{
  "metadata": {
    "created_at": "2025-12-21T12:17:29.026619",
    "version": "1.0",
    "total_datasets": 15
  },
  "categories": {
    "speech_disorders": {
      "description": "Dysarthria, aphasia, stuttering, atypical speech",
      "datasets": [
        {
          "name": "Speech Accessibility Project (SAP)",
          "url": "https://speechaccessibilityproject.beckman.illinois.edu",
          "size": "400+ hours",
          "speakers": "500+",
          "conditions": [
            "ALS",
            "Cerebral Palsy",
            "Down Syndrome",
            "Parkinsons",
            "Stroke"
          ],
          "access": "Data Use Agreement required",
          "format": "Audio + transcripts"
        },
        {
          "name": "TORGO Database",
          "url": "https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~complingweb/data/TORGO/torgo.html",
          "size": "Multiple speakers",
          "conditions": [
            "Cerebral Palsy",
            "ALS"
          ],
          "access": "Request form",
          "format": "Audio + 3D articulatory data"
        },
        {
          "name": "UASpeech",
          "url": "https://speechtechnology.web.illinois.edu/uaspeech/",
          "size": "16 speakers with dysarthria",
          "access": "Free for research",
          "format": "Isolated words + digits"
        },
        {
          "name": "SEP-28k (Stuttering)",
          "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/datasets (search SEP-28k)",
          "size": "28,000 clips from podcasts",
          "access": "Public (Kaggle)",
          "format": "Audio clips + event labels"
        }
      ]
    },
    "sign_language": {
      "description": "ASL and other sign language datasets",
      "datasets": [
        {
          "name": "How2Sign",
          "url": "https://how2sign.github.io",
          "size": "80+ hours, 35,000 sentences",
          "access": "CC BY-NC 4.0",
          "format": "Multiview video + depth + keypoints"
        },
        {
          "name": "WLASL",
          "url": "https://dxli94.github.io/WLASL/",
          "hf_url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/Voxel51/WLASL",
          "size": "21,083 videos, 2,000 words",
          "access": "Public download",
          "format": "Video (isolated signs)"
        },
        {
          "name": "ASL Citizen",
          "url": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/asl-citizen/",
          "size": "83,399 videos, 2,731 signs, 52 signers",
          "access": "License agreement",
          "format": "Video (isolated signs)"
        }
      ]
    },
    "aac": {
      "description": "Augmentative and Alternative Communication",
      "datasets": [
        {
          "name": "AAC Conversations",
          "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets (search AAC conversations)",
          "size": "86,000+ simulated conversations",
          "languages": "39",
          "access": "CC-BY-4.0",
          "format": "Text with typing error augmentations"
        },
        {
          "name": "Domesday Dataset",
          "url": "https://equalitytime.github.io/domesdaydataset/",
          "size": "NHS AAC purchases 2006-2012",
          "access": "Open Data Commons Attribution",
          "format": "CSV/Excel"
        }
      ]
    },
    "census_disability": {
      "description": "U.S. Census Bureau disability demographics",
      "datasets": [
        {
          "name": "ACS Disability Characteristics (B18101)",
          "url": "https://api.census.gov/data",
          "coverage": "All states, counties",
          "access": "API (key recommended)",
          "format": "JSON via API",
          "variables": [
            "Total with disability",
            "Hearing difficulty",
            "Vision difficulty",
            "Cognitive difficulty",
            "Ambulatory difficulty",
            "Self-care difficulty",
            "Independent living difficulty"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    "visual_accessibility": {
      "description": "Visual impairment and blind user datasets",
      "datasets": [
        {
          "name": "VizWiz",
          "url": "https://vizwiz.org/tasks-and-datasets/vqa/",
          "size": "Images from blind users + questions",
          "access": "Public download",
          "format": "Images + text questions + answers"
        },
        {
          "name": "VideoA11y-40K",
          "url": "arXiv (search VideoA11y-40K)",
          "size": "40,000 videos with descriptions",
          "access": "Via paper",
          "format": "Video + accessibility descriptions"
        }
      ]
    },
    "clinical_corpora": {
      "description": "TalkBank clinical speech/language databases",
      "datasets": [
        {
          "name": "AphasiaBank",
          "url": "https://talkbank.org/aphasia/",
          "access": "Tiered (public transcripts, member audio/video)",
          "format": "CHAT transcripts + multimedia"
        },
        {
          "name": "DementiaBank",
          "url": "https://dementia.talkbank.org",
          "access": "Tiered",
          "format": "CHAT transcripts + multimedia"
        },
        {
          "name": "FluencyBank",
          "url": "https://fluency.talkbank.org",
          "focus": "Stuttering",
          "access": "Tiered",
          "format": "CHAT transcripts + audio"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}