While the pacing board can help in providing cues for including syllables that are omitted, it is less helpful in helping the child cut down on the number of syllables when he is using extra syllables. So, if the pacing board had 3 dots for banana, your son might point to the 3 dots for his first 3 syllables, but then still be saying more syllables even though he ran out of dots. The pacing board can help develop the awareness that there are 3 syllables in the word banana, but does not help in stopping the flow of syllables . But, if what your son is demonstrating is developmental apraxia of speech, there are very specific methods that can be used in treatment . The goal of the treatment is to help the child learn to sequence sounds and to be able to produce a longer string of sounds.
Therapy progresses from shorter to longer sound sequences in a very organized treatment plan.
Easy Does It for Apraxia-Preschool and Easy Does It for Apraxia from LinguiSystems and Becoming Verbal and Intelligible by Therapy Skill Builders are resources that are designed specifically to treat children who are experiencing developmental apraxia of speech. Talk with the speech language pathologist in your sons school or seek a professional in private practice, or a university or hospital setting. This is a complex speech and language problem that requires professional guidance . Q. My daughter has a large tongue, and she has difficulty keeping her tongue in her mouth. When she speaks, it is always jutting out, and she is hard to understand.