Digital Harf: A Clinically Integrated Multimodal AI System for Pervasive Arabic Speech and Language Therapy

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2607.27212v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Arabic-speaking countries face compounded barriers to effective speech and language therapy: a shortage of qualified specialists, limited service reach beyond urban centers, and a near-total absence of culturally grounded digital therapy materials. We present Digital Harf, a pervasive, multimodal AI platform that extends clinician-led speech and language therapy into the home. The system integrates three therapeutic modules - language therapy, speech intelligibility, and picture description - within a unified workflow that adapts to each child's performance over time. To address the critical shortage of Arabic therapy content, we introduce an Agentic Synthetic Data Engine (ASDE) that automatically g