Past Projects ( G - L )
Past Projects: ( A - F ) (G - L) ( M - R ) ( S - Z )
HSTMS (Health Service Management System)
B Petheram, P Enderby, F Varet,
Funded by The Underwood Trust
April 1997 - March 2002
In 1986 Enderby & Roworth developed a computerised method of collecting data related to Speech & Language Therapy Services. This information system was used in ten different districts in the
Internet accessibility
B Petheram in collaboration with S Parr (Connect Centre,
Funded by Economic and Social Research Council Innovative Health Technologies Programme
April 2001 - April 2003
This project investigated the accessibility of the Internet for people with communication disorders. Although much has been done on Internet accessibility, nearly all of it has focused on the needs of people with mobility or sensory problems and very little has addressed the needs of this population. This project involved people with aphasia exploring how they would wish to use the internet and identifying factors which were facilitators or barriers to their access. The project took the view that as well as being a source of information and entertainment, the Internet could also have a role in building identity and communities for people with aphasia.
Investigation of the use of voice recognition software as a dictation tool by people with aphasia
J Wade, P Enderby,
Funded by The Stroke Association
July 2002 - March 2004
This project investigated the use of Automatic Speech Recognition software (Dragon Dictate and Dragon Naturally Speaking) by people who have writing difficulties as a result of aphasia after stroke. The software used was standard office dictation software that interfaces with word processing software (as well as email, database, spreadsheet, internet software etc) to enable users to dictate text thus by-passing the keyboard and the need to spell.
Linguistic Analysis of Aphasia
T Bookless.
Funded by the University of the West of
April 1994 - March 1996
The purpose of the analysis was to discover the strategies employed by a severely agrammatic patient who had virtually no ability to form syntactic structures. The analysis was based on his ability to collocate nouns with a range of other parts of speech to produce a variety of novel noun phrases (e.g. adverb + noun) which could compensate for his lack of verbs. It was proposed that an analysis of this nature could supply a useful indication of his potential by highlighting the ways in which he attempted to overcome his syntactic deficit.
Past Projects: ( A - F ) (G - L) ( M - R ) ( S - Z )