paceboard

English

From pace +‎ board.

paceboard (plural paceboards)

(medicine) A board marked with symbols, used to help a person with multiple sclerosis to time their speaking so as to be clearly intelligible.
- 1982, Clinical Aphasiology: Proceedings of the Conference, page 141:
  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.
- 2007, Randall T. Schapiro, Managing the Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis, page 54:
  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.

paceboard (uncountable)