An Investigation into the Development of a Mobile Multimedia Application to Support the Learning Process for Speech and Language Therapy

Recent technological advancement in Mobile Computing and the development of the Internet has served to foster on-going innovation in Speech and Language Therapy (SLT). This realisation has wrought a plethora of diverse systems designed to assist with the evolution of traditional models and approaches in a variety of fields. In the field of SLT, systems are desired to complement the structured therapy session, in order to aid the Speech and language Professional (SLP). More recently, there has been a noticeable rise in the number of applications that appear keen to affect a move towards more individual, mobile, personalised learning motivated by the evolving social and computing paradigms of the age. It is therefore this research has identified the areas of the existing paper based SLT system that have the potential to be improved upon through use of computing technology. These areas were factored into a design for an improved prototype system; while attempting to leverage research in the area of Applied Computing in Human Biology as demonstrated by the work of Leitner in order to create a novel system with which to augment the SLT process. The proposed prototype system was evaluated and tested in order prove the efficacy of a computerised system used in this context.