Definition of Speech disorder

1. Noun. A disorder of oral speech.


Definition of Speech disorder

1. Noun. (pathology)  Any mental or bodily malfunction that makes expressing oneself by speech difficult. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Speech Disorder

speech audiometer
speech audiometry
speech balloon
speech balloons
speech bubble
speech bubbles
speech bulb
speech centres
speech communication
speech community
speech day
speech defect
speech discrimination tests
speech disfluencies
speech disfluency
speech disorder (current term)
speech disorders
speech impediment
speech intelligibility
speech organ
speech pathologist
speech pathology
speech pattern
speech perception
speech production
speech production measurement
speech reception threshold test
speech recognition
speech rhythm
speech sound

Literary usage of Speech disorder

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Journal of Public Speaking (1917)
"PSYCHOLOGICAL PARALLELISMS BETWEEN speech disorder AND ORAL ENGLISH1 WALTER B. SWIFT, MD Harvard Graduate School of Medicine BY PSYCHOLOGICAL parallelisms ..."

2. Speech Defects in School Children and how to Treat Them by Walter Babcock Swift (1918)
"them by speech disorder. For example, take the ministry. ... All this leads us naturally to the conclusion that speech disorder in the adult ..."

3. Speech Defects in School Children and how to Treat Them by Walter Babcock Swift (1918)
"them by speech disorder. For example, take the ministry. ... All this leads us naturally to the conclusion that speech disorder in the adult results in an ..."

4. Speech Defects in School Children and how to Treat Them by Walter Babcock Swift (1918)
"them by speech disorder. For example, take the ministry. ... All this leads us naturally to the conclusion ] that speech disorder in the adult results in an ..."

5. Substance Use Disorder Treatment for People with Physical and Cognitive by Dennis Moore (2000)
"speech disorder. A condition in which a person has limited or difficult speech ... Use child who has a speech disorder. For a person with no verbal speech ..."

6. On Aphasia, Being a Contribution to the Subject of the Dissolution of Speech by James Ross (1887)
"The case of James Leo1 (Case 5), is a good example of this speech disorder. If the first temporo-sphenoidal convolution is thoroughly disorganised, ..."

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