The phrase "avoids speaking about" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's tendency to not address a particular topic or subject.
Example: "She often avoids speaking about her past experiences, preferring to focus on the present."
Alternatives: "steers clear of discussing" or "refrains from talking about".
How to approach his religion, a topic that he usually avoids speaking about beyond the most general terms, is a question that has long divided his campaign staff.
It avoids speaking about James's professional career with the Cleveland Cavaliers (he was the National Basketball Association's most valuable player last season) almost entirely.
However, this work avoids speaking about minor salmonellosis and especially giardiasis, which constitute locally two main etiologies of acute, subacute, and chronic diarrheas in my Djiboutian experience.
He is still is afraid of being outspoken about his family situation because he fears being stigmatized – and avoids speak about the HIV-status of his mother at his school.
With some exceptions she avoided speaking about Grant, who married twice more and had a daughter with his fourth wife, actress Dyan Cannon, before his death in 1986.
"I think that he is trying to avoid speaking about the issues and coming up with clear answers," Ms. Connelly said in an interview.
You report (news article, April 11) that Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said after a women's event that he had avoided speaking about women's issues, suggesting that doing so would be "pandering".
We were at a bar talking, and out of respect I had avoided speaking about the burning of the souk, about the latest gruesome report of late numbers of bodies found bound, tortured, murdered, and thrown in heaps like garbage on the streets of his home town.
This is why scholars increasingly try to avoid speaking about "natural disasters" and rather refer only to "disasters" or "natural hazards".
Schale recalled a time not long ago when Democratic candidates for statewide office in Florida would avoid speaking about guns entirely.
"Government officials will avoid speaking about religion, even privately, lest a court discover statements that could be used to ascribe a religious motivation to their future actions," Niemeyer wrote.
