A Home For Art

To build up an atmosphere of art creation about the whole Art Center and to create a place of interest for all the population, old and young- through the creative power of the young ..

New Collegiate You

Some changes will be temporary changes. That is because college life could be termed an artificial circumstance. All situations are not real; that is, social life is not indicative of that common in everyday life, pressures of time and effort are far accelerated, and one\u27s community of friends is more select than can be found in most real-life situations. Therefore, some of the customs and practices which you will adopt in college will fade as the newness of the leather-bound degree wears off

Time and Motion are Wasting!

Little did Mrs. Gilbreth of Cheaper by the Dozen probably ever think that the kitchen efficiency methods she taught her daughters would ever be taught over television. But it\u27s been done on our own Iowa State College campus

Gifts by You

If you forgot to start knitting that sweater soon enough-or didn\u27t save enough of you: summer\u27s earnings-or don\u27t have success shopping during Christmas vacation-or want something extra-special to give to those extra special somebodies on your Christmas gift list (Don\u27t we all fit in here?)..

Decision Dilemma

Click click zip zing- whew! what a fast rate of speed at which we\u27re living! And how our brains must race to keep up with this accelerated existence! We seem to be able to cram much more living into a lifetime than was possible in the good old days. Why? Because more and quicker decisions are demanded of us every minute

Tearoom Goes Modern

You have been eating the same food at the same dining hall for half a quarter. Now you crave something new and different. And that can be found in the newly decorated Institution Management Tearoom

An ethnography of adults living with aphasia in Khayelitsha, South Africa

This paper presents findings of an ethnography of adults with aphasia in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. Khayelitsha is an urban black township characterised by poverty, violence, limited resources and a language and culture different to the standard setting of healthcare in South Africa. We present five case accounts that highlight the challenges of living as they relate to support networks; frameworks of interpretation of communication loss and healthcare experiences. In doing so, we hope to highlight the influence of social, political and economic circumstances on aphasia and approach questions regarding management of aphasia where illness is understood within a spiritual framework

An ethnography of adults living with aphasia in Khayelitsha.

This thesis is concerned with the experience of aphasia in Khayelitsha, a township on the outskirts of Cape Town characterised by poverty, violence, limited resources and a culture and language that differs from the setting of most speech and language services in South Africa. It is based on three years of intermittent fieldwork that entailed participant observation of the everyday life of five adults living with aphasia and interviews with participants, kin and healthcare workers in various settings. Grounded in sociocultural theory, this thesis has aimed to provide an ethnographic account of cultural frameworks of interpretation of communication impairment following stroke and of the daily reality of life for adults living with aphasia in this setting. An exploration of causal notions in this setting provided interesting commentary on social and cultural processes and how people, caught up in these processes, search for meaning and for cure. Participants entertained plural notions of causation of aphasia and explored numerous therapeutic avenues. The wide variation in causal notions included biomedical causes, social and behavioural determinants, and the influences of supernatural powers, such as witches and ancestors. Similarly participants experienced aphasia through multiple healing systems, including traditional, biomedical and religious therapy options. All however seemed to be ambiguous sources of help. Whilst encounters with the health system presented serious challenges to participants, traditional and religious avenues for help were obscured by a burgeoning and not always ethical open market offering miracle cures. An articulation of the circumstances of this group of adults provided further commentary on the influence of the social context on aphasia. In a context where sociopolitical processes have had a disintegrating effect on social cohesion, questions of support, care and security were of primary concern. Prejudices towards the elderly and women were more acutely felt and vulnerability, isolation, insecurity and fluidity of circumstance emerged as overarching themes. The central argument in this thesis is that the genesis of these experiences can be found in contextual factors in Khayelitsha, such as poverty, inequality, urbanisation and changing cultural paradigms. These emerging themes highlight the disjunctions between the medical alignment of the discipline of speech language therapy in South Africa and the capacity for socially-engaged practice. They also highlight the socio-cultural complexity of the experience of aphasia, specifically the influences of culture and poverty. There is thus theoretical and clinical relevance in using anthropological objectives to explore the world of the adult living with aphasia and the interface between context and service provision. Interventions and healthcare communications that will make a meaningful difference to adults with aphasia in a setting such as Khayelitsha are proposed

The Iowa Homemaker vol.30, no.7

Thoughts for 1951, Nancy Voss, page 3 Rugs, Carol McCready, page 4 Stop That Cold, Pat Pumphrey, page 5 Use Your Sense When Choosing Scents, Harriet LaRue, page 6 What’s New, Jane Ann Steele, page 7 Family Relationships, Barbara Allen, page 8 “How To Lay a Nest Egg”, Janet Sutherland, page 10 Here’s An Idea, Carol Dee Legg, page 12 Magazines on the Shelf, Joyce Roos, page 14 Trends, Margaret Schaeffer, page 1

The Iowa Homemaker vol.30, no.4

Borrowing Is Touchy Business, Floramae Gates, page 3 Career in Television, Patricia Binder, page 4 Formals Men Prefer, Nancy Butler, page 5 Glasses for your Tastebuds, Mary Kay Pitzer, page 6 Questions College Physicians Have to Answer – reprint from June issue of Good Housekeeping, page 7 What’s New, Jane Steele, page 8 Tearoom Goes Modern, Carol Dee Legg, page 12 Ideas From Students and AHEA Convention, page 14 Gunda’s Angel Pie, Harriet LaRue, page 1