Supporting functional communication to improve social, community and workplace participation.
Individual
Overview
- Client Ms Z (Female, 17 years old).
- Location: Home-based intervention
- User Type: Speech-Language Pathologist & Adolescent Client (Language, literacy and social communication goals).
- Timeframe: Ongoing (attending 1 x 30-minute sessions per week)
Opportunity
The client presents with challenges impacting functional communication skills including expressive and receptive language, social communication skills, literacy and speech. The client benefits from regular and consistent speech pathology intervention to support her social participation and her independence in activities of daily living.
Impact
“I got home today & (Ms Z) said “ hi mum I’m back” soo great…! A sentence..! No questions just love her progress & your understanding of our household!”
— My Z’s Mother
Goals
- Express needs and wants (request) with familiar and unfamiliar communication partners.
- Emotion identification and recognition
- Problem solving in social, community and workplace situations.
- Participation in a workplace environment with support.
- Improve functional literacy skills for independent community participation.
Solution
The client receives regular face-to-face intervention at home with a speech pathologist. The Kinephonics platform is used as a digital aid to support traditional intervention.
Key features used
- Entrainment tool These biofeedback strategies (visual, audio, tactile) help to increase client engagement and optimise therapy outcomes.
- Content library Tasks focusing on singing (automatic speech) and conversation initiation and maintenance.
- Personalised content Tasks focusing on Wh concepts (who, what, where, when) in conversation and narratives, letter recognition (literacy), social communication and personal recounts.
- Review space Serves as a digital record of the client’s progress and allows for parent review beyond the session.
- Village The client’s parents and speech pathologists are a part of the client’s learner space, creating an opportunity for ongoing discussion and a strong feedback loop.
Results
- The client enjoys initiating conversation in sessions by asking questions and providing 1-2 word answers.
- They are developing their understanding and use of Wh concepts using the Story Hand as support.
- The client is developing their typing skills and letter recognition skills, to support multimodal communication.
- Continued development of functional communication vocabulary knowledge (e.g. go, stop) will support the client’s independence and social participation skills.
Outputs
Insights & Learnings
- The tool can provide audio, tactile and visual feedback which are integral in traditional speech pathology intervention.
- The platform can help optimise traditional therapy outcomes by serving as a monitoring and tracking mechanism for the speech pathologist. It is a digital record of activities, outcomes, goals and session frequency.
- The platform has supported continuity of speech pathology services across different clinicians and contexts over the last five years, facilitated by the review space.
- The client enjoys listening to their personal stories by pressing the K button, boosting their engagement in speech pathology sessions.
- The platform tracks a client’s body movement and the readability score of the content in the text box. This provides additional insight and metrics into how the client develops over time and across different session goals and outcomes.
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Getting access to a speech pathologist can take weeks or even months. Kinephonics can help bridging that gap.
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