Ren, C., & Seals, C., & Feng, D. (2023, March), Designing an ASR-based Interactive Game for Enhancing Speech Therapy to encourage young children to adhere to therapy protocols: A Case Study in User Interface Design  Paper presented at ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia. 10.18260/1-2--44998

\bibitem{asee_peer_44998}
  Ren, C., \& Seals, C., \& Feng, D. (2023, March), \emph{Designing an ASR-based Interactive Game for Enhancing Speech Therapy to encourage young children to adhere to therapy protocols: A Case Study in User Interface Design}
  Paper presented at ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia.
  10.18260/1-2--44998

Chang Ren, Cheryl Seals, and Dongji Feng.  "Designing an ASR-based Interactive Game for Enhancing Speech Therapy to encourage young children to adhere to therapy protocols: A Case Study in User Interface Design".  ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia, 2023, March.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/44998 Internet.  13 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_44998}
  Chang Ren, Cheryl Seals, and Dongji Feng.
  "Designing an ASR-based Interactive Game for Enhancing Speech Therapy to encourage young children to adhere to therapy protocols: A Case Study in User Interface Design".
  \emph{ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia, 2023, March}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/44998 Internet.  13 May, 2024

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title = "Designing an ASR-based Interactive Game for Enhancing Speech Therapy to encourage young children to adhere to therapy protocols: A Case Study in User Interface Design"
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - A speech disorder refers to the inability to correctly form the sounds of words. It can affect a child's communication and academic performance and their level of interaction with peers and adults. Approximately one-in-ten children develop differently than their peers and may need support. Practical pronunciation training requires prolonged supervised practice and interaction. However, such instruction is limited to children with long-term exposure to speech-language pathologists (SLPs), determined by the shortage of highly skilled speech therapists. 

In this study, we proposed a computer-based speech therapy system for young children using ASR technology in a personalized and accessible manner that mimics the knowledge of speech therapists. The proposed method with the phone-level ASR model applied high-resolution Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients as features and bidirectional Long-Short Term Memory as an encoder. The Speech Exemplar and Evaluation Database (SEED) data set, including the disordered and non-disordered speech of young children, was used for training and testing. We aim to increase young children's motivation to complete speech therapy through a more interactive game experience during this work. We will collaborate with participatory design partners (i.e., experts in communications disorders) to refine system requirements. Based on these interactions and a review of previous system versions, we will refine the design of an interactive user interface to incorporate the model to improve engagement and provide intuitive, consistent, and well-designed automatically derived feedback for young children and begin iterative prototype development. 	
AU  - Chang Ren
AU  - Cheryl Seals
AU  - Dongji Feng
CY  - Arlington, Virginia
DA  - 2023/03/12
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Designing an ASR-based Interactive Game for Enhancing Speech Therapy to encourage young children to adhere to therapy protocols: A Case Study in User Interface Design
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DO  - 10.18260/1-2--44998
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