Multimedia, multilingual teaching and training system for children with speech disorders

The development of an audiovisual pronunciation teaching & training method & software system is discussed. The method is designed to help children with speech & hearing disorders gain better control over their speech production. The teaching method is drawn up for progression from individual sound preparation to practice of sounds in sentences for four languages: English, Swedish, Slovenian, & Hungarian. The system is a general language-independent measuring tool & database editor. This database editor makes it possible to construct modules for all participant languages & for different sound groups. Two modules are under development for the system in all languages: one for teaching & training vowels to hearing-impaired children & the other for correction of misarticulated fricative sounds. We present the measuring methods, the used distance score calculations of the visualized speech spectra, & problems in the evaluation of the new multimedia tool. 4 Tables, 7 Figures, 14 References. Adapted from the source document