1. GReAT Project

2. What is GReAT?
• Gesture
• Recognition
• in
• Aphasia
• Therapy

3. What is GReAT about?
• Aphasia
• Gesture Therapy
• Computers

4. The GReAT Team
Computers
• Stephanie Wilson
• Julia Galliers
• Sam Muscroft

5. The GReAT Team
Speech and Language Therapy
• Jane Marshall
• Tim Pring
• Naomi Cocks
• Abi Roper

6. Consultants
Justine Everson Gerald Hartup Carol Watson
Philip Pepper Emma Buswell

7. What is GReAT for?
• We are developing a computer therapy.
• We hope it will help people with aphasia.
• We hope it will help them use gesture.
• People can practise at home.
• We hope the gestures will help people to
communicate.

8. What have we done so far?
• We worked with five people with aphasia
• These are our aphasia Consultants
• They helped to develop the computer therapy
• They practised using the computer
• They gave us advice about what they found
easy and difficult

9. What have we made?
The Computer Therapy

10. What next?
Testing the computer therapy
10 people with aphasia will try the therapy
at home
6 weeks therapy
Gesture and naming tests

11. Testing the computer therapy
They will show us if this therapy:
Helps gesture
Helps spoken words
Is fun and easy to use

12. What do you think?
email:
Great@city.ac.uk