Being deaf without speech does not mean being deaf-and-stupid.

He was never ashamed of being deaf without speech when he moved in society, and mingled with deaf people on every possible occasion.

Fred Mitchell was born deaf without speech at Calshot Castle, Hampshire, in 1845 and was educated at the Old Kent Road Institution in London.

Esther Dyson, a pretty deaf woman aged 23 without any speech, who worked at a thread-mill in Ecclesfield and lived with her brother, who was also deaf without speech, was accused of the murder.

Together these substantial granite-fronted buildings (linked with a new foyer and shop in 1998) form an imposing street frontage at the centre of the historic city of Truro; both buildings were designed by the local architect Philip Sambell who was deaf without speech.