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Stuck On The Tip Of My Thumb: Stuttering In American Sign Language, Geoffrey Whitebread
Stuck On The Tip Of My Thumb: Stuttering In American Sign Language, Geoffrey Whitebread
Undergraduate University Honors Capstones
This thesis aims to stimulate research on articulation disorders in American Sign Language. It discusses the controversy surrounding a clinical definition of stuttering, reviews the symptoms of stuttering in spoken languages, and examines theories of the etiology of stuttering. Ten well-connected individuals in the Deaf community were interviewed and presented a list of possible symptoms of stuttering in American Sign Language (ASL). (As a preliminary investigation, this study did not attempt to directly observe any stuttering in ASL.) Participants responded with how they thought symptoms might look in ASL and whether they had seen examples in real life. A refined …