Allied Health Team of the Year - Finalist: SMAAT team

The Health Service Union WA (HSUWA) is part of the WA Health Excellence Awards and sponsor the Allied Health Team of the Year Award. The SMAAT team is one of the finalists in 2024. The link to the article is available here.

Curtinovation: Science and Engineering Award winner – SMAAT: Speech Movement and Acoustic Analysis Tracking

The Curtinnovation Awards are held annually to recognise and celebrate individuals and teams associated with Curtin through research, study, work or partnership developing innovations that positively impact society.

The 2024 winners include:

Science and Engineering Award winner – SMAAT: Speech Movement and Acoustic Analysis Tracking.

Speech Movement and Acoustic Analysis Tracking, or SMAAT, is a novel software application combining state-of-the-art facial landmark detection and tracking algorithms to support speech pathologists in diagnosing speech sound disorders with a high degree of accuracy. Using audio-video recordings of a child repeating a wordlist containing 40 words and four phrases, the software can score a child’s speech movements against a set of clinically established criteria. Based on data collected on more than 60 adults and 200 children with typically developing speech and language skills, the clinician can benchmark a child’s performance against their peers and use it to inform diagnosis, select the most appropriate intervention and show treatment progress over time.