Dysarthria affects approximately 46 million people worldwide, with three million individuals residing in the US. Clinical intervention by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in the United States is supplemented by high quality research, clinical expertise, and state of the art technology, supporting the overarching goal of improved communication. Unfortunately, many individuals do not have access to such care, leaving them with a persisting inability to communicate. Telemedicine, along with the growing use of mobile devices to augment clinical practice, provides the impetus for the development of remote, mobile applications to augment the work of SLPs. The proposed application will record speech samples and provide a variety of derived calculations, novel and traditional, to assess the integrity of speech production, including: vowel space area, assessment of an individual’s pathology fingerprint, and identification of which parameters of the intelligibility disorder are most disrupted (e.g., prosody, vocal quality). The individualized selection of desired information for incorporation into a report template will be available. The reports will mimic those generated manually by SLPs today. The automation of this assessment will allow SLPs to treat patients remotely, allowing for the widespread, worldwide impact of high skilled assessment, something currently lacking in underdeveloped parts of the world.
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November 01 2013
Speech assist: An augmentative tool for practice in speech-language pathology
Rene L. Utianski;
Rene L. Utianski
Dept. of Speech and Hearing Sci., Arizona State Univ., Coor Hall 2211, 10th St. and Myrtle, P.O. Box 870102, Tempe, AZ 85287-0102, [email protected]
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Steven Sandoval;
Steven Sandoval
Dept. of Elec. Eng., Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ
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Nicole Lehrer;
Nicole Lehrer
Dept. of Arts, Media, and Eng., Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ
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Visar Berisha;
Visar Berisha
Dept. of Elec. Eng., Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ
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Julie Liss
Julie Liss
Dept. of Speech and Hearing Sci., Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ
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J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 134, 4134 (2013)
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Rene L. Utianski, Steven Sandoval, Nicole Lehrer, Visar Berisha, Julie Liss; Speech assist: An augmentative tool for practice in speech-language pathology. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 November 2013; 134 (5_Supplement): 4134. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4831186
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