Game Based Learning Rehabilitation for Children with Speech Disabilities: Presenting Two Bespoke Video Games

Abstract

Rehabilitation and exercises for children with speech disabilities can be tedious. To address this issue, we created two different types of video games that will hopefully act as a motivation to children to keep playing while also practicing their words. The games were created using a user-centered approach with experts on accessibility and speech rehabilitation. We used pre-trained natural language models to detect the word the children are saying. The performance of their game is correlated to the performance of their articulation of the words; namely, the confidence level of the spoken word to the representation of the word in our pre-trained model. We are now in the process of testing the effects of these games in the rehabilitation process of children with speech disabilities.