Projects
BOOTS N CATS (Beatboxing + SPeech Therapy)
Created in collaboration w/ Beat Global
BOOTS n CATS is a speech therapy curriculum available for free on YouTube that uses BEATBOXING to practice a wide range of speech and language skills. There is emerging clinical research to support our method from multiple universities including Ariel and Duquesne.
NIH SBIR grant phase II VAST (Video assisted speech therapy)
Research director for iTherapy
Ran a NIH funded research study to develop and test a VR-based language app called VAST (video assisted speech therapy) to improve functional language abilities for autistic children.
Inner voice (AAC and speech habilitation app)
Consultant for iTherapy
Revolutionary speech therapy app which uses animated avatars and AI to help kids learn functional language and speech skills.
NSF SBIR Grant for Easi-as (evaluative artificial speech intelligence - autism screener)
Consultant and Research director for iTherapy Current project — this system will use AI and machine learning to screen for autism given voice data.
SONIC ALLIES Non-Profit
Co-founder SONIC ALLIES is a non-profit investigating the use of music outside of entertainment based on the question:
“How music can be used therapeutically?”