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Originally Posted by deafskeptic
My father has a stutter and he is hearing. He speaks slowly to me so I won't have to struggle to understand his stuttering. I don't think stuttering is at all related to deafness in this family. To my knowledge, he's the only only member of this family who stutters.
Sometimes my mother or me have trouble coming up with the correct word or phrase. Sometimes I have trouble thinking of the right sign and I know that sign too.
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There have been cases of stroke victims who have developed stutters following their stroke because of word recall difficulties. There are also cases of signers who stutter. All stuttering doesn't follow the same pattern. It is not always the b-b-b-b-b-big pattern, for example. Excessive pauses in speech fluency is also diagnosed as stuttering, or excessive word insertion into one's speech. For example, I had an anthropology prof who had suffered a stroke, and had some word recall problems.About every 10th word, he would insert "you know" while his brain took the time to recall the word he needed. If he got excited about the subject he was talking about, it would get worse. The first couple of classes in a term, it would be very distracting. But his lectures were so interesting ( he had done lots of field work, and his lectures were based on his extensive experience) that soon, I didn't even notice that he was stuttering.