Desarrollo de un sistema de información con soporte inteligente para brindar apoyo en el estudio de casos clínicos para estudiantes de fonoaudiología

Abstract

Nowadays, several countries must address several problems related with lack of personnel, resources or adequate structures to provide healthcare and rehabilitation services for children with disabilities and communication disorders. Some of the latest studies carried out by The World Health Organization (WHO) and other organizations point that in some countries of Africa only exists 1 Speech-Language Therapist (SLT) for each 2-4 million of persons, whereas in developed countries such as USA or Australia there are 1 SLT per each 2500-4700 persons. On those grounds, in this project we propose an educational intelligent environment to train and support the development of professional skills of Speech-Language Therapy students. Our proposed system uses intelligent tools with the aim of creating new patients profiles of children with disabilities and communication disorders. In the same way, the system incorporates a knowledge database based on ontologies. The ontology models several elements of SLT such as communication disorders, disabilities, speech-language screening, among many others. Likewise, our proposal includes a Learning Object (LO) developed with the support of a team of specialists. This LO was incorporated to MOODLE platform and contains several educational modules related with the SLT plans designing. These Information and Communication Technologies (ITCs) allow supporting the learning and training processes of students and professionals of SLT area.