University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The goal of this work
is to develop and evaluate a set of voice visualization software
tools that specifically target multi-syllabic word production in
children autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The use of technology
has the potential to alleviate some apprehension experienced by
many ASD children when interacting with humans. In addition, it
can provide teachers/therapists with new techniques to
complement and/or supplement their existing approaches. Our goal
with this work is to develop and evaluate a set of software
programs that "paint" an individual's voice on the screen,
showing volume and pitch changes as well as when syllables
occur. Our preliminary studies lead us to believe there is
potential to create a new direction of research utilizing real-
time visualizations to teach language skills. We aim to develop
these software tools using Task Centered User Interface Design
method, in which subjects of the target population are involved
with the software developmen