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From: Melisa McCampbell, SLP student
Date: 21 Oct 2006
Time: 14:35:45 -0500
Remote Name: 168.150.253.55
Greg, Thank you for a fascinating connection to two groups with "hidden disabilities": those who are deaf and persons who stutter. I am a student in speech therapy with an interest in the deaf community and American Sign Language. I am also currently taking a fluency course but never made a connection between the two groups although I can see the many similarities of these two groups now in terms of issues of isolation, and the disability not being readily apparent to someone just looking at the person. In reading through some of the postings, I was hoping to see comments from a deaf person with this problem and get some insight. It is hard to imagine what signed stuttering looks like and I agree with one of your commenters that a video would be really helpful in discussing this. If you do manage to get a grant to do this work, please include personal insights from those who sign and stutter. Do you think there would be differences in the type of sign language they use since the language structure/syntax is different? (For example, ASL vs. See Sign. Thank you for your fascinating paper.