambia, which is essential for the development of intervention methods. Abstract Introduction Methodology Findings Discussion Conclusion Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Janet Njelesani Department of Occupational Therapy, New York University, New York, United States of America Jessica Si Department of Occupational Therapy, New York University, New York, United States of America Drake Swarm Department of Occupational Therapy, New York University, New York, United States of America Citation Njelesani, J., Si, J. & Swarm, D., 2022, ‘Unreported and unaddressed: Students with disabilities experience of school violence in Zambia’, African Journal of Disability 11(0), a849. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v11i0.849 Original Research Unreported and unaddressed: Students with disabilities experience of school violence in Zambia Janet Njelesani, Jessica Si, Drake Swarm Received: 28 Jan. 2021; Accepted: 04 Feb. 2022; Published: 30 Mar. 2022 Copyright:
- keywords: analysis; article; authors; boys; bullying; children; collection; corporal; cultural; data; disabilities; disability; disabled; ecological; education; experiences; female; findings; friendly; greater; inclusive; international; interventions; journal; level; low; lusaka; mainstream; male; march; methods; model; new; njelesani; non; occupational; parents; participants; peers; physical; policies; provinces; punishment; qualitative; reported; research; rights; risk; safe; safety; school; school violence; social; students; studies; study; support; teachers; team; themes; united; violence; york; youth; zambia
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- ajod-85
- author: None
- title: ajod-85
- date: None
- words: 8611
- flesch: 53
- summary: His is therefore a conscious attempt to deny the violence that is normally associated with Zulu masculinity. The club of hegemonic masculinity • Disability and hegemonic masculinity • Spring will come •
- keywords: ableist; africa; apartheid; article; author; autobiography; black; bodies; bodily; body; book; car; connell; control; core; couser; creativity; cultural; diminished; disabilities; disability; disabled; dominant; driving; early; economic; eds; emphasis; expression; form; gender; genre; gershick; hegemonic; hegemonic masculinity; hospital; ideal; independence; introduction; language; life; like; loss; love; male; man; masculine; masculinities; masculinity; memoir; men; miller; mobility; model; morrell; musa; musa zulu; narrative; narrator; need; new; paralysed; particular; passage; penis; people; performance; person; physical; position; press; race; reader; relationship; reliance; self; sense; sexual; social; society; south; spring; texts; university; values; way; william; william zulu; writing; zulu
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- ajod-850
- author: None
- title: ajod-850
- date: None
- words: 9180
- flesch: 46
- summary: Community development projects According to Westoby (2014), community development projects (CDPs) aim to improve the social, environmental, and economic situation of people especially in rural communities. Disability friendly community development projects Westoby (2014) is of the view that CDPs are aimed at improving communities by planning and executing developmental programmes.
- keywords: able; access; accessibility; activities; africa; agriculture; approach; beds; beer; benefits; bodied; case; cdps; cohesion; communities; community; community development; community garden; control; data; decision; design; development; different; disabilities; disability; economic; education; employment; face; female; financial; findings; focus; following; food; garden; gardening; grant; group; impact; important; inclusive; income; interviews; issues; key; knowledge; land; limpopo; livelihoods; living; local; making; management; members; model; ownership; participants; participation; people; persons; poverty; process; produce; project; province; qualitative; research; researchers; results; rights; rural; social; society; source; south; south africa; strategy; study; sustainability; sustainable; swanepoel; terms; university; way; work; years
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- ajod-86
- author: None
- title: ajod-86
- date: None
- words: 3460
- flesch: 29
- summary: • Inclusion of disability issues in the curriculum across disciplines in higher education, including training all future professionals, policy makers and researchers in disability issues so that they can include disability at all levels, including the classroom. Health, HIV and AIDS and community-based rehabilitation The following three recommendations were made with regard to this theme: • Building a critical mass within mainstream society on disability issues, including mainstream human rights organisations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
- keywords: access; action; activities; address; africa; afrinead; afrinead symposium; aids; authors; children; community; consortium; countries; development; dialogue; disabilities; disability; disabled; education; evidence; government; health; holistic; issues; journal; key; knowledge; mji; need; network; people; persons; policy; practice; recommendations; rehabilitation; research; researchers; rights; society; stakeholders; symposium; systems; themes; uncrpd; utilisation
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- ajod-862
- author: None
- title: ajod-862
- date: None
- words: 11371
- flesch: 30
- summary: Darcy et al. (2020) blazed a trail in the transformation of disability tourism from a niche, specialised or small market to an accessible, mature tourism market because: The Global North has more ageing tourists with adequate financial resources, supported with time to participate in tourism with more extended stays and spending, and they often travel with more than two people. Accessible tourism is the same as disability tourism and inclusive tourism, which implies the access needs of all people with a desire to participate in tourism regardless of the presence or absence of impairment.
- keywords: 2006; accessibility; accessible tourism; accommodation; africa; african tourism; ageing; analysis; approach; areas; article; australia; authors; buhalis; chikuta; community; composite; concept; conditions; context; countries; current; darcy; data; demand; department; design; development; disabilities; disability; disability inclusion; disability studies; disability tourism; disabled; disabled people; distribution; economic; education; europe; experiences; extant; findings; future; gap; general; general tourism; global; growth; hand; health; hospitality; hotel; impairments; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive tourism; individual; industry; information; interest; international; issues; journal; knowledge; leisure; limited; literature; makuyana; market; needs; north; paper; participation; people; persons; perspective; plessis; practices; production; products; report; research; researchers; results; review; said; services; silence; skills; social; south; south africa; studies; study; table; technological; themes; tourism; tourism demand; tourism education; tourism growth; tourism industry; tourism management; tourism market; tourism products; tourism research; tourism supply; tourists; travability; travel; understanding; united; universal; university; value; work; world; year
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- ajod-867
- author: None
- title: ajod-867
- date: None
- words: 7486
- flesch: 35
- summary: Our findings echo a number of past qualitative studies on the experience of individuals with disabilities, many of which contain reports of discontent with the state of disability services, including in terms of health care (Ganle et al. 2016; Rugoho & Maphosa 2017; WHO 2011; Zuurmond et al. 2019). The prevalence rate of self-reported disability is 7.5% in South Africa, of which 2.5% of them report physical disability (Lehohla 2011).
- keywords: 2017; access; accessible; accident; africa; analysis; article; bellville; clinics; community; course; data; department; design; desire; difficulties; disabilities; disability; disabled; experience; facilities; faculty; functioning; global; health; health care; healthcare; home; hunt; impairment; important; inclusion; independent; information; informed; injury; institute; intervention; interview; isixhosa; journal; lack; language; life; lived; medicine; need; number; opportunities; participants; participation; people; physical; physical disabilities; planning; population; post; priorities; priority; professionals; programme; programming; qualitative; rehabilitation; reproductive; research; researchers; results; road; sciences; self; services; sexual; sexuality; sherry; social; south; south africa; study; support; themes; time; traffic; university; users; women; work
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- ajod-875
- author: None
- title: ajod-875
- date: None
- words: 10504
- flesch: 43
- summary: Opoku, M.P., Agbenyega, J.-F., Mprah, W.K., Mckenzie, J. & Badu, E., 2017, ‘Decade of inclusive education in Ghana: Perspectives of educators’, Journal of Social Inclusion 8(1), 4–20. https://doi.org/10.36251/josi.114 Opoku, M.P., Badu, E., Amponteng, M. & Agyei-Okyere, E., 2015, ‘Inclusive education at the crossroads in Ashanti and Brong Ahafo regions in Ghana: Target not achievable by 2015’, Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development 26(1), 63–78. Abstract Introduction Study context Theoretical framework Method Results Discussion Study limitations Conclusion and recommendations Acknowledgements References Appendix 1 About the Author(s) Maxwell P. Opoku Special Education Department, College of Education, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia Citation Opoku, M.P., 2022, ‘Special educators’ intentions towards supporting practice of inclusive education for students with disabilities in secondary schools in Ghana’, African Journal of Disability 11(0), a875. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v11i0.875 Original Research Special educators’ intentions towards supporting practice of inclusive education for students with disabilities in secondary schools in Ghana Maxwell P. Opoku Received: 06 Apr. 2021; Accepted: 06 Feb. 2022; Published: 31 Mar. 2022 Copyright:
- keywords: access; activities; ajzen; attitudes; author; behaviour; beliefs; children; classroom; data; development; disabilities; duties; education; educators; efficacy; et al; female; framework; funds; ghana; government; implementation; inclusion; inclusive education; intentions; international; interviews; journal; lack; leaders; learning; limited; literature; m.p; materials; money; necessary; needs; norms; opoku; opoku et; parents; participants; participation; persons; policy; practices; practising; primary; principals; regular; research; resources; schools; secondary; secondary schools; self; services; sharma; skills; society; special; special educators; stakeholders; students; studies; study; subjective; support; tas; teachers; teaching; time; training; work; working
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- ajod-877
- author: None
- title: ajod-877
- date: None
- words: 6524
- flesch: 45
- summary: Genetics of oculocutaneous albinism and genetic counselling Oculocutaneous albinism is inherited as an autosomal recessive condition, and therefore it is advisable for every family with a member with albinism to have genetic counselling. In southern Africa albinism is common, about 1 in 4000 people are affected, but it remains a poorly understood condition surrounded by myths and superstition.
- keywords: academic; affected; africa; albinism; article; aspects; associated; attitudes; background; beale; birth; black; cancer; care; carriers; challenges; child; children; clarke; clinical; common; community; condition; counselling; cultural; diego; disability; discrimination; eds; elsevier; epidemiology; eyes; genetic; geographic; hair; health; historical; human; individuals; information; issues; j.g.r; jenkins; journal; kromberg; life; living; low; manga; medical; mother; mutation; myth; oca; oculocutaneous; oculocutaneous albinism; pale; parents; people; person; physical; population; press; prevalence; psychosocial; quality; rates; research; rights; risk; san; skin; south; southern; studies; study; sun; type; university; vision; white
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- ajod-881
- author: None
- title: ajod-881
- date: None
- words: 5196
- flesch: 41
- summary: https://doi.org/10.7861/futurehosp.3-2-114 Dejong, G. & Groah, S.L., 2015, ‘Advancing SCI health care to avert rehospitalization’, The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine 38(6), 697–699. https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.2013.97 Maart, S. & Jelsma, J., 2014, ‘Disability and access to health care – A community based descriptive study’, Disability and Rehabilitation 36(18), 1489–1493.
- keywords: access; africa; analysis; approach; authors; care; care model; chronic; community; conditions; cord; data; development; disability; discussions; et al; family; focus; framework; group; health; health conditions; health professionals; healthcare; home; hospital; importance; injury; interventions; journal; life; management; model; need; outcomes; participant; patient; people; policy; pressure; prevention; prevention care; primary; professionals; promotion; qualitative; rehabilitation; research; resources; sci; secondary; secondary health; services; shcs; skills; south; spinal; spinal cord; study; support; system; themes; thinking; training; world
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- ajod-882
- author: None
- title: ajod-882
- date: None
- words: 8585
- flesch: 42
- summary: Marx, G., 2015, ‘Employee wellness strategy employee wellness’, SA Board of Persons Practices (SABPP)’ Management development A common need identified by most participants was the need for managers to receive disability training, not limited to sensitisation but also on reasonable accommodation.
- keywords: accommodation; africa; available; challenges; commission; common; data; department; development; different; dimensions; disabilities; disability; disabled; dol; dsd; education; emotional; employees; employment; equity; etd; ewds; experiences; findings; following; framework; government; health; hettler; holistic; human; impact; intellectual; international; labour; lack; levels; life; limited; management; managers; model; national; nations; need; new; niekerk; occupational; opportunities; organisation; participant; people; persons; physical; policy; pretoria; printer; process; pwds; reasonable; republic; research; rights; role; rsa; services; skills; social; society; south; south africa; specific; spiritual; study; support; training; transport; united; van; way; wellness; wellness dimensions; wellness framework; workplace; york
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- ajod-886
- author: None
- title: ajod-886
- date: None
- words: 7069
- flesch: 47
- summary: Abstract Introduction Research methods and design Findings Discussion Implications Limitations Conclusion Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Lior Blumenthal Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa Maximus M. Sefotho Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa Citation Blumenthal, L. & Sefotho, M.M., 2022, ‘The effects of cognitive effort on academic performance of learners with cochlear implants in a private mainstream school in Gauteng’, African Journal of Disability 11(0), a886. The effects of cognitive effort on academic performance of learners with cochlear implants in a private mainstream school in Gauteng Lior Blumenthal, Maximus M. Sefotho Received: 20 Apr. 2021; Accepted: 09 June 2022;
- keywords: academic; additional; africa; analysis; article; attention; auditory; braun; challenges; children; class; classroom; cochlear; cochlear implants; cognitive; cognitive effort; concentration; data; deaf; decode; design; development; education; effort; energy; et al; experiences; fatigue; focus; framework; functioning; harder; health; hearing; impacts; impaired; information; international; interviews; johannesburg; journal; learners; lesson; levels; listening; mainstream; mainstream schools; methods; need; order; participants; peers; phenomenological; phenomenology; potential; qualitative; recipients; research; researchers; schools; south; spoken; studies; study; support; teachers; technology; themes; theoretical; tired; understanding
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- ajod-889
- author: None
- title: ajod-889
- date: None
- words: 6315
- flesch: 39
- summary: With knowledge and experience of working in public healthcare rehabilitation practices the researchers decided to choose a simple and easy to use reflection process, as found in Kolb’s experiential learning style theory (Kolb 1984). The consequences of these were wide-ranging: affecting service users, their families and caregivers, rehabilitation practices and practitioners as well as the integrity and sustainability of rehabilitation systems.
- keywords: action; africa; analysis; authors; biljon; clear; clinical; clinicians; collection; communication; concerns; confusion; consequences; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; data; disability; disaster; disorder; evidence; experience; facilities; fatigue; feeling; field; findings; form; gauteng; guide; healthcare; hpcsa; impact; information; journal; leadership; learning; management; march; multidisciplinary; need; notes; occupational; opportunity; pandemic; participants; patients; people; personal; policies; practice; practitioners; professional; project; public; public healthcare; reflections; reflective; rehabilitation; rehabilitation clinicians; rehabilitation services; research; researchers; role; services; situation; south; speech; stellenbosch; strategies; study; system; teams; themes; therapists; therapy; time; university; users; van; virus; vulnerable; work; world
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- ajod-89
- author: None
- title: ajod-89
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- words: 5461
- flesch: 37
- summary: Nonetheless, we hope that the willingness of our own consortium to engage in this reflexive analysis will encourage other research teams to undertake similar ‘learning from doing’ assessments, and by doing this, help to identify good practices that would help research partnerships to achieve their aims. This article reports on the content, context, process and impact of project EquitAble, funded by the European Commission Seventh Research Framework Programme, which brought together researchers from Ireland, Norway, South Africa, Namibia, Sudan and Malawi.
- keywords: access; africa; analyses; appendix; article; authors; college; comments; commission; consortium; content; countries; country; data; development; different; disabilities; dublin; equitable; european; framework; funding; future; health; impact; issues; maclachlan; malawi; mannan; meetings; members; namibia; north; organisations; participants; particular; partners; people; persons; policy; process; project; proposal; publication; quantitative; questionnaire; research; researchers; respondents; social; society; south; sudan; team; trinity; university; vulnerable; work; working; wps; writing
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- ajod-890
- author: None
- title: ajod-890
- date: None
- words: 11886
- flesch: 45
- summary: Introduction It is estimated that globally 65 million people live with limb amputations, and 1.5 million people undergo amputations every year, with 40% being upper limb amputations (Lao et al. 2020). In low resource settings, traumatic experiences such as road accidents and conflicts (war, civil conflicts) are common causes of upper limb amputation, as are poor access to acute medical care (Commission on the Social Determinants of Health 2008; Kenney et al. 2019).
- keywords: able; ableism; absence; access; activities; african; amputation; amputee; analysis; approach; atim; batte; campbell; care; category; challenges; children; committee; community; countries; cultural; data; day; department; design; development; different; disabilities; disability; disabled; discrimination; employment; environment; et al; example; experiences; family; friends; hand; hard; health; help; impact; important; information; international; interviews; journal; kampala; kenney; kingdom; lack; life; limb; limb absence; limb amputation; limb loss; literature; lived; living; london; look; loss; lower; lower limb; matovu; mbabazi; members; mind; musinguzi; nabirye; nations; need; participants; participation; people; persons; phase; policy; positive; prosthesis; psychological; public; pwds; pwula; qualitative; recommendations; region; rehabilitation; relationships; report; research; review; rights; school; sciences; services; settings; social; society; stigma; studies; study; support; team; thematic; theme; time; uganda; united; university; upper; upper limb; use; ways; work; world
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- ajod-897
- author: None
- title: ajod-897
- date: None
- words: 8100
- flesch: 30
- summary: https://doi.org/10.3109/13668250.2010.525869 Etieyibo, E. & Omiegbe, O., 2016, ‘Religion, culture, and discrimination against persons with disabilities in Nigeria’, African journal of disability 5(1), 192. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v5i1.192 Farnworth, C.R., Badstue, L., Williams, G.J., Tegbaru, A. & Gaya, H.I.M., 2020, ‘Unequal partners: Associations between power, agency and benefits among women and men maize farmers in Nigeria’, Gender, Technology and Development 24(3), 271–296. Grameen Foundation, 2014, Poverty probability index, viewed 07 May 2019, from https://www.povertyindex.org/free-tools. Groce, N., Kett, M., Lang, R. & Trani, J.F., 2011, ‘Disability and poverty: The need for a more nuanced understanding of implications for development policy and practice’, Third World Quarterly 32(8), 1493–1513. Thomas, C., 2007, Sociologies of disability and illness: Contested ideas in disability studies and medical sociology, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.
- keywords: access; activities; african; agricultural; agricultural activities; article; assets; assistance; authors; available; bank; bauchi; caregivers; communities; community; country; data; decision; development; dfid; disabilities; disability; discrimination; e.g.; economic; education; employment; evidence; example; experiences; family; farmers; farming; female; financial; findings; formal; gender; health; household; important; inclusion; information; intellectual; international; journal; karfi; leadership; level; limited; literature; living; mai; main; making; male; members; mukhtar; nigeria; norms; northern; northern nigeria; ogunlela; ojiako; opportunities; palladium; participants; participation; people; persons; poor; poverty; propcom; questionnaire; questions; related; research; role; rural; sample; sango; sector; services; social; states; study; support; survey; table; type; use; women; work; world
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- ajod-901
- author: None
- title: ajod-901
- date: None
- words: 7114
- flesch: 46
- summary: Teacher competencies in providing learning support Teachers are better positioned to provide learning support in inclusive classrooms (De Jager 2013; Forlin & Chambers 2011). Each group had four teachers from each school who did not participate in the individual interviews and two learning support teachers.
- keywords: african; analysis; assessment; author; barriers; competencies; competent; continuous; curriculum; data; dbe; department; design; different; difficulties; disabilities; district; doe; edn; eds; education; feedback; female; findings; focus; forms; government; grade; identification; inclusive; inclusive education; information; interventions; interviews; journal; language; learners; learning; learning difficulties; learning support; mainstream; methods; needs; nel; observations; parents; participants; phase; pretoria; processes; reading; research; schaik; schools; senior; social; south; special; specific; specific learning; splds; strategies; study; support; teachers; teaching; training; university; van; vos; writing
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- ajod-906
- author: None
- title: ajod-906
- date: None
- words: 7796
- flesch: 56
- summary: Keywords: full-service schools; Grade 3 teachers; learner support teachers; reading problems; Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory. Moderate level of support refers to the type of support that the teachers can offer to learners who experience mild cognitive, hearing and visual impairments and learning problems including reading problems in their classrooms with additional assistance received from the therapists, counsellors or learner support teachers (LSTs).
- keywords: abilities; africa; alphabet; article; barriers; basic; bronfenbrenner; challenges; children; classroom; data; dbe; department; different; difficulties; diverse; ecological; education; environment; experience; female; fsss; gauteng; grade; home; knowledge; lack; language; learners; learning; letters; level; mainstream; national; needs; observation; parents; participants; phala; phase; policy; pretoria; primary; primary school; problems; qualitative; reading; reading problems; research; result; school; school teacher; service; skills; sounds; south; study; support; systems; teachers; teaching; theme; theory; understanding; young
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- ajod-907
- author: None
- title: ajod-907
- date: None
- words: 7085
- flesch: 43
- summary: Introduction The World Report on acquired disabilities is an intricate and multifaceted concept because there are many definitions depending on the disciplines, such as medicine, sociology and politics (Mitra 2006). Historically, the concept of acquired disability was perceived as a religious myth, and various African cultures perceive it differently (Eskay et al. 2012).
- keywords: aad; access; adulthood; adults; africa; analysis; authors; care; chair; chen; community; coping; cord; data; different; disabilities; disability; disabled; emotion; experiences; focused; function; hands; health; hope; human; impairment; individuals; information; injury; international; interviews; journal; legs; life; living; loss; lower; medicine; moos; muscles; negative; new; november; organization; participants; people; persons; physical; physical disabilities; positive; problem; psychological; psychology; punishment; qualitative; reality; rehabilitation; religious; research; results; rights; rural; science; self; services; social; society; south; spinal; spiritual; strategies; strategy; stress; study; support; themes; types; university; visual; wheel; wheelchair; work; world
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- ajod-908
- author: None
- title: ajod-908
- date: None
- words: 11853
- flesch: 42
- summary: This diversity of requirements can lead to serious educational needs that are difficult to accommodate alone either in special education schools for children with blindness or children with deafness (Wolford 2016). Research questions How do public and private schools in the districts of Mukono, Wakiso and Kampala understand inclusive schools and classrooms?
- keywords: able; access; accessible; action; african; better; blind; certain; children; class; classrooms; communication; community; convention; curriculum; data; deaf; development; different; disabilities; disability; districts; diversity; education; environment; example; exclusion; financial; free; funding; government; group; hearing; high; human; impairments; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive education; inclusive schools; interviews; journal; kampala; kind; knowledge; language; large; learners; learning; level; materials; methods; moes; mukono; national; nations; needs; non; number; order; parents; people; persons; physical; practice; primary; primary education; primary school; private; private schools; public; pwds; quality; research; results; rights; routines; schools; secondary; sen; skills; social; special; special education; special needs; sps; standards; state; state schools; students; study; support; system; teachers; teaching; time; training; tuition; uganda; uncrpd; understanding; unesco; united; use; visual; vocational; wakiso; ways; work; world; years
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- ajod-91
- author: None
- title: ajod-91
- date: None
- words: 6155
- flesch: 36
- summary: Because of the documented increased reliance on public transportation of people with certain communication disorders (Ashton et al. 2008), and the predominant use of mini-bus taxis in South Africa (Van Zyl 2009), this study set out to investigate taxi drivers’ experiences of, attitudes towards, and beliefs about passengers with communication disorders, in order to identify significant environmental factors influencing taxi usage within the South African context. Article Information Authors: Sianne Green1 Munyane Mophosho1 Katijah Khoza-Shangase1 Affiliations: 1Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Correspondence to: Munyane Mophosho Email: munyane.mophosho @wits.ac.za Postal address: Private Bag 3, WITS 2050, South Africa Dates: Received: 04 Oct. 2013 Accepted: 19 Nov. 2014 Published: 06 Feb. 2015 How to cite this article: Green, S., Mophosho, M. & Khoza-Shangase, K., 2015, ‘Commuting and communication: An investigation of taxi drivers’ experiences, attitudes and beliefs about passengers with communication disorders’, African Journal of Disability 4(1), Art.
- keywords: access; accessible; africa; analysis; attitudes; awareness; beliefs; bus; communication; communication disability; communication disorders; context; data; destination; different; disabilities; disability; disabled; disorders; drivers; environmental; experiences; factors; findings; health; hearing; human; icf; impairments; individuals; information; interview; knowledge; language; level; like; mini; national; negative; normal; organization; participants; participation; passengers; people; problem; public; research; rights; sign; social; south; speech; study; taxi; taxi drivers; terms; transport; transportation; use; watermeyer; world
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- ajod-92
- author: None
- title: ajod-92
- date: None
- words: 6923
- flesch: 40
- summary: Conclusion: This project demonstrated that there is interest and capacity for improving stroke rehabilitation practices and for stroke guideline development in Africa. In the first year, many of the managers in the organisations involved did not understand practice guidelines, or the concepts of evidence-based or best practices; now, five years later, team members are encouraged that they have a tangible outcome to share with managers, administers and policy makers, and hope that other opportunities will arise to develop and use guidelines or similar tools in their work.
- keywords: africa; agree; articles; authors; available; best; best practice; cameroon; care; challenges; changes; clinical; context; countries; current; development; discussions; document; draft; et al; evaluation; evidence; experience; final; group; group members; guidelines; health; high; hospital; implementation; improved; income; international; journal; local; low; management; managers; medical; meetings; members; ministry; need; network; north; nwr; opportunities; organisations; outcomes; patients; people; practice; practice guidelines; practitioners; process; professional; project; providers; public; quality; recommendations; region; rehabilitation; research; resources; review; scope; services; significant; south; step; stroke; stroke rehabilitation; students; support; team; time; toronto; units; university; use; west; working
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- ajod-930
- author: None
- title: ajod-930
- date: None
- words: 9367
- flesch: 44
- summary: Keywords: non-governmental organisations; caregivers; children with disabilities; caregiver challenges; Tshwane townships. Support caregivers could receive is reliant on individual caregivers’ personal experiences and circumstances.
- keywords: africa; alzheimer; analysis; authors; basic; care recipients; caregivers; caregiving; caregiving role; challenges; children; community; countries; data; development; difficult; disabilities; disability; disabled; empowerment; experience; factors; female; findings; governmental; health; health care; help; high; informal; information; initial; international; interviews; journal; knowledge; lack; level; life; management; medical; medication; need; negative; ngos; non; numerous; nursing; optimal; organisations; outside; participants; participation; patients; people; phase; physical; poor; preparedness; prevalence; programmes; psychological; qualitative; quality; readiness; recipients; recognition; rehabilitation; research; resources; results; role; sciences; services; skills; social; society; south; specific; strategies; stress; study; support; themes; time; townships; training; tshwane; understanding; university; use; world; years; york
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- ajod-931
- author: None
- title: ajod-931
- date: None
- words: 3819
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- summary: Abstract Introduction Family-centred care workshop process Workshop outcomes Recommendations Conclusion Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Pauline Samia Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya Brain and Mind Institute, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya Susan Wamithi Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya Amina Kassam Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya Melissa Tirkha Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya Edward Kija Department of Paediatrics, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar Es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania Ayalew Moges Department of Paediatrics, Debre Tabor Hospital, Debre Tabor, Ethiopia Arnab Seal Department of Paediatrics, Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Peter Rosenbaum Department of Paediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Robert Armstrong Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya Citation Samia, P., Wamithi, S., Kassam, A., Tirkha, M., Kija, E., Moges, A., et al. 2022, ‘Child disability and family-centred care in East Africa: Perspectives from a workshop with stakeholders and health practitioners’, African Journal of Disability 11(0), a931. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v11i0.931 Conference Report Child disability and family-centred care in East Africa: Perspectives from a workshop with stakeholders and health practitioners Pauline Samia, Susan Wamithi, Amina Kassam, Melissa Tirkha, Edward Kija, Ayalew Moges, Arnab Seal, Peter Rosenbaum, Robert Armstrong Received: 31 Aug. 2021; Accepted: 10 Apr. 2022; Published: 29 July 2022 Copyright: Abstract Background: Our understanding of child disability has undergone major changes over the last three decades transforming our approach to assessment and management.
- keywords: access; africa; aga; approach; article; care; child; child disability; children; classification; community; context; data; department; development; disabilities; disability; eaacd; east; education; evidence; families; family; fcc; framework; function; global; government; health; icf; impact; international; kenya; khan; life; low; model; nairobi; need; organization; paediatrics; parents; participants; participation; practice; practitioners; professionals; recognition; role; rosenbaum; services; settings; social; understanding; university; words; workshop; world
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- ajod-932
- author: None
- title: ajod-932
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- summary: Abstract Introduction Methods Results Discussion Conclusion Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Carushca de Beer Department of Psychology, Faculty of Community and Health Science, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa Serena Isaacs Department of Psychology, Faculty of Community and Health Science, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa Cameron Lawrence Department of Psychology, Faculty of Community and Health Science, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa Gugulethu Cebekhulu Department of Psychology, Faculty of Community and Health Science, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa Jade M. Morkel Department of Psychology, Faculty of Community and Health Science, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa Jonathan Nell Department of Psychology, Faculty of Community and Health Science, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa Noluthando Mpisane Department of Psychology, Faculty of Community and Health Science, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa Wayne P. van Tonder Department of Psychology, Faculty of Community and Health Science, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa Yolanda R. Mayman Department of Psychology, Faculty of Community and Health Science, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa Lobisa Z. Thobejane Department of Psychology, Faculty of Community and Health Science, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa Athena Pedro Department of Psychology, Faculty of Community and Health Science, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa Citation De Beer, C., Isaacs, S., Lawrence, C., Cebekhulu, G., Morkel, J.M., Nell, J. et al., 2022, ‘The subjective experiences of students with invisible disabilities at a historically disadvantaged university’, African Journal of Disability 11(0), a932. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v11i0.932 Original Research The subjective experiences of students with invisible disabilities at a historically disadvantaged university Carushca de Beer, Serena Isaacs, Cameron Lawrence, Gugulethu Cebekhulu, Jade M. Morkel, Jonathan Nell, Noluthando Mpisane, Wayne P. van Tonder, Yolanda R. Mayman, Lobisa Z. Thobejane, Athena Pedro Received: 27 Aug. 2021; Accepted: 10 Apr. 2022; Published: 10 June 2022 Copyright: Abstract Background: Despite policies that promote inclusivity of students with various challenges, students with invisible disabilities at higher learning institutions may encounter various levels of stigma and marginalisation.
- keywords: academic; access; accommodation; adhd; africa; age; analysis; anxiety; authors; autoimmune; available; awareness; bipolar; campus; cape; challenges; community; context; cook; data; department; development; disabilities; disability; disability unit; disadvantaged; disclosure; disorder; education; experiences; faculty; female; findings; health; health science; higher; higher education; institutions; interviews; invisible; invisible disabilities; journal; lack; learning; lecturers; life; members; need; pandemic; participant; peers; people; personal; persons; physical; psychology; research; rights; science; services; social; south; staff; stigma; students; study; subjective; support; teaching; tertiary; time; town; transition; unit; university; venville; western
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- ajod-935
- author: None
- title: ajod-935
- date: None
- words: 9585
- flesch: 50
- summary: Deaf learners, their parents, teachers and officials of the Department of Basic Education, as well as through document reviews. Conclusion: This study concluded that linguistic exclusions experienced by Deaf learners are created by a combination of systemic factors, which impede the career construction of D/deaf learners.
- keywords: access; acquisition; africa; article; basic; cape; career; career construction; case; children; communication; construction; constructivism; context; critical; curriculum; data; deaf; deaf children; deaf education; deaf learners; deafness; department; development; different; disabilities; early; eastern; eastern cape; education; english; exclusions; female; findings; focus; government; group; hearing; high; home; identification; important; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive education; individual; issues; journal; knowledge; lack; language; late; learners; learning; life; linguistic; linguistic exclusions; male; matrix; methods; multiple; needs; parents; people; policy; poor; pre; province; research; schools; settings; sign; sign language; social; south; south africa; special; studies; study; support; taught; teachers; teaching; themes; theory; training; university; use; years
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- ajod-936
- author: None
- title: ajod-936
- date: None
- words: 4704
- flesch: 35
- summary: The findings demonstrated that transport barriers were present in different modes of transport and different parts of the travel chain. The complaints received by the DoT between 2010 and 2020 from students enrolled for learnerships indicated that learners with disabilities were unable to complete learnerships due to transport barriers, thus supporting the findings in Mqikela (2015) and Mahembe (2016).
- keywords: access; accessible; africa; article; authors; barrier; complaints; completion; data; department; development; dhet; disabilities; disability; dot; education; employment; evaluation; experience; findings; higher; information; lack; learnership; mahembe; mqikela; national; october; people; phase; planning; post; pretoria; problem; public; questionnaire; recruitment; responses; setas; skills; south; students; studies; study; survey; training; transport; workplace
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- ajod-937
- author: None
- title: ajod-937
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- words: 5473
- flesch: 38
- summary: Abstract Background: Appropriate provision of assistive technology services (ATS) and products are a global health issue and essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Objective: This article aimed to summarise the workshop proceedings and to provide some recommendations on how coherence and cohesion can be facilitated in assistive technology services in Africa.
- keywords: access; africa; afrinead; approach; appropriate; article; assistive; assistive products; assistive technology; ats; chai; coherence; cohesion; collaboration; communities; community; continent; countries; country; delivery; development; disability; essential; et al; evidence; geneva; global; health; healthcare; information; initiatives; journal; khasnabis; knowledge; layton; maclachlan; mji; need; network; organisations; outcomes; participants; people; persons; primary; priority; process; products; provision; quality; regional; rehabilitation; research; resources; round; service; sharing; small; social; south; specific; strategies; studies; table; technology; training; ubuntu; united; university; users; visagie; western; workshop; world
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- ajod-941
- author: None
- title: ajod-941
- date: None
- words: 7263
- flesch: 44
- summary: Conclusion: The inclusion of local community knowledge and ways of knowing within inclusive education policies is viewed as a critical and an integral aspect of policymaking. Local knowledge is also tacit knowledge, and this attribute has been cited as a reason for marginalising local knowledge.
- keywords: able; access; africa; analysis; approach; article; author; boossabong; challenges; children; communities; community; context; countries; country; critical; cultural; data; development; different; disabilities; disability; document; economic; education; education policy; february; focus; ghana; global; government; health; home; impact; implementation; important; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive education; indigenous; influence; information; international; issues; journal; knowledge; life; local; local knowledge; magnússon; march; national; ohajunwa; outcomes; participants; people; person; policies; policy; policymakers; policymaking; practitioner; problems; relevant; research; school; social; south; study; sustainable; teachers; uganda; understanding; unesco; values; way; work
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- ajod-942
- author: None
- title: ajod-942
- date: None
- words: 2795
- flesch: 46
- summary: I was queuing with other parents of children with disabilities at the physiotherapy department when one of the staff members came outside and said, ‘parents of CP children should move from this queue and queue on the other side of the building’. After a few months, I noticed that he was not reaching the expected physical developmental milestones like other children of his age.
- keywords: africa; article; caregivers; cerebral; child; children; condition; context; development; disabilities; disability; english; experiences; family; health; healthcare; hospital; information; journal; knowledge; language; limpopo; mother; palsy; parents; persons; professionals; research; rights; rural; services; south; support; system
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- ajod-943
- author: None
- title: ajod-943
- date: None
- words: 3594
- flesch: 37
- summary: Keywords: journal club; interdisciplinary; evidence-based practice; practice-based evidence first person action research; community rehabilitation; under-resourced communities. Participants noted some challenges related to participating in journal club, which are important to be aware of and to mitigate against: ‘An initial low was how daunting it was to read more than the abstract and a more recent low is around not always being able to make journal club a place that everyone feels comfortable and wants to be a part of.’
- keywords: action; africa; articles; authors; bullen; campaign; cape; chaeli; children; club; communities; community; development; disabilities; disability; education; evidence; female; geiger; health; hpcsa; interdisciplinary; journal; journal club; learning; luger; meetings; old; participants; person; planning; practice; rehabilitation; research; south; speech; teachers; team; therapists; therapy; town; work; writing; years
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- ajod-946
- author: None
- title: ajod-946
- date: None
- words: 3895
- flesch: 23
- summary: The core research areas are as follows: analysis of data already collected by TEDI as it relates to teacher empowerment and disability inclusion evaluation of the face-to-face and online training courses developed by TEDI an investigation into the ways in which inclusive education policy and practice in South Africa enables quality and equitable education for children with disabilities comparative studies of inclusive education in the Global South exploration of instructional and social practices that support inclusion, such as teacher education, parent support, leadership skills and similar studies theoretical perspectives on disability in education, drawing upon frameworks of critical disability studies and post-colonial theory. In order to provide an empirical basis for our work, we conducted research studies resulting in the following reports: Teacher education: An analysis of the availability of teacher education addressing the educational needs of learners with severe to profound sensory or intellectual impairments Starting where we are: Situational analysis of the educational needs of learners with severe to profound sensory or intellectual impairments in South Africa Perceptions of South African teachers on how they feel supported in teaching learners with special educational needs: Perspectives on inclusive education in South Africa Educating and caring for children with profound intellectual disability: A manual for carers and teachers.
- keywords: africa; article; barriers; cape; cbm; children; communities; context; department; development; disabilities; disability; education; face; health; idea; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive education; international; learners; learning; march; mckenzie; nations; needs; networking; online; policy; profound; relevant; research; sciences; severe; social; south; south africa; specific; stakeholders; studies; support; teacher; town; training; unit; united; university
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- ajod-948
- author: None
- title: ajod-948
- date: None
- words: 7988
- flesch: 41
- summary: Training reports were written by the training facilitators, research team members and peer parents after every training session. The average household size was 4.8 (SD = 2.05, range 1–9) for parents with CwD and 5.3 (SD = 3.6, range 0–15) for peer parents.
- keywords: activities; african; analysis; article; attitudes; bannink; baseline; belonging; bulamu; care; change; children; communities; community; cwd; data; development; disabilities; disability; disability inclusion; district; education; endline; evaluation; family; fgds; findings; focal; group; home; household; implementation; inclusion; inclusive; international; intervention; involvement; journal; kampala; kiis; learning; lshtm; mbazzi; meetings; members; mrc; needs; obuntu; old; outcomes; parental; parents; participants; participation; peer; peer parents; peer support; play; positive; potential; practices; primary; qualitative; research; review; rights; role; school; sessions; social; son; studies; study; support; teachers; team; time; training; uganda; united; university; uvri; years
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- ajod-949
- author: None
- title: ajod-949
- date: None
- words: 4653
- flesch: 36
- summary: The intention was to interrogate training models used at the institution, from the perspectives of students, facilitators and prospective employers. Keywords: training; assessment; training models; student-centred; accommodation; South Africa.
- keywords: aca; adaptable; affordances; africa; approach; appropriate; article; assessment; competencies; components; core; data; department; development; disabilities; disability; education; elements; employers; employment; evaluation; focus; human; individual; information; institute; institution; instrument; journal; july; knowledge; learning; literature; meta; methods; mixed; model; national; needs; organisation; people; programmes; purpose; research; results; review; rights; rsa; skills; social; south; students; study; success; suitable; training; vornholt; work; workplace
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- ajod-95
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 9399
- flesch: 40
- summary: Action and advocacy on the rights of persons with disabilities, 2nd edn., University of Minnesota Human Rights Center, viewed 27 June 2014, from http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/edumat/hreduseries/HR-YES/contents.html McMahon, B., Edwards, R., Rumrill P.D., & Hursh N., 2005, ‘An overview of the National EEOC ADA Research Project’, Work 25(1), 1–7. Mitra, S., 2006, ‘The capability approach and disability’, Journal of Disability Policy Studies 16(4), 236–247. Mitra, S. & Sambamoorthi, U., 2008, ‘Disability and the rural labor market in India: evidence for males in Tamil Nadu’, World Development 36(5), 943–952. Mitra, S. & Sambamoorthi, U., 2009, ‘Wage differential by disability status in an agrarian labor market in India’, Applied Economics Letters 16(14), 1393–1398. Mitra, S. & Sambamoorthi, U., 2014, ‘Disability prevalence among adults: Estimates for 54 Countries and progress toward a global estimate’, Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series. In their study, which gives a snapshot of economic and poverty situation of persons with disabilities of working age in 15 developing countries, Mitra, Posarac & Vick (2011) charted several pathways relating disability to poverty.
- keywords: 2012; accommodation; article; barriers; capabilities; capital; counterparts; countries; data; difference; disabilities; disability; discrimination; education; employment; family; females; finding; gap; gender; ghana; global; government; health; hearing; higher; income; individuals; jobs; lack; levels; likely; lower; majority; males; mitra; mizunoya; nations; need; northern; organization; participants; people; persons; physical; poverty; private; public; questions; rates; report; research; respondents; results; sector; self; service; sex; significant; skills; social; statistical; studies; study; support; table; test; training; unemployed; united; visual; vulnerable; women; work; working; world; years
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- ajod-951
- author: None
- title: ajod-951
- date: None
- words: 10523
- flesch: 51
- summary: Despite challenges that parents and families of children with disabilities often experience, many parents of such children adapt and develop resilience in the face of challenges; particularly where parents work together and support each other in developing their own ways of addressing the challenges they often face (Gerstein et al. 2009; Gona et al. 2011; Tshabalala 2014). The study was conducted in the Eastern Cape province (ECP) of South Africa (SA) on parents’ views in caring for children with disability in an area with minimal health facilities in a rural setting.
- keywords: access; africa; akhurst; areas; article; attitudes; birth; cape; caregivers; caring; centre; challenges; child; children; community; context; cultural; data; development; diagnosis; disabilities; disability; disability diagnosis; disabled; et al; experiences; extended; families; family; father; fear; female; findings; gona; happy; health; healthcare; hemming; home; information; journal; lack; life; makhubele; members; mji; mother; needs; negative; parents; participants; people; poor; problems; professionals; public; rehabilitation; research; rural; school; services; setting; social; son; south; studies; study; sub; support; teachers; theme; time; town; transport; tshabalala; understanding; unemployed; vergunst; views; yaacob
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- ajod-952
- author: None
- title: ajod-952
- date: None
- words: 7721
- flesch: 41
- summary: Keywords: challenges; child; development; family support; intellectual disability; needs. The fundamental goals of family support intended to encourage positive feelings towards the family to commence and continue proactively in taking appropriate steps to raise fulfilled children (Fujioka et al. 2015).
- keywords: able; access; addition; africa; age; author; capricorn; care; challenges; children; communities; community; conditions; data; department; depth; development; disabilities; disability; discussion; district; edn; education; environment; experience; families; family; findings; focus; government; group; health; healthcare; home; individual; information; intellectual; intellectual disability; interviews; journal; knowledge; lack; life; limpopo; living; mckenzie; members; mother; municipality; nations; needs; nursing; old; parents; participant; persons; poor; professionals; programmes; province; qualitative; quality; regard; researcher; rights; rural; school; services; similar; social; south; south africa; studies; study; support; support needs; support services; time; transport; understanding; united; van; years
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- ajod-954
- author: None
- title: ajod-954
- date: None
- words: 8367
- flesch: 40
- summary: Le Roux, M., 2018, ‘There is a place in the sun for people with disabilities within the arts: Exploring how interaction with the performing arts may facilitate the social and economic inclusion of youth with disabilities’, Unpublished MPhil in disability studies thesis, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town. Abstract Introduction Theoretical framework and methodology of the study Findings Discussion Conclusion Study implications Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Marlene F. le Roux Centre for disability and rehabilitation Studies and AfriNEAD, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa Citation Le Roux, M.F., 2022, ‘Key considerations for an inclusive framework for youth with disabilities in post-apartheid South Africa’, African Journal of Disability 11(0), a954.
- keywords: access; africa; agency; analysis; apartheid; area; article; arts; attendee; barriers; black; cape; care; challenges; communities; community; context; critical; data; deaf; development; disabilities; disability; disabled; disadvantaged; economic; education; equal; experiences; families; feminist; fg3; focus; framework; group; health; history; inclusion; inclusive; international; journal; key; learners; levels; lorenzo; march; marginalisation; methodology; mixed; narratives; need; november; opportunities; participants; people; personal; persons; public; pwd; qualitative; race; research; resilience; resources; rights; roux; school; self; sense; social; society; south africa; spaces; structures; student; studies; study; support; systemic; systems; theatre; town; transportation; understanding; university; white; women; world; young; youth
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- ajod-97
- author: None
- title: None
- date: None
- words: 7033
- flesch: 40
- summary: A major inference from the study findings is that traditional injury management which is reported to be widely practised (Abdullahi 2011; Fokunang et al. 2011) remains valuable and acceptable as an alternative health care. Published: 16 July 2015 How to cite this article: Edusei, A. K., Owusu-Ansah, F.E., Dogbe, J. A., Morgan, J., Sarpong, K., 2015, ‘Perspectives in musculoskeletal injury management by traditional bone setters in Ashanti, Ghana’, African Journal of Disability 4(1), Art.
- keywords: abdullahi; african; alternative; analysis; animal; ariés; ashanti; beliefs; bone; bone setters; butter; care; dada; data; disability; et al; experiences; family; findings; fracture; ghana; god; healing; health; healthcare; high; information; injured; injuries; injury; interviews; journal; kennedy; kwame; major; management; materials; medical; medicine; mercel; methods; mock; musculoskeletal; musculoskeletal injuries; nature; nkrumah; onuminya; orthodox; outcome; parts; people; perspectives; plant; powers; practice; procedures; providers; recovery; region; research; respect; results; science; services; setters; setting; shea; spiritual; spirituality; study; tbs; technology; therapeutic; traditional; traditional bone; traditional medicine; treatment; university; users
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- ajod-974
- author: None
- title: ajod-974
- date: None
- words: 6618
- flesch: 52
- summary: https://doi.org/10.1590/2317-1782/2014029IN Flexer, C., Millin, J.P. & Brown, L., 1990, ‘Children with developmental disabilities: The effect of sound field amplification on word identification’, Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 21(3), 177–182. https://doi.org/10.1044/0161-1461.2103.177 Gjessing, B., Glesnes, T.B. & Ørland, I., 2020, ‘Hearing care in Tanzania – What interventions can be provided to school children with hearing impairments when hearing aids are out of reach and the classroom acoustics is challenging? Children with impacted earwax or foreign bodies (e.g. insects, impacted sand and pebbles) in the ear canal and children with visible acute middle ear pathologies or pain were excluded from the study and referred to an ear specialist.
- keywords: acoustical; aids; amplification; amplifier; article; assistive; benefit; best; centre; children; classroom; closer; conditions; control; data; dba; department; devices; different; dtt; education; effect; group; health; hearing; hearing impairment; impairment; international; interventions; journal; language; learning; level; listening; lmics; loss; loudspeaker; manuscript; mean; measurements; microphone; mild; moderate; noise; normal; norway; organization; personal; position; prevalence; project; public; reception; research; responsible; results; row; school; school children; services; situation; sound; speech; students; study; system; tanzania; teachers; technical; test; testing; tone; use; user; world
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- ajod-975
- author: None
- title: ajod-975
- date: None
- words: 8906
- flesch: 33
- summary: Indeed, participants brought awareness on the importance of having accessible infrastructures and vehicles as well as renovating nonaccessible ones to minimise social participation barriers and optimise accessibility to services. Abstract Introduction Method Results Discussion Limitations Conclusion Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Annabelle de Serres-Lafontaine Department of Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation and Social Integration (Cirris), Quebec, Canada Delphine Labbé Department of Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois, United States Charles S. Batcho Department of Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation and Social Integration (Cirris), Quebec, Canada Lucy Norris Motivation Charitable Trust, Bristol, United Kingdom Krista L. Best Department of Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation and Social Integration (Cirris), Quebec, Canada Citation De Serres-Lafontaine, A., Labbé, D., Batcho, C.S., Norris, L. & Best, K.L., 2023, ‘Social participation of individuals with spinal injury using wheelchairs in rural Tanzania after peer training and entrepreneurial skills training’, African Journal of Disability 12(0), a975.
- keywords: able; access; accessibility; accessible; activities; advocacy; approach; article; assistive; awareness; barriers; basic; best; building; canada; challenges; church; community; cord; daily; data; disabilities; disability; e.g.; education; efficacy; engagement; environmental; equal; esteem; et al; experiences; factors; female; figure; functioning; health; help; home; human; icf; inclusion; individuals; injury; integration; international; issues; life; living; male; meaningful; medicine; mobility; motivation; mpt; needs; norris; occupational; opportunities; organization; participants; participation; peer; people; personal; photos; photovoice; physical; picture; programmes; provision; public; quality; rehabilitation; research; resourced; rights; rural; sci; scis; self; services; settings; skills; social; social participation; spinal; study; support; tanzania; technology; training; transportation; use; users; wcs; wheelchair; world
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- ajod-979
- author: None
- title: ajod-979
- date: None
- words: 10742
- flesch: 45
- summary: Mainstream school teacher 2 attested both to the value of inclusion of learners with ASD and the difficulty that comes with it: ‘I definitely think that there are advantages. Mainstream school teacher 1 relates an exemplary success story: ‘We had a young person that came here at an advanced age already, and we had to physically get him from the dark corners of the buildings every now and then… It took a year and a half for him to start talking, and then we couldn’t have him quiet, and then by the end of matric year he stood up and made a little speech in front of the whole school.’
- keywords: action; africa; analysis; approach; appropriate; article; asd; asd learners; attitudes; autism; challenges; children; classroom; codes; collaboration; communication; curriculum; data; department; development; different; difficulties; disabilities; disability; disorder; education; engelbrecht; environment; ewp6; experiences; florian; framework; fst1; impairments; implementation; important; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive education; individual; international; interview; ipaa; journal; knowledge; lack; learners; learning; london; mainstream; mainstream schools; mt1; needs; needs education; nel; open; opportunities; participants; pedagogical; pedagogy; people; policy; practice; principle; process; professional; progress; qualitative; questions; research; responses; school; service; skills; social; south; south africa; special; special education; special school; specific; spectrum; strategies; strategy; study; success; support; system; teachers; teaching; themes; training; understanding; university; use; views; visual
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- ajod-981
- author: None
- title: ajod-981
- date: None
- words: 10470
- flesch: 47
- summary: In Mangochi, selected children were 6–14 years old, as the underlying study focused on mass drug administration for soil transmitted helminths delivered to primary school children. As a mother of a boy aged 15 with epilepsy and profound hearing and intellectual impairment who is not in school explained, the key reasons why her son and other children wanted to attend school were because they wanted to learn and spend time with their peers: ‘He started [school] on his own, he would admire his friends.
- keywords: access; age; aged; analysis; article; attendance; attitudes; banks; barriers; boy; bullying; caregivers; cases; challenges; children; class; classroom; communication; community; costs; countries; country; data; development; difficult; difficulties; disabilities; disability; education; environmental; et al; experiences; factors; families; friends; girl; health; hearing; home; impact; impairment; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive education; intellectual; international; interviews; journal; lack; learning; london; mainstream; malawi; mangochi; medicine; mitra; mother; multiple; nations; needs; non; ntcheu; old; participants; participation; peers; people; persons; physical; poverty; primary; profound; quality; reason; research; resource; school; secondary; services; settings; singal; social; special; students; studies; study; support; teachers; time; unicef; united; visual; world; year; zuurmond
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- ajod-99
- author: None
- title: ajod-99
- date: None
- words: 9424
- flesch: 45
- summary: Priestley, M., 2006, ‘Developing disability studies programmes: The international context’, in B. Watermeyer, L. Swartz, T. Lorenzo, M. Schneider & M. Priestley (eds.), Disability and social change: A South African agenda, pp. 19–31, HSRC Press, Cape Town. Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), 2010, Strategic plan 2010–2015 and operational plans 2010–2011 , viewed 13 May 2014, from http://planipolis.iiep.unesco.org/upload/South%20Africa/South_Africa_DoHE_stratplan2010-2015.pdf Department of Higher Education and Training, DHET, 2014, Speech by minister of Higher Education and Training Education, MP, Dr B.E. Nzimande at the launch of the white paper for post school and training , viewed 14 May 2014, from http://www.dhet.gov.za/SiteAssets/Minister%20Speeches2014/2014%20Jan%2016.pdf Department of Public Works, 2010, Disability policy guidelines , viewed 14 May 2014, www.publicworks.gov.za/PDFs/.../Disability_Policy_Guideline.pdf Department of Women, Children and People with Disabilities, DWCPD, 2013, Baseline country report to the United Nations on Implementation of CRPD in South Africa 2008–2012.
- keywords: africa; approach; article; assistance; attitude; business; california; change; classification; context; data; department; determination; development; dhet; different; difficulties; dis)abilities; dis)ability; disabilities; disability; disabled; dwcpd; education; eide; enabled; environment; experiences; fact; family; good; health; higher; important; individual; ingstad; international; job; knowledge; little; m.l; narrative; needs; new; oliver; oxford; participants; people; percent; person; personal; policy; positive; practice; press; psychology; question; received; research; responses; rights; school; self; skills; social; society; south; special; specific; strengths; structures; study; success; support; themes; training; unique; university; watermeyer; way; wehmeyer; work; workplace; world; york
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- ajod-990
- author: None
- title: ajod-990
- date: None
- words: 5847
- flesch: 33
- summary: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v6i0.280 Hashemi, G., Wickenden, M., Bright, T. & Kuper, H., 2020, ‘Barriers to accessing primary healthcare services for people with disabilities in low and middle-income countries, a Meta-synthesis of qualitative studies’, Disability and Rehabilitation 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)31638-1 Muderedzi, J.T., Eide, A.H., Braathen, S.H. & Stray-Pedersen, B., 2017, ‘Exploring structural violence in the context of disability and poverty in Zimbabwe’, African Journal of Disability 6, 274. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v6i0.274 Pata, C., 2017, ‘Disability is not asexuality: The childbearing experiences and aspirations of women with disability in Zimbabwe’, Reproductive Health Matters 25, 10–19.
- keywords: access; african; age; analysis; assistants; awareness; barriers; bright; challenges; clinics; collection; components; data; delivery; demand; development; disabilities; disability; experiences; face; facilities; framework; general; harare; health; health services; healthcare; hospital; impairment; inclusion; inclusive; inclusive health; informant; information; interviews; journal; key; kuper; level; limited; living; london; low; medical; medication; medicine; missing; needs; opds; participants; people; person; qualitative; rehabilitation; research; review; rural; services; specialist; study; supply; support; system; themes; tropical; workers; zimbabwe
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- ajod-991
- author: None
- title: ajod-991
- date: None
- words: 9178
- flesch: 50
- summary: One representative highlighted: ‘It was difficult for our clients to get authorisation to travel, either to travel to access health services at health centres … they had to go to the headman or chief to get a letter.’ https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzm042 Appendix 1: Interview guide for people with disabilities Purpose: To gain insights into people with disabilities’ access to health care services and their experiences when accessing or receiving care.
- keywords: access; activities; activity; african; age; analysis; anxiety; available; awareness; barriers; care; caregivers; challenges; children; community; consent; coronavirus; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; daily; data; delivery; demand; different; disabilities; disability; economic; experiences; facilitators; fear; financial; framework; functional; general; guidelines; harare; health; health care; health services; impact; impairment; inclusive; inclusive health; informant; information; interview; key; kuper; limited; measures; missing; mitigation; national; needs; opds; pandemic; participant; people; person; physical; policies; probes; products; programme; prompts; qualitative; questions; rehabilitation; research; response; risk; services; shakespeare; social; strengths; study; supply; support; system; time; type; use; ways; weaknesses; zimbabwe
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- ajod-999
- author: Office, Editorial
- title: Acknowledgements to reviewers
- date: 2021-12-21
- words: 436
- flesch: 35
- summary: It is good practice as a reviewer to update your personal details regularly to ensure contact with you throughout your professional term as reviewer to African Journal of Disability. http://www.ajod.org Open Access Page 1 of 1 Reviewer Acknowledgement Acknowledgement to reviewers In an effort to facilitate the selection of appropriate peer reviewers for the African Journal of Disability, we ask that you take a moment to update your electronic portfolio on https://ajod.org for our files, allowing us better access to your areas of interest and expertise, in order to match reviewers with submitted manuscripts.
- keywords: access; acknowledgement; african; details; disability; http://www.ajod.org; https://ajod.org/index.php/ajod/user; journal; peer; publication; reviewer; tel; user; website
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