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An exploration of the barriers and enablers that NGO service providers experienced in delivering community-based rehabilitation services to children with cerebral palsy in the Bitou local municipality, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Presently, two main modalities of service delivery with regards to cerebral palsy rehabilitation exist in South Africa: institution-based and community-based rehabilitation. The Framework and Strategy on Disability and ...
Training implementation evaluation of the updated 2019 integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) guideline using the CIPP model
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness strategy, launched in the 1990’s by the World Health Organization and the United Nation’s Children Fund uses a clinical guideline to promote evidence-based assessment and ...
Protesting death-disability-debility imaginaries: Ontological erasure and the endemic violences of settler colonialism
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
White supremacist rule socially engineered impoverishment dispossession and fomented brutality that black people in South Africa were made to endure through centuries at the settler colonial history , which was intensified ...
Nurses attitudes towards stimulation activities for persons with intellectual disability at a psychiatric hospital within the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Globally, stimulation activities yield positive outcomes for persons with intellectual disability (ID), in terms of behavioural and cognitive changes. Intellectual disability is characterised by significant changes in ...
Factors affecting stroke patients’ access to physiotherapy services in a semi-rural township in South Africa
(2023)
Background: There is a significant rise in the incidence of stroke worldwide. It is common for people with stroke (PWS) to sustain physical impairments and subsequently require rehabilitation services such as physiotherapy ...
A coordinated response to bullying of and among children with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities within the context of the child protection system
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
This study responded to the identified need for research to develop a guideline for a coordinated Child Protection Service (CPS) response to protect children with mild to moderate Intellectual Disabilities (IDs) from ...
An assessment of the laws that aim to protect employees against discrimination on the ground of disability: a comparative analysis
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
South Africa is known for its history of unfair discrimination. During apartheid persons with disabilities, women and black people were subjected to unfair discrimination and research shows that this is still the case. ...