I wanted to just post some appreciation and awareness on something because my s/o is deaf. I see nothing out of my left eye and absolutely minimally out of my right. He speaks out loud but is more comfortable using aslto express himself.
He has learned how to sign into hands and taught me to do asl like that. It works in a way that I understand sign language by loosely his hand while he signs. He corrects my fingers when I sign and I can sign back to him. He obviously sees fine so he doesn't have to hold my hands to understand me.
It was harder for me to learn the alphabet than to learn words because so many letters are so similar with finger placement but it is doable!