Computer Aided Oral Theraphy For Down Syndrome

Umair, Rainul (2012) Computer Aided Oral Theraphy For Down Syndrome. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Down syndrome children is a group of people that require special care. They suffer a delay in developing their everyday skills. One of the skills is communication skills. People with Down syndrome have a higher incidence of pronunciation problems than any other group of people with severe learning difficulties. In addition, they have difficulties with coordinating the rapid tongue movements necessary for clear speech due to their small mouths and slightly enlarged tongues. These articulation problems can be compounded by their low muscle tone. This project focusing on developing a computer aided oral therapy for Down syndrome. The application developed called is 'Play With Casey'. The application helps the Down syndrome children with early stage of oral muscle problem to develop their communication skills. This project focuses specifically on stimulating the children with Down syndrome to train their mouth muscle tone and oral motor. By training their mouth muscle tone and oral motor, the children will be able to improve their speech and language skills. In this project, an interactive storytelling computer games based approach is used. The methodology applied for development of this project is the prototyping method. A prototyping methodology is a development process which allows developers to create portions of the solution to demonstrate functionality and make needed refinements before developing the final solution. The testing techniques used to test the project are by doing observations and distributing sets of questionnaires. The target user includes four Down syndrome children aged five to nine years old and two of their teacher. Based on the testing results, it shows that this project is useful and it helps the Down syndrome children to train their mouth muscle tone and oral motor.

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