Definition of speech-impaired in US English:
speech-impaired
adjectiveˌspēCHimˈperdˌspitʃɪmˈpɛrd
Having a condition that makes it difficult to produce speech sounds correctly.
the student was severely speech-impaired
Example sentencesExamples
- Some speech-impaired people benefit by using the same kind of text telephones used by hearing-impaired people.
- Dyslexic, stuttering and speech-impaired persons participate as equal citizens in this cyber-world.
- A group of speech-impaired actors proves that silence is no barrier to expression.
- The service was introduced in April 2006 to make the reporting of incidents easier for people who are hard of hearing, deaf or speech impaired.
- The audience was mostly hearing- and speech-impaired, save a few interpreters.
- This interpretation service includes claimants who are deaf, hard of hearing, speech-impaired, or do not speak English.
- The United Kingdom's Kent police department offers a service for deaf and speech-impaired people to contact authorities via text message.
- Unlike most people, however, he is profoundly deaf and speech-impaired, which might make his absolute insistence on meeting people in person slightly intriguing, but hardly out of character.