As someone who has grown up being able to hear and to maintain conversations, I have elected to not attempt to learn sign language. I did glance at a book once and have sat in services where there was someone doing sign language but the phrasing and overall sentence structure seemed strange.
If you have experienced a gradual loss of hearing only during the past few years, consider using lip reading to enhance your listening skills. It isn’t as hard as it sounds. Focus on the person who is talking and watch the variation in the lips as words are formed. This only works really well on a one-to-one basis or maybe in small groups of no more than three. The idea is to listen to what is being said and to use the lip shapes and clues to fill in any sections which you may have missed.
I actually didn’t notice that I was doing this until someone pointed it out. It had become second hand nature to me so that I did it without thinking. What the person noticed was that I would use the lips to help discern between “lamb”, “land”, and” lamp”. Since everyone doesn’t pronounce words clearly with special emphasis on the ending sound, it worked. It was not an issue with people who spoke clearly.
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