About SpeakAbility

Project Origin

It started with a visit at บ้านนนธภูมิ where I had the chance to meet and interact with people with multiple disabilities. From this visit, I learned that many of these people have weaker jaw muscles and have difficulty learning to speak and pronounce words. Upon speaking with the staff there, I became aware that there is an overwhelming number of disabled kids, with not enough professional speech pathologists to properly develop their speaking skills . With the creation of a program that can be deployed on a device, kids are able to learn to pronounce words with the aid of the program without needing the active assistance of a speech pathologist. Currently, volunteers such as medical students occasionally come in and teach the students, but COVID-19 has decreased the number of volunteers with no resurgence in recent times. By providing a program, there will be much more continuous development of speaking skills.