I have tried getting the kids to do ASL with home school, but with daughter's memory problems, she has difficulties and son would prefer to fingerspell all day. The biggest issue with my mother is, she has beginnings of dementia. We do use CC on TV, and I do have telephones with lights that flash when ringing. I also use a CapTel phone for captioned calls. Hubby is trying (very), but he has really mastered "coffee start please" for each morning and little things like that. Mostly it's my mother and I think it's just too hard for her with having me be able to hear for 43 years, then to lose it just as she starts having major illness that bring on her dementia.
I already keep and pad of paper and pencil wth me at all times.
What I think is funny is that I have been trying realy hard to learn ASL and with my going over what I have learned, I find I'm doing it in my sleep. I will have a conversation with myself in my sleep and use sign language. Daughter (who sleeps in our room due to lack of space in house) will wake up and see, then get flashlight and wake me up to tell me to "Stop!! and go to sleep!!"
