Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

3 results found tagged language development.

Toward the Use of Speech and Natural Language Technology in Intervention for a Language-Disordered Population

Jill Fain Lehman (1998) — Proceedings of the Third International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '98)

This paper from Carnegie Mellon University describes the design of Simone Says, an interactive software environment for language remediation in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The system brings together speech recognition, natural langu…
ASL-STEM Forum: Enabling Sign Language to Grow Through Online Collaboration

Anna C. Cavender, Daniel S. Otero, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Richard E. Ladner (2010) — CHI '10: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

This paper presents the ASL-STEM Forum, the first online video-based collaboration tool designed to help expand American Sign Language (ASL) vocabulary for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. The paper addresses a signifi…
Evaluating the STANDUP Pun Generating Software with Children with Cerebral Palsy

Annalu Waller, Rolf Black, David A. O'Mara, Helen Pain, Graeme Ritchie, Ruli Manurung (2009) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

This paper evaluates STANDUP (System To Augment Non-speakers' Dialogue Using Puns), software that uses natural language generation to enable children with complex communication needs (CCN) to create and tell novel punning riddles. Unlike traditional …