Rebecca BrightOct 1, 20211 minHear about Language Explorer on the FSF podcastLast week Rebecca caught up with Stephen from the Foundation Stage Forum podcast to provide an update on the Language Explorer. The...
Rebecca BrightAug 31, 20211 minInterspeech2021: Parental Spoken Scaffolding & Narrative Skills in Crowd-Sourced Story Samples Our interdisciplinary article looking at what happened when we noticed that (despite instructions) parents were observed to speak during...
Rebecca BrightAug 12, 20211 minDigital technology, broadband access and inequalitiesDigital technology has the potential to reduce health inequalities by enabling people to access information and tools to help better...
Elaine AshtonJul 20, 20212 minTranscription and language analysis are just difficult!Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs) transcribe language samples and analyse them linguistically to help assess and identify children’s...
Rebecca BrightJul 6, 20212 minDesigning an inclusive story retell appIn 2021 we are often asked about how we can make our treasure based story more inclusive for the future. There is always more we can do...
Rebecca BrightJun 22, 20211 minSee you at #ICPLA2021The interdisciplinary team, Dr Yvonne Wren, Prof Cristina McKean, Gerry Bates, Elaine Ashton, Dr Jennifer Chesters and Rebecca Bright...
Rebecca BrightJun 16, 20211 minLanguage Explorer being demonstrated at HealTAC 2021 HealTAC 2021 will bring the academic, clinical, industrial and patient communities together to discuss the current state of the art in...
Rebecca BrightJun 9, 20211 minLanguage Explorer now being evaluated in NHS clinicsThis week we have started our first in-clinic sessions using Language Explorer. There are three sites participating in the evaluation of...
Rebecca BrightJun 4, 20211 minPaper accepted for Interspeech 2021Our paper, "Parental spoken scaffolding and narrative skills in crowd-sourced storytelling samples of young children" was accepted for...
Rebecca BrightMay 13, 20214 minQ&A from the NAPLIC presentationDr Yvonne Wren had so many questions after her NAPLIC presentation that we have compile the answers here. Will this just be for English...
bjordan08Apr 13, 20212 minPhD Student's Contribution to Language ExplorerZhengjun is a third year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield, specifically the Speech and...
Rebecca BrightApr 8, 20211 minUsing citizen science approaches to boost engagement across socio-economic groupsTo gather normative data and provide data for the machine-learning driving the language analysis functions a novel citizen science...
bjordan08Mar 12, 20211 minChild Health Technology Conference 2021The CHT conference ran from 2nd to 5th March 2021, and was the first of its kind! The aim is to bring together a range of attendees from...
bjordan08Mar 9, 20211 minLanguage Explorer: Our JourneyLanguage Explorer set sail in November 2019 as a way to help Speech and Language Therapists to elicit, transcribe and analyse language...