(crosspost) sign language & aphasia

[Mark Mandel]

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Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 18:29:13 +0200
From: Sean Golden <sgolden at cc.uab.es>
Subject: QS: sign language & aphasia


I recall having read recently that studies of aphasia in signers (sign
language users) in Japan had revealed problems in the recognition of words
that were written phonetically (problems of recognition similar to those
experienced by speakers when confronted with written text), but that they
siffered no impairmanet of their ability to recognise ideograms (kanji,
Chinese written characters). Can anyone supply me with any bibliographical
references on this topic?


Dr. Sean Golden
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