Software Package with Exercises for Therapy of Children with Dyslalia

TL;DR

This paper introduces a set of age- and level-adapted speech exercises for children with dyslalia, developed from extensive voice recordings, and tested in a regional speech therapy center.

Contribution

It presents a comprehensive, validated set of speech exercises for dyslalia therapy based on a large voice database, aligned with a therapeutic guide.

Findings

Exercises are adapted to children's age and level.

Over 10,000 voice recordings used for development.

Exercises are currently being tested in a regional center.

Abstract

In this paper we present a consistent set of exercises for children with dyslalia (dyslalia is a speech disorder that affect pronunciation of one ore many sounds). The achievement has gone from "Therapeutic Guide" made available by the team of researchers led by Professor Mrs. Iolanda TOBOLCEA from the "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi. The specifications of the "Therapeutic Guide" have been fully complied with, such exercises being adapted both age and level of children. To achieve these exercises were recorded, processed and used more than 10000 voice production. They also have been made over the 2000 corresponding recorded nouns. These exercises are being tested by Interschool Regional Logopaedic Center of Suceava - Romania.