title: Feasibility of Technology Enabled Speech Disorder Screening.
abstract: One in twenty Australian children suffers from a speech disorder. Early detection of such problems can significantly improve literacy and academic outcomes for these children, reduce health and educational burden and ongoing social costs. Here we present the development of a prototype and feasibility tests of a screening and decision support tool to assess speech disorders in young children. The prototype incorporates speech signal processing, machine learning and expert knowledge to automatically classify phonemes of normal and disordered speech. We discuss these results and our future work towards the development of a mobile tool to facilitate broad, early speech disorder screening by non-experts.
authors.affiliation: CSIRO, Data61, Australia.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Duenser
authors.affiliation: CSIRO, Data61, Australia.
authors.forename: Lauren
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ward
authors.affiliation: CSIRO, Data61, Australia.
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stefani
authors.affiliation: CSIRO, Data61, Australia.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.affiliation: CSIRO, Health & Biosecurity, Australia.
authors.forename: Jill
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Freyne
authors.affiliation: Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia.
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Morgan
authors.affiliation: University of Melbourne, Australia.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dodd
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001315:Australia; D002547:Cerebral Palsy; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D005103:Expert Systems; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006801:Humans; D000069550:Machine Learning; D063731:Mobile Applications / Q000592:standards*; D047928:Premature Birth; D013064:Speech Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*