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The project proposal targets interdisciplinary research (computer science, psychology, electronics) - having as main objective
the development of methods, models, algorithms, System on Chip architectures with regards to the elaboration and implementation of a complete system addressing the therapy of dyslalia affecting pre scholars, in a
personalized and user centered manner. We are considering the development of a complete system composed of the logopaed's desktop PC and a mobile device
with a friendly easy to use interface for the pre scholar to work with during his home activities (serving as a homework device).The project addresses the number of 10% of children with age between 4
and 7 that, according to the statistics, present different variations of speech impairments. Although these impairments do not create major difficulties concerning common communication, it has been noticed that problems
are likely to appear affecting negatively the child's personality as well as his social environment. The objectives we are targeting are as follows:
§ the development of a new evaluation methodology and of a therapy guide that will allow for mixing
classical methods with the adjuvant procedures of the audio-visual system
§ initial and during therapy
evaluation of volunteer children and identification of a modality of standardizing their progresses and regresses (at the level of the physiological and behavioral parameters)
§ rigorous formalization of an evaluation methodology and development of a database that will contain a set of exercises and the
obtained results;
§ the development of an expert system for the personalized therapy of speech impairments
that will allow for designing a training path for pronunciation, individualized according to the defect category, previous experience and the child's therapy previous evolution;
§ the development of a mobile embedded device based on the System on Chip architecture for personalized speech therapy;
§ the design of a 3D virtual model for the phono-articulatory apparatus
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technological transfer providing a feedback according to the age and exercises that the child solves as well as to the results he obtains
An important aspect during the therapy of the speech impairments is represented by the child's interaction with the system along as he exercises and progresses. For this reason, the development of a 3D
simulator of the phono-articulatory apparatus with the possibility of positioning of the elements that play an important part in phonation as well as the generation of the corresponding sounds, represent an important
objective of the project. The novelty of this simulator was confirmed by the Laboratoire d"Informatique Fondamentale de Lille, and Institut Arbeit und Tecknik Germany, that expressed their intention to collaborate to
the development of the project as well as for submitting a proposal for the FP7 research program. |
