Non-dominant, one-handed signing

[Des Power]

Remember that us two-handed fingerspellers can fingerspell on the
nondominant hand too :-) - just as Mark says, when the other hand is
"encumbered" with a broom, glass :-), etc. (or missing; I know of at least
one Deaf man who lost most of his non-dominant fingers in a sawmilling
accident). The dominant hand just spells the words out on a "ghost hand"
thats not actually there - across about the same size space it would be if
there was a nondominant hand there.

Des
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> I recall the term "encumbered signing", referring to signing when one
> hand is occupied with driving, holding, etc. How well do the
> conventional adaptations for this common situation adapt to the
> comparable situation here?
>
> -- Mark A. Mandel, Ph.D., d/b/a Dr. Whom
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