Intelligent Early Language Intervention System

Clinically significant delays in language acquisition are the most prevalent developmental problemchildren. Early intervention is crucial since children with language delays are at greatly increaseddisabilities and behavioral disorders, but intervention resources are scarce and insufficient to proindividualized instruction that effective intervention requires. We will develop a computer-based EaIntervention System that will supplement the efforts of those who work with language impaired childr(a) combine traditional intervention methods with strategies derived from contemporary linguistic thartificial intelligence technology that enables the system to emulate intervention strategies used bspeech-language pathologists, (c) be developed and revised based on the results of controlled researempirically to establish the clinical validity and reliability of the system. Commercially, this sysclinical service providers, teachers, and parents who work with children who have language impairmendemonstrate the feasibility of the proposed Early Language Intervention System by producing a prototincludes the features described and addresses the needs of children in the early stages of language