Prof. Dr. Juanita Bornman

Juan Bornman is the past president of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC) (President: 2020-2022) as well as professor in the Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.  Her recent research has focussed on ensuring access to justice through the use of AAC. She has more than 100 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) and the Stals-prize for multi-and interdisciplinary team research by the South African Academy for Science and Art (2021).