Prof Kirrie Ballard has invited me to collaborate with her on a study titled "An interactive technology-based tool for remote speech therapy of childhood speech sound disorders" that is partially funded by an AMP Tomorrow Fund Grant. It will involve providing 50 rural children with free access to the Go Bananas! app to support their speech therapy. Here are more details explaining the project: https://www.ampstomorrowfund.com.au/tomorrow-makers/kirrie-ballard.html
We are finalising the protocol/processes now. It is going to be such a great boost to children who don't have access to speech therapy in rural areas, or who are currently on long waiting lists.
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| Prof Kirrie Ballard and Prof Sharynne McLeod |
I am very honoured to work with Prof Ballard and her colleague Dr Beena Ahmed, who are the co-founders of Say66. They have been winning a number of awards recently.
Prof Ballard won the Speech Pathology Australia Innovation Award for 2020: https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/2021/02/congratulations-prof-kirrie-ballard.html
Dr Beena Ahmed is a senior lecturer in the School of Engineering and Telecommunications at UNSW. This week she won the 2021 Women in AI Award in the field of Education. https://www.womeninai.co/waiawards2021aus-nz
Women in AI (WAI) is a global network of female experts and professionals in the field of Artificial Intelligence working towards gender-inclusive AI that benefits a global society. Our mission is to close the gender gap in the field by educating the next generation of female leaders in AI and to increase female representation and participation in AI. Committed to supporting and rewarding excellence to women in AI, the WAI Awards 2021 will be prestigious in their recognition and vital in building the credibility and exposure for women in AI in Australia and New Zealand.
