Sistema para construção e revisão de avaliações fonológicas voltadas a triagem de distúrbios dos sons da fala em crianças

Abstract

Speech Sound Disorders are characterized by substitutions, insertions and/or removal of sounds during the process of language acquisition, also known as Phonological Processes. Recent studies have shown that, through assessments performed on patients, it is possible to build a system capable of helping the speech therapist to diagnose these processes early, enabling an improvement in the treatment of various pathologies. Speech assessments consist in the pronunciation analysis of several words, which are responsible for testing the presence of different Phonological Processes in different phonemes. The process of selecting these words is not trivial and needs to consider a number of factors, including the age and geographic region of the child. The present work aims to fill some gaps present in previous proposals through a web-based system aimed at assisting the speech therapist in the construction of these assessments, as well as helping them in the interpretation of the results and in the screening of speech sound disorders. For these tasks, the system requirements were first discovered, which enabled a more informed choice of which technologies should be used, thus allowing to start the development stage of the system. The development resulted in a web portal containing ten different web pages built with React, a REST API written in TypeScript with twenty-seven different resources and some adaptations to previous works, allowing the integration of two of them in the present work. The system was validated with users, who indicated that they liked the design and features offered.