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Kim

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12/17/2025
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I am not hearing impaired but am speech impaired. My husband is not speech impaired and is not deaf but is quite hard of hearing. I have unilateral vocal chord paralysis with weak voice and tendency for laryngospasms. We just started learning the alphabet and can only fingerspell slowly. He is not speech impaired. Plan is, he will read my signs and speak for me in public. Am on Section 1, ABC 2. Have learned 19 of 26 letters. Years of learning still ahead but one step at a time.

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Royal

12/17/2025

good luck!

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Asl Rocks 🎹🧶

12/17/2025

That is awesome will be hoping that you can learn fast and be able to communicate to the best of your ability God bless 😁😉

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Rose

12/18/2025

Wonderful that you ard learning ASL. This is a great app to do that.

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Asl Rocks 🎹🧶

12/18/2025

How have you been doing ?

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Kim

12/18/2025

Thank you ASL rocks. We know the full alphabet now. Next, food and numbers then done with Section 1. Need a tip on how to signal my husband that I am done spelling one word and going to start spelling the next.

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Sing and Sign 🎹🎹🙏

12/19/2025

That is great 💯👍👍👍

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Sing and Sign 🎹🎹🙏

12/19/2025

I am so proud I changed my username and my image but I am the same person 😅😅😅

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Cailyn L

12/19/2025

you could always hold you hands out, or me and my friends will have the non dominant hand out and the dominant hand turned to the side and hit the open palm

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Yvonne Mitchell

12/19/2025

Great Replys ASL community 😍 Another suggestion for signing the next word you could sign next or choose a sign you like cool with the understanding it means I'm signing the next word the more you master ASL😀the more natural your conversations will become and he'll instinctively understand the difference between the words 😘

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Jada

12/20/2025

You can do this Kim! We're all cheering you on from here! That's so nice to hear of you and your husband partnering together and I hope your having fun learning together.

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Kim

12/20/2025

Thank you for all the support. We have the alphabet down and a learning a few gestures so far. On Section 2 now

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Ian

12/21/2025

that is awesome! thats a beautiful thing yall are doing by working together on this.

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