Exploring speech therapy games with children on the autism spectrum
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....
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International Speech Communication Association
2010
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| author | Picard, Rosalind W. Lane, Joseph K. El Kaliouby, Rana Goodwin, Matthew Hoque, Mohammed Ehasanul |
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| description | 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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| spelling | mit-1721.1/565802022-10-01T01:48:46Z Exploring speech therapy games with children on the autism spectrum Picard, Rosalind W. Lane, Joseph K. El Kaliouby, Rana Goodwin, Matthew Hoque, Mohammed Ehasanul Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Picard, Rosalind W. Picard, Rosalind W. Lane, Joseph K. El Kaliouby, Rana Goodwin, Matthew Hoque, Mohammed Ehasanul 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. Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation 2010-07-15T18:22:00Z 2010-07-15T18:22:00Z 2009-09 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper Tue-Ses3-P3 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/56580 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. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5661-0022 en_US http://www.interspeech2009.org/conference/ 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2009, September 6, 2009 - September 10 Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf International Speech Communication Association Alex Khitrik [akhitrik@media.mit.edu] after request by Rosalyn Picard |
| spellingShingle | Picard, Rosalind W. Lane, Joseph K. El Kaliouby, Rana Goodwin, Matthew Hoque, Mohammed Ehasanul Exploring speech therapy games with children on the autism spectrum |
| title | Exploring speech therapy games with children on the autism spectrum |
| title_full | Exploring speech therapy games with children on the autism spectrum |
| title_fullStr | Exploring speech therapy games with children on the autism spectrum |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring speech therapy games with children on the autism spectrum |
| title_short | Exploring speech therapy games with children on the autism spectrum |
| title_sort | exploring speech therapy games with children on the autism spectrum |
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