Ramses: A Robotic Assistant and A Mobile Support Environment for Speech and Language Therapy
Vladimir Robles-Bykbaev,Tania Flores-Tapia, Celia OrdÃ³Ã±ez-Arce
International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2015.
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Link: http://www.dline.info/jcl/fulltext/v6n3/v6n3_1.pdf
Abstract:
Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) is an area focused in the rehabilitation of people suffering from different
kinds of disorders and disabilities related with language and communication. According to latest estimates of the World
Health Organization, the most of countries do not have appropriate structures, and enough personnel and resources to
provide healthcare and rehabilitation services these persons. This problem is more complex in developing countries, given
that a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) must to carry out several activities besides providing the therapy as such. On those
grounds, this paper presents a robotic assistant able to provide support for SLPs during the execution of several activities
related with the SLT such as: patientâ€™s progress monitoring, interacting with patients suffering from emotional and behavioural
disorders, report generation, and in general, supporting the execution of different kinds of therapy activities (visual, motor,
and auditory stimulation, relaxation activities, etc.). This approach is based on an integrative environment that relies on
mobile ICT tools, an expert system, a knowledge layer and standardized vocabularies. This proposal has been tested on 65
children suffering from different types of disabilities, and the achieved results are encouraging.