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From: John Tetnowski
Date: 21 Oct 2008
Time: 20:15:04 -0500
Remote Name: 74.171.126.240
Tom, Great question, and your comments do not surprise me. I do not have all of my resources in front of me right now, but I seem to recall a paper quite a few years ago related to stuttering in deaf individuals (I will look up the reference). The deaf clients who stuttered when using oral communication, also had some hesitancies when they also just used manual sign language. In a study by DeNil et al., (2000), they found activation in the brains of PWS to be different from matched nonstutterers. The pattern continued even when the speaker silently read the stimuli. This seems to indicate that stuttering occurs at the cortical level. Therefore, it does not surprise me to hear that your blind PWS had some differences. Finally, I wish that you would summarize your findings and get them published someplace. I would love to see your results and would be willing to help you get them in order so that we can all share in your most interesting findings. If you wish to contact me, my e-mail is tetnowski@louisiana.edu Great work! Happy ISAD! Sincerely, John Tetnowski