Oh what a difference a comma can make.

In your sentence there is no pause. So the question is actually saying, “What do you call it when you don’t have the ability to speak like Helen Keller? Instead you speak like everyone else. (Helen Keller could only make noises, like grunting and such)” Also I suspect you meant to put the comma in there as a pause. I know the difference is being picky. But the English language is a very picky mistress.

Also Mute is an old term. The term used today is “Speach impared” or “Verbally Challenged”.

mute –

1. silent; refraining from speech or utterance.

2. not emitting or having sound of any kind.

3. incapable of speech.

Helen Keller was deaf and blind she was not mute.

Quote from Helen Keller –

“Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others’ lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.” (from The Story of My Life, 1903)

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Helen Keller was a deafblind woman who, despite the loss of her sight and hearing as a toddler and the obstacles of her time, learned to read, write, and even to speak.

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In 1890 Keller was taught to speak by Sarah Fuller of the Horace Mann School.

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This better be a Clean and Nice Joke here.

Remember, she could not help being Mute, Blind and Deaf.

Poor gal was born that was 🙁

is the lay term.

doctors probably have a latin or medical term for it.