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I learned to sign when I became the nanny for a 2 month old little girl who was hard of hearing at 6 weeks she had hearing aids but we wanted her to be able to communicate with out her aids in. So we contacted early intervention and set up to have a teacher come to the house and teach us ASL our teacher was hard of hearing but only signed she didn't speak because both of her parents where deaf and she grew up signing so in class we where not allowed to speak we could only sign if we didn't know the sign for something that we where trying to say we had to act out or finger spell what we wanted to know and she would give us the sign for it. I feel like this was a great way to learn because we had to sign we couldn't use verbal words at all because she didn't understand and refused to read our lips!