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In most countries, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is rarely understood by a number of individuals including educational stakeholders particularly teachers as they are the ones to handle children with autism in school context particularly in mainstream classrooms. While the number of children diagnosed with autism continues to grow worldwide, it is exceedingly important that teachers have the foundation of knowledge necessary to identify and teach these children in mainstream schools. The...

Background: Factors driving differences in disease burden between African American and White people with multiple sclerosis (pwMS) remain unclear.Here, we explored whether differences in disability outcomes could be observed after controlling for major sociodemographic factors and comorbidities, and assessed the presence of a possible interaction between MS and race.Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 120 pwMS within 6 years from disease onset and 82 healthy controls between 18 and 70...

This chapter seeks to identify the main factors influencing university students’ satisfaction with online learning and their experience with the opportunities and challenges of using online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. A survey of three universities resulted in a response rate of 44.5% of questionnaires that were subjected to confirmatory factor analysis and Maximum Likelihood estimation using structural equation modelling. The main factors identified and validated through...

Lower- and middle-income countries (LAMICs) are under-resourced and have limited intervention services for children with developmental differences and their families. A logical method to address service gaps within resource-scarce contexts is to train caregivers as interventionists, specifically using empirically-supported parent-mediated Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions (P-M NDBIs; Kasari et al., 2010; Ingersoll & Wainer, 2013). The study implemented the first P-M NDBI in...

Abstract Climate change represents a major existential threat facing the global community, and it has already begun to affect human health in a multitude of ways. This article highlights and discusses the implications that climate change has already had and is expected to have for dermatologists. A number of conditions are affected by climate changes. The distribution and frequencies of infections have altered due to changes in the causative organisms. Inflammatory conditions like atopic...

Preconceived ideas in South Africa about the unsuitability of languages other than English to ensure equitable and quality school education continue to elicit reluctance to apply policies dealing with language in education in a way that benefits the majority of learners. This observation derives from a critical appraisal of documentation related to comprehensive studies on language in education commissioned by government and educational planning initiatives over the past two decades. The...

This paper contributes to scholarship on adaptive water governance (AWG), following policy reforms in South Africa, through a focus on systemic feedbacks for learning and adaptation as critical aspects of AWG. We draw insights from three innovative and evolving water governance experiments. In 1998 South Africa adopted integrated water resources management (IWRM) as a transformative approach for achieving an equitable, sustainable, and decentralized stakeholder-centered water resources...

Like elsewhere in the world, students' use of social networking sites (SNSs) in higher education institutions in Tanzania has dramatically increased in recent years – something which has called for policies and guidelines to guide its proper usage. This study examined the effects of policies on the use of SNSs on postgraduate knowledge sharing in the four northern Tanzanian higher education institutions that were chosen for the study. The purpose was to examine the effect of such policies on...

Ponte Academic JournalJun 2023, Volume 79, Issue 6 FACTORS THAT MILITATE AGAINST DEMOCRATIC SECONDARY SCHOOL GOVERNANCE IN ZAMBIAAuthor(s): Onoriode Collins Potokri ,Eunifridah SimuyabaJ. Ponte - Jun 2023 - Volume 79 - Issue 6 doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2023.6.5 Abstract:The Zambian National Decentralisation Policy of 2002 calls for the active participation of various stakeholders in the governance of all government ministries. In education, this was achieved through the creation of school...

Maritime education and training (MET) institutions have experienced major changes in their structure, and provision of services over the past four decades. These changes have come about partly due to national and international requirements concerning the seafarers’ standards of competence and partly due to financial regimes under which these institutions are funded, forcing them to diversify into other areas and activities, such as consultancy, research, shore-based training programmes and...

This study sought to understand whether the theoretical components of the curriculum prepared students for clinical practice training in the Bachelor of Health Sciences (BHSc) in Clinical Technology program at the Durban University of Technology.Two samples were recruited, namely, academics and students using non-probability sampling methods. The first sample comprised 13 students, and the second sample included four academics, involved in teaching and supervising the placement of students...

Developing economies such as South Africa face numerous challenges to achieve sustainability within higher education (HE). This study examined the key challenges facing leaders within HE institutions (HEIs) in South Africa, as they aim to contribute significantly towards the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 4 related to quality education. Using a qualitative research design, the study surveyed 75 leaders in various South African HEIs using an online survey platform. The findings...

The Six BRICKS® initiative is a teaching and learning method that encourages focused engagement in the classroom by all learners, from the foundation phase to adulthood. By using six simple, colourful DUPLO® bricks, an element of play is introduced into a situation that inevitably leads to all individuals focusing and interacting. This is one of the major contributions to all teaching and learning disciplines and promotes the audience to learn with enjoyment, enthusiasm and concentration....

This dataset presents perceived values and socioeconomic indicators collected in Siaya, a rural county in Kenya, between 2022. The data was obtained from 300 surveys and interviews conducted in six sub-counties across eleven villages. Socioeconomic data were collected with a special focus on climate change vulnerability. Information on housing, health, water accessibility and usage, electricity accessibility and usage, extreme weather events, community service, and information accessibility...

The complex interaction between biological and social factors challenges measuring human behavior. Language has been a crucial source of information that mirrors inner processes like thoughts. The development of a novel computational strategy that helps to understand language needs to consider social factors that could also impact human behavior. Ten years ago, I developed a computational approach based on graph theory to measure structural aspects of the narrative's mental organization...