Phase 1

During Phase 1 of the research, we recruited adults with dysarthria from SLT teams, specialist AAC services, and community and third sector organisations.

We worked with participants to identify their goals (what they wanted to achieve with the app) and helped set it up for their use.

We collected information about how they currently communicate, how they feel about their communication, and how they hope a VIVOCA could support their communication.

We followed up our participants at 3 and 6 months, to see how having a VIVOCA has affected their communication.