speech defect

'One of the negative effects of forcing left-handed children to switch to the right hand is the speech defect that it causes.

I've never had a speech defect but I got called 'Deaf Steph' at school and because I often didn't know people were talking to me I'd walk right past them and they assumed I was snooty.

"I had a speech defect when I was small, so I couldn't communicate with anyone," she said.

He must use every ounce of his spirit to tame his speech defect, knowing, at heart, that it will not go away.

The daft treatment for his speech defect didn't do him any favours.

After spinning out of control and colliding with another car, she suffered a broken neck that left her with a speech defect and an injury that meant she would never be able to walk unsupported.

Despite their self-perceived flaws, like Moses' speech defect, all children have the potential to be great leaders.

There is a knife-wielding mother who suffers from a speech defect (the title of the play means 'funny mirrors') due to a stroke.

Latterly, as her hearing declined, she insisted that "I should do something about my worsening speech defect."

Because of his speech defect, he couldn't yell for help."

He imitates the pronunciation of a person with a serious speech defect and of a child with severe cerebral palsy.

Professor Arulogun, in an inaugural lecture she delivered at the University of Ibadan, entitled 'The power of the Hybrid' said hoarseness, a change in the normal speech pitch, is speech defect and one of the symptoms of various head and neck cancers.

'We want to see them earlier because then it reduces the trauma, the psychological impact on them,' she says, adding that patients who are treated before they can speak avoid 'ngongo' or a speech defect.

Alyn Haskey, of Nottingham, pictured with some of the pupils, spent his early years fighting against severe disability, including a severe speech defect. Education was considered a waste of time, but at 14 he became a Christian and his life began to change.

"It took years for me to realise I had a speech defect, but it was made very clear to me when I took the job that I had one.