Noun
speech impediment (plural speech impediments)
any speech disorder
When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment. Terry Pratchett
I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy. George Fetherling
I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on. Herschel Walker
P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment. Herschel Walker
I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way to speak, a brand new way of tackling the mind-sets that come with having a speech impediment. Mainly, it teaches you how to slow things down, and that has really helped me. Gareth Gates
I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too. Walter Dean Myers