An educational platform based on expert systems, speech recognition, and ludic activities to support the lexical and semantic development in children from 2 to 3 years

E. Redrovan-Reyes, J. Chalco-Bermeo, V. Robles-Bykbaev, P. Carrera-Hidalgo, C. Contreras-Alvarado, A. Leon-Pesantez, D. Nivelo-Naula, J. Olivo-Deleg

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Abstract

The language and communication are considered mainstays of cognitive, psychological and emotional development of children. Commonly, during the first four years of life, children make significant progress in learning the language. However, in some cases, there arise delays or differences in patterns of language acquisition, aspects that constitute warnings of developmental problems. For these reasons, in this paper, we describe an educational platform (Pike-Aprende) aimed at supporting the following aspects: a) planning, monitoring, and intervention activities in children (carried out by teachers and Speech and Language Therapists, SLTs), b) automatic design of therapy/stimulation plans for children, and c) supporting the analysis/discrimination of utterances produced by children during sessions. To this aim, we developed a set of tools for web and mobile devices, an expert system for recommending exercises and activities (based on the patient's profile). With the aim of determining the real feasibility of our proposal, we validated the platform with the support of experts in the initial education program. The experts used the system while developed therapy and stimulation sessions with children. The results show significant progress in several participants (in comparison to traditional therapy).

Original languageEnglish
Pages1-6
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 23 Aug 2019
Event2019 IEEE Colombian Conference on Communications and Computing, COLCOM 2019 - Proceedings -
Duration: 1 Jun 2019 → …

Conference

Conference2019 IEEE Colombian Conference on Communications and Computing, COLCOM 2019 - Proceedings
Period1/06/19 → …

Keywords

  • children
  • communication disorders
  • mobile apps
  • rules-based reasoning
  • Speech-Language Therapy

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