South African speech-language and hearing (SLH) professions are facing significant
challenges in the provision of clinical services to patients from a context that is culturally and …

Over the past few decades, there has been an increasing shift toward emphasizing the
importance of the child's family taking an active role in the habilitation process through family …

Background: Effective communication between the patients and radiographers can be a
daunting task in a multicultural, multilingual environment. With 11 official languages, South …

According to the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA, 2018), early
intervention services following diagnosis of a hearing impairment must be family-centred …

This book is an original scholarly book that introduces the concept of preventive audiology,
with a specific focus on the African context, which is in line with the South African re …

Background Decolonisation of the Speech-Language and Hearing (SLH) professions in
South Africa to be Afrocentric is a current focus. These professions continue to hold white …

ABSTRACT Progress of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) services within the
South African context lags behind that made by high-income countries internationally …

This study explored the experience of English as an instruction medium by South African
Speech-Language and Hearing (SLH) students whose first language is not English (African …

The success of any preventive healthcare programme is reliant on a functional healthcare
system. Within this system of care, healthcare professionals, including audiologists, can only …

Health literacy and low health literacy have received increased attention due to their
association with poor understanding of health information, and consequently negative …