Computer design students' ISA prototype development

Masters students from East Tennessee State University (ETSU), USA who are studying Computer Science-Information Technology have been working with Dr. Marty Barrett to design a prototype computer program to support the International Speech Assessment (ISA). The ISA is being developed as one of the outputs of my Future Fellowship, with the aim to assess the speech of multilingual children. The computer prototype project was initiated during my visit to ETSU last year.

On Monday evening (their time)/Tuesday morning (my time), Dr Barrett, the students and I met via Skype to discuss their progress, and to move the project to the next stage. We are working on a research version at the moment, that will later be transformed into a clinical version for use by speech-language pathologists around the world.

L-R: (back) Aaron Stokes; Heather Haley; Eric Barclay; Kris Cunigan; Dr. Marty Barrett;
(front) Chandan Biswas; Howard Morris; Jim Johnson