Our work with Therapy Box is coming along nicely. We’ve been examining prototypes of the new UTILISE therapy app and are thinking ahead to the launch of our small-scale study to test its feasibility.
Over the last couple of weeks, we have been creating some more sentences to add to our therapy tasks, so that users will have plenty of content to work through.
At Chandler House, we have a fantastic audio recording booth with a high-end microphone. Here, we can record high quality audios to use in our intervention. All three UTILISE therapy tasks use audio-taped sentences.
Pictured below are Rosemary, ready to lend her voice to the sentence constructions, and Claudia, listening closely and checking that the script programme is running smoothly.
Once all sentences are recorded, we comb through them carefully to check their quality to be sure we are left with clean, clear sound files.
The sentences we use have been carefully developed. We are practising constructions that are used frequently in day-to-day conversation. They are therefore highly functional.
Prof. Rosemary Varley, PI, ready to record some stimuli
Dr. Claudia Bruns, post-doc, running the script programme
We are looking forward to the next phase of our intervention development!