STUTTERER AID MOBILE APPLICATION

The main objective of this project is to develop a mobile application as an
alternative way for stutterers to have personal practice guidance to reduce their stuttering
problem besides attending speech therapy. This project will identify the appropriate
methods that can treat stutterer’s stuttering problem and to evaluate the user acceptance
towards the developed mobile application. This is because none of current mobile
application provides function that allows stutterers and speech pathologist to know the
stage of stuttering through assessment result. Moreover, devices which are specially
designed to aid stuttering are expensive. This application is targeted for children’s
stutterers in Malaysia and it is built for Android platform. Moreover, this application is
applies effective approaches or treatments for curing stuttering problems recommended
by Pathologist who are specializes in this area. From the interview session with the
Pathologist in Hospital Kuala Lumpur, it is found that there are a lot of treatments or
methods to help stutterers to improve their speech patterns and boost their confidence
level. The methods include Metronome, Music, Mirroring, Delayed Auditory Feedback,
and word repetition. This Stutterer Aid Mobile Application will implement only three
methods from all methods that been recommended by the Pathologists which are
Metronome, Mirroring and Delayed Auditory Feedback and a device called “Stutter
Rate”. This application provides an assessment results for Pathologist reference so that
pathologist can monitor their recovery. After the user testing, it can be conclude that this
application is able to become another alternative ways for stutterers having personal
speech exercise. Moreover, mostly users are satisfied with this application based on the
user testing results.