Abstract
This chapter focuses on the problems faced in sign language research, which come from both within and without. Extrinsic problems might be arbitrary when a source of funding discourages or forbids scientific curiosity about signing. Such extrinsic problems either have an institutional source such as from the nature of educational establishments and those of their subsystems devoted to teaching the deaf or a popular source such as from the ideas, beliefs, and misconceptions that most persons have about gesture and sign language. The problems intrinsic to sign language research are also of two kinds. A few affect the practice of the research and others are problems of theory. Practical problems may appear troublesome, but they often yield to ingenuity and the passage of time. Theoretical problems will sooner or later frustrate sign language research, but considering them fully may well advance knowledge of things worth knowing.
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