Juan Bornman

Juan Bornman (PhD) a speech-language therapist and audiologist and holds an appointment as a Professor in the Division of Speech- Language and Hearing Therapy, Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Stellenbosch University. Her primary research interests include augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and severe communication disability using a human rights-based approach towards communication rehabilitation with a sustainable, contextually relevant framework.

After working in private practice as an audiologist in the early 1990’s she joined academia and held the Directorship of the Centre for AAC for a decade (2009 -2019) after which she became the President of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC) (2020-2022). She has more than 120 publications: peer-reviewed journal papers, book chapters and four books as well as numerous presentations locally and internationally on the topic of AAC.

She is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSaF) and was awarded a fellowship by ISAAC for exemplary work as well as the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Georg Forster Research Award for internationally outstanding researchers from developing and transition countries (2021). In 2021 she was awarded the Stals-prize for multi-and interdisciplinary team research by the South African Academy for Sciences and Art.

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