Speech Therapy Mobile Application for Speech and Language Impairment Children
Speech and language impairment (SLI) is a communication disorder when a person has difficulties to produce speech sounds correctly and understand others. Children with SLI need speech therapy to help them improve their communication skills in order to communicate effectively with others. Due to...
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| description | Speech and language impairment (SLI) is a
communication disorder when a person has difficulties to
produce speech sounds correctly and understand others.
Children with SLI need speech therapy to help them improve
their communication skills in order to communicate
effectively with others. Due to the lack of speech therapist in
the state, children are mainly waste valuable learning time
while waiting for therapy and these speech therapy sessions
are usually done only on a one-to-one basis within a block
period. Recent studies showed that mobile technologies may
work as an educational tool which can help children to learn.
Hence, a local prototype of mobile speech therapy application
was developed to be appealing for pre-school children of age
3 to 6 with SLI and will be used as a supplementary activity
which can be used during a speech therapy session or at
home. In this paper, we present the results of a six months
intervention experiment with SLI children. We have adapted
the heuristic evaluation for evaluating the usability of the
local prototype mobile speech therapy application. The
results of our study shows those children and their parents
gave positive responses towards the mobile application, also
helps in improving the children skills in producing correct
sounds. |
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| spelling | unimas-155352017-05-22T06:27:38Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/15535/ Speech Therapy Mobile Application for Speech and Language Impairment Children Jacey-Lynn, Minoi Carolyne, Alphonsus Tommy H Social Sciences (General) RJ Pediatrics T Technology (General) Speech and language impairment (SLI) is a communication disorder when a person has difficulties to produce speech sounds correctly and understand others. Children with SLI need speech therapy to help them improve their communication skills in order to communicate effectively with others. Due to the lack of speech therapist in the state, children are mainly waste valuable learning time while waiting for therapy and these speech therapy sessions are usually done only on a one-to-one basis within a block period. Recent studies showed that mobile technologies may work as an educational tool which can help children to learn. Hence, a local prototype of mobile speech therapy application was developed to be appealing for pre-school children of age 3 to 6 with SLI and will be used as a supplementary activity which can be used during a speech therapy session or at home. In this paper, we present the results of a six months intervention experiment with SLI children. We have adapted the heuristic evaluation for evaluating the usability of the local prototype mobile speech therapy application. The results of our study shows those children and their parents gave positive responses towards the mobile application, also helps in improving the children skills in producing correct sounds. IEEE 2017 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/15535/7/Speech%20Therapy%20by%20Carolyne%202016%20%28abstract%29.pdf Jacey-Lynn, Minoi and Carolyne, Alphonsus Tommy (2017) Speech Therapy Mobile Application for Speech and Language Impairment Children. IECBES 2016 - IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences. pp. 199-203. ISSN ISBN: 978-146737791-1 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313458673_Speech_therapy_mobile_application_for_speech_and_language_impairment_children DOI: 10.1109/IECBES.2016.7843442 |
| spellingShingle | H Social Sciences (General) RJ Pediatrics T Technology (General) Jacey-Lynn, Minoi Carolyne, Alphonsus Tommy Speech Therapy Mobile Application for Speech and Language Impairment Children |
| title | Speech Therapy Mobile Application for Speech and Language Impairment Children |
| title_full | Speech Therapy Mobile Application for Speech and Language Impairment Children |
| title_fullStr | Speech Therapy Mobile Application for Speech and Language Impairment Children |
| title_full_unstemmed | Speech Therapy Mobile Application for Speech and Language Impairment Children |
| title_short | Speech Therapy Mobile Application for Speech and Language Impairment Children |
| title_sort | speech therapy mobile application for speech and language impairment children |
| topic | H Social Sciences (General) RJ Pediatrics T Technology (General) |
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