Symposium

Advances and Challenges in Using Evidence-based AI Driven Technology Platforms for Cognitive and Speech Therapy to Increase Patient Outcomes and Improve Clinician Productivity 1592

Corresponding Presenter(s)

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  Noah Poskanzer, PT, DPT

  Director of National Accounts
  Constant Therapy
  Slingerlands, NY, United States

  Slides

Presenter(s)

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  Swathi Kiran, PhD, CCC-SLP (she/her/hers)

  Director, Center for Brain Recovery
  Boston University
  Boston, MA, United States
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  Susan Wortman-Jutt, MS, CCC-SLP (she/her/hers)

  Senior Speech-Language Pathologist, Facilitator - Burke Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Program (ICAP)
  Burke Rehabilitation
  White Plains, NY, United States
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  Thomas L. Southern, Jr., SLPD, CCC-SLP

  Regional Administrator
  Elara Caring
  Washington, Michigan, United States

Despite clinical evidence supporting the need for consistent speech and cognitive therapy for patients with neurological disorders, access to therapy is limited by significant clinician shortages and geographic barriers. This presentation will highlight an AI “therapy calculator” developed at Boston University to provide practical guidance to clinicians and patients on the amount of improvement they can expect in various functional skills based on factors such as the frequency / amount of therapy they receive. Next, Elara Caring and Burke Rehabilitation will highlight the practical challenges in delivering adequate amounts of cognitive and speech therapy to patients in settings such as Home Health and Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Programs (ICAP). They will showcase ways to use AI and technology platforms to address these challenges, and present results from using an innovative platform, Constant Therapy, that significantly increases access to evidence-based cognitive and speech therapy, improves patient outcomes and improves clinician productivity.

Learning Objectives:

• Upon completion, participants will be able to identify the relevance and utility of implementing AI- and technology-driven solutions into clinical practice for speech, language and cognitive therapy.
• Upon completion, participants will be able to describe the clinical relevance and practical approaches of utilizing AI into home exercise programs (HEPs) as part of the treatment and maintenance of a digital therapy program for persons with aphasia and other cognitive disorders.
• Upon completion, participants will be able to identify how to use data-driven methods to constantly evaluate the ongoing efficacy of digital therapy platforms for the use of aphasia treatment.
• Upon completion, participants will be able to appropriately utilize knowledge related to selection and implementation of outcome measures for a digitally-based, intensive aphasia therapy program.
• Upon completion, participant will be able to implement data-driven tools such as the digital therapy calculator into their clinical practice, in order to more optimally serve patients with various neurological communication disorders.