Projects

This is my first completed project: an Aphasia Language Sample Analysis (LSA) app.

During my CFY, I had a few patients who had transcortical motor aphasia on my caseload. The WAB-R wasn't able to fully capture what their deficits actually looked like, and so I knew I had to collect an LSA. I'd hated doing LSAs during grad school, and had hoped to avoid them throughout my career, but it just wasn't meant to be. Instead of getting the LSAs done and moving on with my life, I decided I wanted a tool to make this much easier for myself in the future. And then I decided I wanted to make that tool accessible to other SLPs!

This app streamlines aphasia LSAs. Once you select an audio file, it will transcribe it, give you seven metrics from that sample, and then provide the ability to save those metrics in Excel or Google Sheets for tracking progress/changes over time. If you want a copy for yourself, just check out the link below. I'm always open to feedback and finding ways to make this little tool even more powerful and useful!

This project has yet to see the light of day, but it's something I'm hoping to return to soon: an Aphasia Reading Assistant App

This was actually the first project that I'd worked on. At the time I had no idea how to structure an app (I still barely do, honestly), so it's a real mess. I can't even get the code to run right now to get proper screenshots, so you'll have to use your imagination. For now, here is a screenshot of some also very messy brainstorming of the project.

The overall idea was to create a tool that someone with aphasia could use to interact with the text that they naturally come across in the real world. They could snap a picture of the word/text in question, which would then be extracted using OCR (Optical Character Recognition). They could then select certain words and store them into their own personal word bank, which would then allow them structured practice with those words.