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<font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">My contribution to this is only an observation. I once had a student, about 15-18 years old (he was my student for two or three years) who definitely stuttered in his signing. He did have a CP problem on top of his deafness, but to me it seemed as if the stuttering was not due to the CP. He even stuttered while writing on his computer - first syllable twice, or the whole word repeated. In signing, he started, and then started over, before the sign or the utterance
was completed. - This seemed to cause him some trouble in communication with other deaf students. I have mentioned this observation to colleagues who are working with stuttering and speech impediment, and they have a hard time believing that my observation could be correct. But as I said, he was my student for at least two years, and this was a persistent problem.<br />
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Kind regards,<br />
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Ingvild Roald, dr. philos, former science/math teacher, Norway<br />
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