The purpose of this study was to determine whether behavior comparable to stuttering ever occurs in the manual communication of the deaf. Letters were sent to 78 teachers of the deaf at residential schools inquiring whether they had ever observed such behavior in manual communicators. 13 gave positive responses. Descriptions of the stutter-like behaviors provided by these teachers are summarized. Implications are discussed for Bloodstein's hypothesis that stuttering is not unique but one member of a class of behavioral phenomena.
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