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

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Abstract

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 resourceintensive, 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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGECCO 2014 - Companion Publication of the 2014 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages109-110
Number of pages2
ISBN (Print)9781450328814
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Event16th Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, GECCO 2014 Companion - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Duration: 12 Jul 201416 Jul 2014

Publication series

NameGECCO 2014 - Companion Publication of the 2014 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Conference

Conference16th Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, GECCO 2014 Companion
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver, BC
Period12/07/1416/07/14

Keywords

  • Aphasia
  • Evolutionary computation
  • Genetic algorithm
  • Speech and language therapy

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