An educational robotic assistant for supporting therapy sessions of children with communication disorders

V. Velasquez-Angamarca; K. Mosquera-Cordero; V. Robles-Bykbaev; A. Leon-Pesantez; D. Krupke; J. Knox; V. Torres-Segarra; P. Chicaiza-Juela

doi:10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00110

An educational robotic assistant for supporting therapy sessions of children with communication disorders

V. Velasquez-Angamarca, K. Mosquera-Cordero, V. Robles-Bykbaev, A. Leon-Pesantez, D. Krupke, J. Knox, V. Torres-Segarra, P. Chicaiza-Juela

Artificial Intelligence and Assistive Technologies Research Group (GI-IATa)

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Abstract

Nowadays the communication disorders affect million people worldwide. This situation is a reality even in developed countries such as the United States of America (40 million persons in general), the United Kingdom (1 million children), Australia (1.1 million), among many others. However, in several South American countries, such as Ecuador, there are not even comparative statistics regarding the number of children that present communication disorders. But each year hundreds of children join schools with different difficulties, of which the most common is the Dyslalia. For these reasons, in this paper, we present a new approach to engage children to participate in therapies with the support of a robotic assistant. This proposal was put to the test with ten children divided into two groups (control and pilot) during two months of therapy. The achieved results are encouraging.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2019 7th International Engineering, Sciences and Technology Conference, IESTEC 2019
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	586-591
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728116914
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00110
State	Published - Oct 2019
Event	7th International Engineering, Sciences and Technology Conference, IESTEC 2019 - Panama City, Panama Duration: 9 Oct 2019 → 11 Oct 2019

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Name	Proceedings - 2019 7th International Engineering, Sciences and Technology Conference, IESTEC 2019

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Conference	7th International Engineering, Sciences and Technology Conference, IESTEC 2019
Country/Territory	Panama
City	Panama City
Period	9/10/19 → 11/10/19

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Keywords

Children
Communi cation disorders
Dyslalia
Robotic assistant
Speech language therapy

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Velasquez-Angamarca, V., Mosquera-Cordero, K., Robles-Bykbaev, V., Leon-Pesantez, A., Krupke, D., Knox, J., Torres-Segarra, V., & Chicaiza-Juela, P. (2019). An educational robotic assistant for supporting therapy sessions of children with communication disorders. In Proceedings - 2019 7th International Engineering, Sciences and Technology Conference, IESTEC 2019 (pp. 586-591). Article 8943654 (Proceedings - 2019 7th International Engineering, Sciences and Technology Conference, IESTEC 2019). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00110

Velasquez-Angamarca, V. ; Mosquera-Cordero, K. ; Robles-Bykbaev, V. et al. / An educational robotic assistant for supporting therapy sessions of children with communication disorders. Proceedings - 2019 7th International Engineering, Sciences and Technology Conference, IESTEC 2019. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019. pp. 586-591 (Proceedings - 2019 7th International Engineering, Sciences and Technology Conference, IESTEC 2019).

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Velasquez-Angamarca V, Mosquera-Cordero K, Robles-Bykbaev V, Leon-Pesantez A, Krupke D, Knox J et al. An educational robotic assistant for supporting therapy sessions of children with communication disorders. In Proceedings - 2019 7th International Engineering, Sciences and Technology Conference, IESTEC 2019. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2019. p. 586-591. 8943654. (Proceedings - 2019 7th International Engineering, Sciences and Technology Conference, IESTEC 2019). doi: 10.1109/IESTEC46403.2019.00110

An educational robotic assistant for supporting therapy sessions of children with communication disorders

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