Literature Reviews

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

• Encouraging Speech and Vocalization in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder

  Joshua Hailpern (2007) — SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing

  This paper reviews existing HCI research on autism spectrum disorder and proposes a new direction: using technology to encourage speech and vocalization in children with ASD who have not acquired spoken language. The author identifies a gap in the fi…

  • autism spectrum disorder
  • speech disorder
  • vocalization
  • visual feedback
  • auditory feedback
  • augmentative and alternative communication
  • applied behavior analysis
  • social robot

• Development of a Remote Therapy Tool for Childhood Apraxia of Speech

  Avinash Parnandi, Virendra Karappa, Tian Lan, Mostafa Shahin, Jacqueline McKechnie, Kirrie Ballard, Beena Ahmed, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna (2015) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper presents a multitier client-server system for remote administration of speech therapy to children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), a motor speech disorder where the brain has difficulty coordinating the movements needed for speech p…

  • speech disorder
  • speech therapy
  • childhood apraxia of speech
  • remote therapy
  • mobile health
  • automated speech analysis
  • gamification
  • children