If a person fluent in ASL were to have a stroke that affected primarily the language center involved in coordinating the production of speech (but not its comprehensibility), what effect with this have on the person's ability to sign? What effect would this have on a person's ability to knit or perform other complex manual tasks?
What will be an ideal response?
This person would be able to make sense, but only slowly and laboriously. Other complex motor tasks unconnected to language would be unaffected. A person who could knit before could knit afterwards.
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