Special Issue: Technology that "helps" Deaf people

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After learning sign for four months, I asked someone Deaf at a store where to find an item, and they tried to communicate with me, but I was having over-processing issues from all the new things happening at once, and they borrowed a phone from someone to type their words in text. This made the conversation much clearer, but it removed signing from the conversation entirely. How do new signers gain confidence in signing if we keep pulling out all the fancy tech?