Loss of speech

Date: November 1999

Definition:

Total permanent and irreversible loss of the ability to speak as a result of physical injury or disease.

 

Date: July 1999

Definition:

Total permanent loss of the ability to speak as a result of physical injury or disease.

 

Definition update history:

Loss of speech May 2011

Loss of speech July 2009

Loss of speech April 2007

Loss of speech November 2003

Loss of speech May 2003

Loss of speech March 2003

Loss of speech April 2002

Loss of speech July 2001

Loss of speech November 2000

Loss of speech November 1999

Loss of speech July 1999

Loss of speech February 1998