Blobwords
Joyce Y
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Posted Feb 7, 2024
As a ux designer, I worked alongside two others to design an app that will help those with communication disorders express themselves for a Designathon.
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Blobwords is a social media app, that could help children with developmental expressive language disorders express themselves through creativity and have a sense of community and belonging. Developmental expressive language disorder is where a child has lower than normal vocabulary, having difficulty saying complex words and remembering words.
BACKGROUND
As a team, we decided to focus on developmental expressive language because, nearly 1 in 12 U.S. children ages 3-17 had a disorder related to voice, speech, language, or swallowing in 2016.
Common communication disorders include language disorders, speech disorders, hearing disorders, and central auditory processing disorders. According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, nearly 1 in 12 U.S. children ages 3-17 has had a disorder related to voice, speech, language, or swallowing in the past 12 months.
THE PROBLEM
Developmental expressive language can be frustrating to children who aren't able to express and understand words.
THE SOLUTION
A social media app that children, ages 5-8, could express and understand themselves through a medium that they felt comfortable with and AI analyzing the words, thoughts, and drawings, for adults what they meant.
