Theresa Lorenzo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1400091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Theresa Lorenzo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Theresa |
| FAMILY NAME | Lorenzo |
| SIGNATURE | LORENZO T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6523-8189 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Benefits of surf therapy for children with disabilities in South Africa
The case story of Rowan illustrates how an inclusive surf therapy programme supports the health, development, and relational wellbeing of children with disabilities by reshaping their worldview and strengthening self-confidence. The programme enabled the mastery of new skills that extended beyond the ocean into their homes, schools, and broader ecological systems. This study advances surf therapy research by offering rare longitudinal evidence fr…
An Ubuntu approach to disability and inclusive development for women with disabilities
Harnessing the power of learning to listen deeply to each other's stories facilitates the interdependence and spirituality of Ubuntu to create supportive, inclusive development
How can you be a doctor? Ableism in the workplace
The journal is published for the purpose of advancing scholarship in disability studies and rehabilitation sciences in a uniquely African context. Widely read by scholars, professionals and students, it encourages scholarly exchange between all disciplines and academics from low, middle and high-income countries to work towards the improvement of human development and its practices across the continent
Rehabilitation care workers address environmental factors with persons with disabilities
The journal is published for the purpose of advancing scholarship in disability studies and rehabilitation sciences in a uniquely African context. Widely read by scholars, professionals and students, it encourages scholarly exchange between all disciplines and academics from low, middle and high-income countries to work towards the improvement of human development and its practices across the continent
Deep Down in Our Hearts
An understanding of disability inclusive development in a country in transition is necessary if women are to access opportunities for social, economic and political development. This article explores a spirituality of disability as a participatory strategy for equalizing opportunities for women with disability's development. Qualitative research was utilized for a participatory action research study with women with disabilities over a two year pe…
Creating inclusive Performing Arts practices for development of youth with disabilities
Exposure to the Performing Arts provides important skills development and social opportunities for disabled youth. It is up to the 'keepers' of the Performing Arts - those in administration and management - to realign the Performing Arts in a way that can best benefit everyone
Community-based workers’ capacity to develop inclusive livelihoods for youth with disabilities in Botswana
Community-based workers have the capacity to provide valuable evidence and design strategy to facilitate the socio-economic inclusion of youth with disabilities. They are particularly adept at intervening at local levels but do not have sufficient confidence or capacity to mobilise supportive community structures or to exert influence at the level of policy formulation, decision-making and implementation
A Situational Mapping Overview of Training Programmes for Community-Based Rehabilitation Workers in Southern Africa
In 2018, the United Nations global report showed that people with disabilities, who make up 15% of the worlds' population, have poorer health and rehabilitation access (SDG 3). Without improving the needed person-centered health and rehabilitation services at household level, SDG 3 cannot be achieved. This includes addressing human resource shortages through training multi-skilled community based rehabilitation workers (CRWs) to build rural workf…
Enhancing public sectors’ capacity for inclusive economic participation of disabled youth in rural communities
An appreciative process of facilitating a deeper understanding of the needs of disabled youth would assist service providers to reconceptualise disability within an expansive framework of equal opportunities and active citizenship
Enabling disability inclusive practices within the University of Cape Town curriculum
Disability should be valued, and integrated into the curriculum in a structured manner as a perspective on diversity with which to interrogate our beliefs about ourselves and society. Theorising on disability is needed, as well as the unique perspectives that emerge across interdisciplinary boundaries, especially within the African context
The complexity of rural contexts experienced by community disability workers in three southern African countries
An understanding of rural communities is fundamental to effective community-based rehabilitation work with persons with disabilities. By removing barriers to community participation, persons with disabilities are enabled to satisfy their fundamental human needs. However, insufficient attention has been paid to the challenges that rural community disability workers (CDWs) face in trying to realise these objectives. This qualitative interpretive st…
Community rehabilitation workers as catalysts for disability
This paper explores access to health and education for disabled youth in sites with and without community rehabilitation workers (CRWs). A cross-sectional survey using a structured questionnaire was undertaken in nine sites in South Africa, and a snowball sample of 523 disabled youths of both sexes, aged between 18 and 35 years, was selected. The survey found that a significantly larger proportion of disabled youth living in sites with CRWs were …
An exploratory analysis of community-based disability workers’ potential to alleviate poverty and promote social inclusion of people with disabilities in three Southern African countries
This article draws on accounts by community-based disability workers (CDWs) of their life and work experiences in resource-limited rural communities in Botswana, Malawi and South Africa. Using the World Health Organisation’s community-based rehabilitation (CBR) matrix and the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals as analytic frameworks, the article explores CDWs’ potential to contribute to improving the lives and increasing the levels of s…
We've moved away from disability as a health issue, it's a human rights issue’
The South African Constitution (no. 108, 1996) enshrines the rights of disabled people to equality – an almost unprecedented attainment achieved by disabled people. Ten years on this paper reflects on what this has meant for disabled people in South Africa. It uses secondary sources and draws on the work and research experience of the authors. Human rights are viewed as a bundle of interrelated, interdependent and mutually supporting civil and po…
No African renaissance without disabled women
The African Renaissance is upon us. Those who have eyes to see, let them see. Disabled women who live in wooden shacks in the peri-urban areas of Khayelitsha in Cape Town, South Africa, participated in storytelling workshops over a two-and-a-half-year period. They shared experiences of what helped or hindered their social and economic development since becoming disabled. The workshops were part of a participatory action research (PAR) study of th…
We've moved away from disability as a health issue, it's a human rights issue’
The South African Constitution (no. 108, 1996) enshrines the rights of disabled people to equality – an almost unprecedented attainment achieved by disabled people. Ten years on this paper reflects on what this has meant for disabled people in South Africa. It uses secondary sources and draws on the work and research experience of the authors. Human rights are viewed as a bundle of interrelated, interdependent and mutually supporting civil and po…
An exploratory analysis of community-based disability workers’ potential to alleviate poverty and promote social inclusion of people with disabilities in three Southern African countries
This article draws on accounts by community-based disability workers (CDWs) of their life and work experiences in resource-limited rural communities in Botswana, Malawi and South Africa. Using the World Health Organisation’s community-based rehabilitation (CBR) matrix and the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals as analytic frameworks, the article explores CDWs’ potential to contribute to improving the lives and increasing the levels of s…
No African renaissance without disabled women
The African Renaissance is upon us. Those who have eyes to see, let them see. Disabled women who live in wooden shacks in the peri-urban areas of Khayelitsha in Cape Town, South Africa, participated in storytelling workshops over a two-and-a-half-year period. They shared experiences of what helped or hindered their social and economic development since becoming disabled. The workshops were part of a participatory action research (PAR) study of th…
No African renaissance without disabled women
The African Renaissance is upon us. Those who have eyes to see, let them see. Disabled women who live in wooden shacks in the peri-urban areas of Khayelitsha in Cape Town, South Africa, participated in storytelling workshops over a two-and-a-half-year period. They shared experiences of what helped or hindered their social and economic development since becoming disabled. The workshops were part of a participatory action research (PAR) study of th…
We've moved away from disability as a health issue, it's a human rights issue’
The South African Constitution (no. 108, 1996) enshrines the rights of disabled people to equality – an almost unprecedented attainment achieved by disabled people. Ten years on this paper reflects on what this has meant for disabled people in South Africa. It uses secondary sources and draws on the work and research experience of the authors. Human rights are viewed as a bundle of interrelated, interdependent and mutually supporting civil and po…
An exploratory analysis of community-based disability workers’ potential to alleviate poverty and promote social inclusion of people with disabilities in three Southern African countries
This article draws on accounts by community-based disability workers (CDWs) of their life and work experiences in resource-limited rural communities in Botswana, Malawi and South Africa. Using the World Health Organisation’s community-based rehabilitation (CBR) matrix and the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals as analytic frameworks, the article explores CDWs’ potential to contribute to improving the lives and increasing the levels of s…
Enabling disability inclusive practices within the University of Cape Town curriculum
Disability should be valued, and integrated into the curriculum in a structured manner as a perspective on diversity with which to interrogate our beliefs about ourselves and society. Theorising on disability is needed, as well as the unique perspectives that emerge across interdisciplinary boundaries, especially within the African context
The complexity of rural contexts experienced by community disability workers in three southern African countries
An understanding of rural communities is fundamental to effective community-based rehabilitation work with persons with disabilities. By removing barriers to community participation, persons with disabilities are enabled to satisfy their fundamental human needs. However, insufficient attention has been paid to the challenges that rural community disability workers (CDWs) face in trying to realise these objectives. This qualitative interpretive st…
Community rehabilitation workers as catalysts for disability
This paper explores access to health and education for disabled youth in sites with and without community rehabilitation workers (CRWs). A cross-sectional survey using a structured questionnaire was undertaken in nine sites in South Africa, and a snowball sample of 523 disabled youths of both sexes, aged between 18 and 35 years, was selected. The survey found that a significantly larger proportion of disabled youth living in sites with CRWs were …
Enhancing public sectors’ capacity for inclusive economic participation of disabled youth in rural communities
An appreciative process of facilitating a deeper understanding of the needs of disabled youth would assist service providers to reconceptualise disability within an expansive framework of equal opportunities and active citizenship
A Situational Mapping Overview of Training Programmes for Community-Based Rehabilitation Workers in Southern Africa
In 2018, the United Nations global report showed that people with disabilities, who make up 15% of the worlds' population, have poorer health and rehabilitation access (SDG 3). Without improving the needed person-centered health and rehabilitation services at household level, SDG 3 cannot be achieved. This includes addressing human resource shortages through training multi-skilled community based rehabilitation workers (CRWs) to build rural workf…
Deep Down in Our Hearts
An understanding of disability inclusive development in a country in transition is necessary if women are to access opportunities for social, economic and political development. This article explores a spirituality of disability as a participatory strategy for equalizing opportunities for women with disability's development. Qualitative research was utilized for a participatory action research study with women with disabilities over a two year pe…
Creating inclusive Performing Arts practices for development of youth with disabilities
Exposure to the Performing Arts provides important skills development and social opportunities for disabled youth. It is up to the 'keepers' of the Performing Arts - those in administration and management - to realign the Performing Arts in a way that can best benefit everyone
Community-based workers’ capacity to develop inclusive livelihoods for youth with disabilities in Botswana
Community-based workers have the capacity to provide valuable evidence and design strategy to facilitate the socio-economic inclusion of youth with disabilities. They are particularly adept at intervening at local levels but do not have sufficient confidence or capacity to mobilise supportive community structures or to exert influence at the level of policy formulation, decision-making and implementation
An Ubuntu approach to disability and inclusive development for women with disabilities
Harnessing the power of learning to listen deeply to each other's stories facilitates the interdependence and spirituality of Ubuntu to create supportive, inclusive development
How can you be a doctor? Ableism in the workplace
The journal is published for the purpose of advancing scholarship in disability studies and rehabilitation sciences in a uniquely African context. Widely read by scholars, professionals and students, it encourages scholarly exchange between all disciplines and academics from low, middle and high-income countries to work towards the improvement of human development and its practices across the continent
Rehabilitation care workers address environmental factors with persons with disabilities
The journal is published for the purpose of advancing scholarship in disability studies and rehabilitation sciences in a uniquely African context. Widely read by scholars, professionals and students, it encourages scholarly exchange between all disciplines and academics from low, middle and high-income countries to work towards the improvement of human development and its practices across the continent
Benefits of surf therapy for children with disabilities in South Africa
The case story of Rowan illustrates how an inclusive surf therapy programme supports the health, development, and relational wellbeing of children with disabilities by reshaping their worldview and strengthening self-confidence. The programme enabled the mastery of new skills that extended beyond the ocean into their homes, schools, and broader ecological systems. This study advances surf therapy research by offering rare longitudinal evidence fr…
Sociology (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (6 works) · Family and Disability Support Research (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Inclusion (mineral (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Medicine (5 works)