Some home signs at home, tiny amount of ASL and mostly spoken English. Hub born hoh/deaf<think it is a "severe loss">, raised Hearing in a small, rural community. Early in the years he first knew me, I had a part time job working with deaf kids at a recreational program - part time Summer job during college. It was his first exposure to the idea of "Deaf community". We were probably in our 20's around then. Now in our 40's. I started being aware of hearing changes personally maybe about 6 years ago and am now hoh. Hub wears bilateral digital Resounds; I do not use aids at the moment. I am a strongly visual-oriented person and have auditory processing<born very premature, have speech and language differences; grew up with un-diagnosed learning disabilities> issues in addition to hoh so my actual preference would be to sign, though I have very little vocab. Hub is extremely verbal, tends to have difficulty with change. He is also partially sighted. His preference is speech. He took an ASL class a few years back with me, taught by a Deaf couple. We enjoyed the class but he seems to have a much stronger auditory learning style than I do. Because of how he was raised and possibly he may be on the Spectrum also<number of traits that make me suspicious> , so it's hard for him to learn sign.
When with deaf/Deaf people - depends on makeup of the group-
