LUCE,
I thought that was what I remembered from our correspondence.
When I was your age, I learned sign language from a neato old dude that was my current age. He was confined to a mental hospital I was working at as a pre med student. Nobody else in this hospital could sign. he had been there 30 years with no one to talk to.
signing is totally different today then it was then, I have noticed.
Today I mostly read lips after playing a lot of Tooooo loud music for the last 68 years
Hope you get a great present
Bill the Bebop