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The creation and facilitation of speech and language therapy sessions for individuals with aphasia

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Conor Higgins,

Conor Ryan,

Aine Kearns,

Mikael FernstromAuthors Info & Claims

GECCO Comp '14: Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2014 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2598394.2598485

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Aphasia is the degradation of one's ability to comprehend or convey language, usually due to brain damage caused by strokes or some external force. Sufferers can regain some or all of their prior abilities, but only with significant speech and language therapy (SLT) sessions. SLT sessions are resource-intensive, as they often require skilled therapists to adapt the therapy for the individual patients.

We present Ogma, a novel approach to the automatic creation of SLT sessions. Ogma is comprised of a proprietary mobile front-end application that the patients interact with, and an offline GA that designs patient-specific sessions based on a patient's progress. Key to this is the ability to accurately capture the difficulty of the generated sessions; this paper presents the results of experiments where SLT practitioners perform beta testing on Ogma, to ascertain its ability to consistently produce useful sessions of appropriate difficulty.

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July 2014

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ISBN:9781450328814

DOI:10.1145/2598394

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Ruhr University of Bochum, University of Copenhagen
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Sasakura MIikuma SIzawa Y(2015)An Experience of Information Visualization and Interaction for Aphasic PersonsProceedings of the 2015 19th International Conference on Information Visualisation10.1109/iV.2015.97(553-556)Online publication date: 22-Jul-2015
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