paceboard
nounEtymology From pace + board.
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Medicine, Sciences A board marked with symbols, used to help a person with multiple sclerosis to time their speaking so as to be clearly intelligible.
- However, because this method, as well as the actual paceboard itself, was too cumbersome, we moved to a less rigid method of rate control following one month of this technique.1982, Clinical Aphasiology: Proceedings of the Conference, page 141:
- A simple paceboard, consisting of a pattern of rectangles set next to each other, may slow the person's speech and allow for improved intelligibility. The person points to each square while uttering a single syllable.2007, Randall T. Schapiro, Managing the Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis, page 54: