Are there any tools to help a kid slow down their talking?

I have a 7 year old IEP kid with some speech development issues. He's about 75% of where he needs to be. One of the big problems is he talks so quick that his words get jumbled together and are near impossible to understand unless you know him. We've tried the "slow down." "slow down!" and it doesn't help.

Are there any metronomes or anything that help pace speech? Or....if I did use a metronome app, what duration should the beats be set to?

I'm worried that if he does something like this and it's too slow, it will turn into a bad habit and when he's 40 he....will.....be.....talking...this....slow.

I'm probably going to start with single words and then move into sentences.

So... uh, any advice?

Submitted March 27, 2020 at 10:27AM by eerfree https://ift.tt/2y8VQ3v