Literature Reviews

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

• Architecture of an Automated Therapy Tool for Childhood Apraxia of Speech

  Avinash Parnandi, Virendra Karappa, Youngpyo Son, Mostafa Shahin, Jacqueline McKechnie, Kirrie Ballard, Beena Ahmed, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna (2013) — Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper presents a multi-tier client-server system for remotely administering speech therapy to children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), a neurological speech sound disorder that impairs the precision and consistency of oro-motor planning …

  • childhood apraxia of speech
  • speech therapy
  • speech sound disorder
  • automated speech analysis
  • tele-rehabilitation
  • mobile applications
  • speech recognition

• SpeechOmeter: Heads-up Monitoring to Improve Speech Clarity

  Mansoor Pervaiz, Rupal Patel (2014) — Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS '14)

  This demonstration paper presents SpeechOmeter, a Google Glass application that provides real-time visual biofeedback on vocal loudness to help individuals with neuromotor speech disorders (dysarthria) speak more clearly during daily conversation. Dy…

  • speech disorders
  • dysarthria
  • speech therapy
  • wearable technology
  • biofeedback
  • multiple sclerosis
  • Parkinson's disease
  • cerebral palsy
  • assistive technology
  • Google Glass

• A Longitudinal Evaluation of Tablet-Based Child Speech Therapy with Apraxia World

  Adam Hair, Kirrie J. Ballard, Constantina Markoulli, Penelope Monroe, Jacqueline McKechnie, Beena Ahmed, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna (2021) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper presents Apraxia World, a tablet-based speech therapy game designed for long-term home practice by children with speech sound disorders (SSDs), particularly childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). Unlike many therapy games that use simple arcad…

  • speech therapy
  • childhood apraxia of speech
  • speech sound disorders
  • serious games
  • games for health
  • automatic speech recognition
  • mispronunciation detection
  • children
  • mobile health

• Contextual Adaptive Communication Aid: Supporting Individuals with Neurological Disease in Communication

  Lula Albar (2020) — Proceedings of the 17th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This doctoral consortium paper proposes a context-aware Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) system designed to support people with communication impairments (CI) caused by neurological disease or acquired brain injury, such as aphasia an…

  • AAC
  • communication impairment
  • aphasia
  • context-aware computing
  • co-design
  • neurological disease
  • speech therapy

• 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