The OLP articulation
program: a demonstration
Rebecca Palmer, Pam Enderby, Mark Hawley
Phil Green, Nassos Hatzis & James Carmichael
European Commission
Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources
Fifth Framework Programme
Contract number: QLG5-CT-2001-01971
European partners
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Institute of language and speech processing, Athens
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University of Sheffield
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Barnsley District General Hospital
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Logos and Altec companies, Thessaloniki
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Technical university of Stockholm
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Poltecnic university of Madrid
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Arches, company, Grenoble
MLT principles applied
to design of OLP
• Practice
– Consistent (Carr & Shepherd 1987)
• Feedback
– Accurate & judgmental (Kinsey, 1990)
• Goals
– Specific, hard yet achievable (Gauggel & Fischer
2001)
• Motivation
– Internal locus of control (Singer, 1975)
– Success 80% of time (Brookshire, 1989)
Key features of OLP
• Main focus: articulation treatment (acquisition)
• Grounded in theory: motor learning
• Uses speech recognition technology (for
treatment)
• Provides auditory examples of target sounds and
words
– (Palmer, Enderby & Cunningham 2004)
• Provides visual feedback (immediate and real
time) on performance
• Motivating graphical user interfaces
More key features
• Practice exercises tailored to the individual so need to go
through set up process of recording, training recogniser and
configuring exercise.
• Work towards consistently producing own best production
rather than pre-defined norm so goal is achievable
• Client interface so can use the system for independent
practice
• Graphs of practice performance over time
• Web link so clients can upload results to therapist and
therapist can suggest what to do next, or arrange another
visit to update the practice schedule
To set up tailor made exercises:
1. Record
2. Train recogniser
3. Configure exercise
Poster
• Example of how computer program
worked for one client with dysarthria
• Details methodology of trials carried
out with computer program compared
to traditional therapy methods
Further work
• Still research grade software
• Funding from Sheffield University
‘proof of concept’ fund for therapists to try using
in practice
• Making interfaces more accessible
• Availability?!