Application for Stuttering Treatment via Smartphone

This Phase I project develops a smartphone application and associated server software to allow a speech language pathologist (SLP) working with students who stutter to administer treatment over a smartphone. The student may conduct smartphone video chat sessions with their SLPs at times that best fit their schedules. Students can also record video and audio samples of themselves between the sessions with the SLP, as stuttering severity may increase in certain social situations. Additionally, the individual is able to add text comments to the video and audio samples to provide details for the SLP. The samples are sent to the server running the SLP's web-based interface. The samples are analyzed for disfluency counts prior to the student's video chat session with the SLP. The SLP and the student can then review past video and audio speech samples during a video chat session. A record of severity ratings overtime can be accessed by the student to review their progress.