Speak App: A Development of Mobile Application Guide for Filipino People with Motor Speech Disorder

Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a motor speech disorder of a person that has weak sequence coordination relevant to produce speech sounds and poor articulation. The speech-language pathologists use different assessment tools as part of their speech therapy sessions. But, most of these tools are in English-based language, which makes it challenging for the Filipino patients to follow. It provides confusion and slows down their progress because of language barriers and cultural differences. This study emphasizes the development of a mobile application to guide children and adult patients to practice their speech in Filipino language. It contains images to visualize the words being spoken and auditory sound practice sets. In addition, it will also help the family members in monitoring the children or adult patients' progress through score chart. The speech therapists can check and verify the patient's development in the said track records.