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From: Stu.Turk@f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Stu Turk)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: How hard is it to learn to sign?
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Date: 7 May 91 16:23:55 GMT
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 AA>  From: allana@hpmwtd.hp.com (Allan Armstrong)
 AA>  I have a friend who is hearing impaired. Although her lip reading and
 AA>  speech is _very_ impressive, even inspiring, I'm dabbling with the idea
 AA>  of learning to sign. So I'd like a little information.
   The thing is, does you're friend know (and use) sign language?    Not
everyone who is good at lipreading is also good at signing.
   As for how hard it is, its probably hard to say because it depends on your
learing skills and how old you are.

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