Definitions
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- adjective not
speaking
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not capable of or especially not involving speech or spoken lines
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Examples
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By some estimates, only 20 nonspeaking people with autism have ever earned a college degree.
Ralph James Savarese: The Silver Trumpet Of Freedom Ralph James Savarese 2011
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Tito Mukhopadhyay, author of three books and perhaps the world's most renowned nonspeaking autist, puts it this way: "My school is the doubt in your eyes."
Ralph James Savarese: The Silver Trumpet Of Freedom Ralph James Savarese 2011
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Tito Mukhopadhyay, author of three books and perhaps the world's most renowned nonspeaking autist, puts it this way: "My school is the doubt in your eyes."
Ralph James Savarese: The Silver Trumpet Of Freedom Ralph James Savarese 2011
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My son, DJ, recently used this passage as an epigraph for his college admission essay, comparing his predicament as a nonspeaking person with autism who had been taught to read and to type on a computer to that of a famous, mid-19th century American slave.
Ralph James Savarese: The Silver Trumpet Of Freedom Ralph James Savarese 2011
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Tito Mukhopadhyay, author of three books and perhaps the world's most renowned nonspeaking autist, puts it this way: "My school is the doubt in your eyes."
Ralph James Savarese: The Silver Trumpet Of Freedom Ralph James Savarese 2011
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He wants to be the first nonspeaking autist to go away volitionally to school.
Ralph James Savarese: The Silver Trumpet Of Freedom Ralph James Savarese 2011
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By some estimates, only 20 nonspeaking people with autism have ever earned a college degree.
Ralph James Savarese: The Silver Trumpet Of Freedom Ralph James Savarese 2011
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Every member of PICT's 14-person cast not counting the eight children who have nonspeaking roles in "Garden" is wholly believable, though never predictable.
Ayckbourn, Indoors and Out Terry Teachout 2011
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By some estimates, only 20 nonspeaking people with autism have ever earned a college degree.
Ralph James Savarese: The Silver Trumpet Of Freedom Ralph James Savarese 2011
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He wants to be the first nonspeaking autist to go away volitionally to school.
Ralph James Savarese: The Silver Trumpet Of Freedom Ralph James Savarese 2011
fbharjo commented on the word nonspeaking
Infantile part, I surmise
September 5, 2010
bilby commented on the word nonspeaking
Arise, Sur Mise!
September 5, 2010