Monicca T Bhuda
Biographic Data
| ID | 5759490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monicca T Bhuda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monicca T |
| FAMILY NAME | Bhuda |
| SIGNATURE | BHUDA M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mpumalanga |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8506-9562 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Instrument adaptation for measuring early child language development across multilingual and sociocultural diverse settings
This article describes the adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) for South Africa's 11 official spoken languages. The CDI is a parent-report tool that measures early language development from 8 to 30 months. We developed cross-linguistically comparable CDIs, representing two distinct language families, West Germanic and southern Bantu, using a common protocol. We describe our approach to item construction and…
Resurgence and Revalorization of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the Contemporary Society
A Crosslinguistic Study of Gesture and Lexical Development in South African Infants
This study compares early gesture and lexical development in 1,199 infants (0;8–1;6) across South Africa’s 11 official spoken languages using the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory: Words and Gestures. We examined the effect of age, sex, ecological (urban-rural) setting, and maternal level of education (MLE) on early language development. Age was a significant predictor of gesture, comprehension, and production. There was no evid…
African Traditional Medicine as a Covid-19 treatment and the South African Government response
As South Africa faced the new dawn of COVID-19 pandemic, questions were raised regarding the utilization of African traditional medicine as a treatment of the illness. Madagascar was viewed by African people as a pioneer to regard and declare Artemisia as treatment for COVID-19 and developed products known as Africa following its breakthrough in traditional herbal cure for COVID-19 known as COVID Organics or CVO to be used by their citizens and t…
A place for traditional and customary practices in funerals during and post Covid-19
President Cyril Ramaphosa and his government declared a National State of Disaster, and banned large gatherings to help contain the spread of coronavirus on March 21, 2020. Less than a week after he banned large gatherings to help contain the spread of coronavirus. Families were also encouraged to bury their deceased loved ones as soon as possible after they leave the mortuary. This left families with little to no time to grieve and execute certa…
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A place for traditional and customary practices in funerals during and post Covid-19
President Cyril Ramaphosa and his government declared a National State of Disaster, and banned large gatherings to help contain the spread of coronavirus on March 21, 2020. Less than a week after he banned large gatherings to help contain the spread of coronavirus. Families were also encouraged to bury their deceased loved ones as soon as possible after they leave the mortuary. This left families with little to no time to grieve and execute certa…
African Traditional Medicine as a Covid-19 treatment and the South African Government response
As South Africa faced the new dawn of COVID-19 pandemic, questions were raised regarding the utilization of African traditional medicine as a treatment of the illness. Madagascar was viewed by African people as a pioneer to regard and declare Artemisia as treatment for COVID-19 and developed products known as Africa following its breakthrough in traditional herbal cure for COVID-19 known as COVID Organics or CVO to be used by their citizens and t…
Resurgence and Revalorization of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the Contemporary Society
A Crosslinguistic Study of Gesture and Lexical Development in South African Infants
This study compares early gesture and lexical development in 1,199 infants (0;8–1;6) across South Africa’s 11 official spoken languages using the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory: Words and Gestures. We examined the effect of age, sex, ecological (urban-rural) setting, and maternal level of education (MLE) on early language development. Age was a significant predictor of gesture, comprehension, and production. There was no evid…
Instrument adaptation for measuring early child language development across multilingual and sociocultural diverse settings
This article describes the adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) for South Africa's 11 official spoken languages. The CDI is a parent-report tool that measures early language development from 8 to 30 months. We developed cross-linguistically comparable CDIs, representing two distinct language families, West Germanic and southern Bantu, using a common protocol. We describe our approach to item construction and…
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (2 works) · Child development (2 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (2 works) · Government (linguistics (2 works) · Language acquisition (2 works) · Language development (2 works) · Language Development and Disorders (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 (2 works)