Exploring speech therapy games with children on the autism spectrum
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Author(s)
Picard, Rosalind W.
Lane, Joseph K.
El Kaliouby, Rana
Goodwin, Matthew
Hoque, Mohammed Ehasanul
Date Issued
September 2009
Journal
10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2009, September 6, 2009 - September 10
Publisher
International Speech Communication Association
Citation
Hoque, Mohammed et al. "Exploring Speech Therapy Games with Children on the Autism Spectrum." 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2009, September 6, 2009 - September 10, 2009.
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Abstract
Individuals on the autism spectrum often have difficulties producing intelligible speech with either high or low speech rate, and atypical pitch and/or amplitude affect. In this study, we present a novel intervention towards customizing speech enabled games to help them produce intelligible speech. In this approach, we clinically and computationally identify the areas of speech production difficulties of our participants. We provide an interactive and customized interface for the participants to meaningfully manipulate the prosodic aspects of their speech. Over the course of 12 months, we have conducted several pilots to set up the experimental design, developed a suite of games and audio processing algorithms for prosodic analysis of speech. Preliminary results demonstrate our intervention being engaging and effective for our participants.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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