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Faculty of Humanities
School of Professional Social Sciences
Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC)

Alant, E

MA(Log) DPhil(Pret) - Director: CAAC

NRF Rating: B3

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Contact Details:

Telephone number: 012 420 2035
Fax number: 012 420 4389
E-mail address: erna.alant@up.ac.za

Research Interests:

Life skills and employment of people with disabilities

Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)

Assistive communication technology

Multilingualism and AAC classroom implementation for children with disabilities

Severe disability

Early childhood intervention

Research Output:

Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Goldblum G, Alant E: 2008. Sales assistants serving customers with a traumatic brain injury. Aphasiology, 23 (1), pp 87-109, Full Text

Visser N, Alant E, Harty M: 2008. Which Graphic Symbols do 4-year old children choose to represent each of the four basic emotions?. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 24 (4), pp 302-312.

Stobbart C, Alant E: 2008. Home-based literacy experiences of severely to profoundly deaf preschoolers and their hearing parents. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 20 (2) / Apr, pp 139-153, Full Text

Herold M, Alant E, Bornman J: 2008. Typing speed, spelling accuracy, and the use of word-prediction. South African Journal of Education/ Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Opvoedkunde, 28 (1), pp 117-133, Full Text

 

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