Speech therapy mobile app for autistic children

在英国，超过40万名年龄在3-11岁之间的儿童被诊断患有自闭症和其他发育性语言延迟挑战。存在有效的干预和治疗措施，并且在早期最有效。然而，由于缺乏合格的专业资源和政府资金有限，提供这种关键的支持受到限制。与此同时，随着自闭症诊断的增加，对支持服务的需求也在继续上升。我们的项目建立在我们之前进行的研发的基础上，开发并展示了一个创新的移动应用程序的原型，该应用程序可以帮助自闭症儿童和有其他语言延迟挑战的儿童提高他们的语言和沟通技能。该项目将语音识别技术与成熟的语言治疗和游戏化技术相结合，提供了一个有效的、可访问的、引人入胜的和负担得起的语音训练解决方案。该项目为自闭症儿童提供了至关重要的支持。它帮助他们发展他们的沟通技巧，自信，社会包容和生活质量。这也提高了他们融入主流教育、未来就业和独立生活的机会。该项目还帮助了儿童的家庭，并对社会和国民经济产生了积极影响。

Social communication skills challenges affect over 400,000 children aged 3-11 in the UK, who are diagnosed with autism and other developmental speech delay challenges. Effective interventions and therapy exist and are most effective in early years. However, providing this crucial support is constrained by the scarcity of qualified professional resources and by the limitations of government funding. Meanwhile, demand for support services continues to rise along with the increase in autism diagnosis.Our project builds on previous R&D we conducted, to develop and demonstrate a prototype for an innovative mobile app that helps autistic children and children with other speech delay challenges, improve their speech and communication skills. The project combines speech recognition technology with proven speech therapy and gamification, to provide an effective, accessible, engaging and affordable speech training solution.The project provides crucial support for autistic children. It helps them develop their communication skills, self-confidence, social inclusion and quality of life. It also improves their chances of inclusion in mainstream education, and of future employment and independent living. The project also helps the children's families, and has a positive impact on society and the national economy.