Design And Development of Customized Speech Assistive Mobile Application as Early Speech Assistive Intervention for Dysarthric Children (S/O 14594)
Dysarthria is a neurological disorder that damages of motor speech articulation. Young children who suffered from this disorder have no problem with their cognition, but they have difficulties to speak out their words. They could not have an accurate and smooth communication with their family and fr...
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| Language: | English |
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UUM
2021
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| Online Access: | https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/30135/1/14594.pdf https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/30135/ |
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| Summary: | Dysarthria is a neurological disorder that damages of motor speech articulation. Young children who suffered from this disorder have no problem with their cognition, but they have difficulties to speak out their words. They could not have an accurate and smooth communication with their family and friends due to this disorder. An interactive speaking tool in the form of a mobile application named 'Let's Talk Now' which was designed and developed with redundant multimedia elements for the use of dysarthric children aged 3 to 7 years old. This application was intended to be an early intervention to help them who faced problem to communicate and enable them to be understood by others. The purpose of designing and developing speech assistive multimedia for dysarthric children was to help them to be able to converse and interact with others at the early stage of recovery intervention. It focuses on daily usable conversation terms for family, greeting and expressions, places, ordering food and beverages, activities and asking for help. This report describes the design and development process of the speech assistive mobile application. It was designed and developed based on the ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Develop, Implement and Evaluate) Model. This research also includes details on the evaluation of the prototype: alpha test and beta test. This report also outlines the findings of the effectiveness evaluation of this mobile application which involved 30 respondents who are related to dysarthria namely therapists, parents, and teacher of dysarthric children. The 'Let's Talk Now' mobile app’s acceptance was evaluated using the USE (Usefulness, Satisfaction and Ease of Use) Questionnaire (Lund, 2001) which was used to measure its user acceptance. The findings described that all of the respondents agreed that the 'Let's Talk Now' mobile app is usable and suitable in helping the communication between dysarthric children and people. This research is an attempt to uphold the obligations of the Department of Social Welfare under the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development, Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education to provide recommendations for the care and support of the children with disabilities. |
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