Children's speech audiometry, logopedy and understanding testing
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Link to our applications and questionnaire can be found at the end of the page (section Applications)
What we are researching
This research activity is focused on the field of children's speech audiometry, understanding testing and logopedy and their technological support.
For children's speech audiometry in Slovak, to our knowledge, there were no freely available software tools available that would allow such a measurement to be made in an attractive, playful form even in the home environment.
As part of the research in this area, we focused on:
- creating a database of sounds and cards for speech audiometry in the Slovak language
- creating an application, or a game, that allows a simple speech audiometric measurement (word recognition test) to be performed via a web browser
- creating an application that allows daily screening of correct speech hearing in children with a cochlear implant / hearing aid based on the Ling 6-word test
Who we are
The research group was created on the basis of cooperation between the laboratories:
- LRMT (Laboratory of Speech and Mobile Technologies, KEMT, FEI, TUKE) and
- LICOLAB (Laboratory of Experimental Phonetics and Communication, Department of Slovak Studies, Slavic Philology and Communication, Faculty of Arts, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice).
The research group consists of members of these laboratories and students involved in solving final theses in this area.
The contact persons of this group are:
- doc. Ing. Stanislav Ondáš, PhD. (email: stanislav.ondas@tuke.sk)
- Ing. Eva Kiktová, PhD. (email: eva.kiktova@upjs.sk)
Objectives
The aim of this research activity is to create supporting tools for the implementation of audiometric measurements in children, the implementation of logopedic exercises and for testing the level of understanding.
The research group deals mainly with:
- research of the set of words in the Slovak language suitable for speech audiometry for children in early childhood and preschool age
- development of applications to support the implementation of children's speech audiometry (WRT - Word Recogntition Testing, Ling 6-word test and others)
- creating simple web applications for practicing correct pronunciation in a playful way for the field of logopedy
- creating simple web applications for testing the level of understanding in children
Publications
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- S. Ondáš a kol., „Towards robot-assisted children speech audiometry“, In: 10th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications : CogInfoCom 2019 : Proceedings. - Danvers (USA) : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers s. 119-123 . - ISBN 978-1-7281-4793-2
- S. Ondáš a kol., „Pediatric Speech Audiometry Web Application for Hearing Detection in the Home Environment“, In: Electronics, Basel, Švajčiarsko: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, Vol. 9, No. 6, 2020, s. 1-15 [online], ISSN 2079-9292
- E. Kiktová, J. Zimmermann, S. Ondáš, M. Pleva, J. Juhár and V. Šoltésová, "The Role of Hearing Screening Using an Audiometry Application in the Education of Children with Hearing Impairment," 2020 18th International Conference on Emerging eLearning Technologies and Applications (ICETA), 2020, pp. 311-317, doi: 10.1109/ICETA51985.2020.9379250.
Final theses
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Applications
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Robot Tomáš - demo application for WRS (Word Recognition Score) evaluation
Robot Tomáš_verzia 2 - demo application for WRS (Word Recognition Score) evaluation, version 2
6Ling test - demo application for daily screening of speech perception
6Ling test verzia 2 - demo application for daily screening of speech perception, dynamic version
Test_porozumenia - demo application for comprehension testing