BabblePlay: An app for infants, controlled by infants, to improve early language outcomes.

ABSTRACT: This project set out to develop an app for infants under one year of age that responds in real time to language-like infant utterances with attractive images on an iPad screen. Language-like vocalisations were defined as voiced utterances which were not high pitched squeals, nor shouts. The app, BabblePlay, was intended for use in psycholinguistic research to investigate the possible causal relationship between early canonical babble and early onset of word production. It is also designed for a clinical setting, (1) to illustrate the importance of feedback as a way to encourage infant vocalisations, and (2) to provide consonant production practice for infant populations that do not vocalise enough or who vocalise in an atypical way, specifically, autistic infants (once they have begun to p

SUBMITTER: Daffern H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7043348 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature