Janet De Picciotto

• Consultant at The American School in Switzerland

The majority of clinical interviews in South Africa take place across cultural and linguistic boundaries and are often mediated by a third party whose role is little understood. This paper will describe a study undertaken in an audiology clinic to characterise features of cultural brokerage in interpreted audiological consultations. Data included r...

This study investigated verbal fluency abilities in a sub-group of Zulu-English bilingual speakers (n=35). Subjects were required to generate a list of animal names in English-only, Zulu-only, and then in bilingual mode, where both languages could be used. Results were analysed in terms of raw scores and the influence of language mode factors, as w...

This study investigated verbal fluency abilities in 30 healthy elderly English-Afrikaans bilingual speakers, and 6 bilingual subjects with Alzheimer's disease. Three 1-min semantic verbal fluency tasks (animals) were obtained in the bilingual mode, Afrikaans and English. Results were analysed in terms of total correct, and semantic clusters. There...

This study investigated the semantic verbal fluency (VF) abilities of non-neurologically impaired (NNI) Zulu speaking subjects in order to obtain normative data for this population. The data were analysed in terms of the total number of words generated in one minute, the number of words generated over four fifteen-second time periods and the strate...

This study investigated the prevalence of subjectively reported swallowing problems in a group of normal ageing subjects. Twenty-five retirement village residents were included in the sample. A cross-sectional descriptive survey research design was utilised. Data was obtained through the administration of a devised interview schedule. The prevalenc...