Sentence examples for overcome speech from inspiring English sources

Dr. Hart was a graduate student at the University of Kansas in the 1960s when she began trying to help poor preschool children overcome speech and vocabulary deficits.

Perhaps those of us who stutter but are theatrically challenged may find that a career in education is both rewarding and helps to overcome speech impediments.

Eight days after Pettus Bridge, Lyndon Johnson delivered his "We Shall Overcome" speech to Congress, an example of Presidential oratory arguably unsurpassed in idealism and emotional impact.

Taylor Branch, describing the night of Johnson's "We Shall Overcome" speech, describes the frantic, late revisions — "the pale aides who raced between typewriters … a motorcade waiting to transport him to the Capitol".

Taylor Branch, describing the night of Johnson's "We Shall Overcome" speech, describes the frantic, late revisions—"the pale aides who raced between typewriters … a motorcade waiting to transport him to the Capitol".

That was the spring of the Alabama march from Selma to Montgomery and Lyndon Johnson's astonishing "We Shall Overcome" speech.

"The King's Speech," which won the Academy Award for best picture in 2011, familiarized the moviegoing public with another likable stutterer, King George VI of Britain, and the speech therapist who helped him overcome his speech disorder.

Colin Firth, who won for Best Actor, starred as King George VI, a stuttering King of England who must overcome his speech impediment to deliver a speech and inspire a downtrodden country as Nazi bombs rain down.

(It is sometimes used to help treat stuttering, Dr. Langer said, citing the movie "The King's Speech" in which King George VI sang to overcome his speech impediment).

Last year the audience prize for best motion picture went to Tom Hooper's "The King's Speech," starring Colin Firth as a stammering British royal pressed to overcome a speech disorder to rally his empire at war.

King George VI may have overcome his speech impediment for a crucial radio broadcast in the feel-good movie of last year, but slow ticket sales for the theatrical version means the curtain will fall for the last time next month.