"If you can "huh," you can hear!" This is a phrase I've always heard when conversing with family members and friends. This popular Southern colloquialism never bothered me before but, its recent occurrences became more frequent than normal. I concluded my ear stuffiness to allergies until one day, my mother tapped me on the shoulder, asking "Bri, do you not hear me?" She had spent the past 5 minutes calling my name from across the room with no response from me. In that moment I knew, something was off. This moment catapulted me into personal advocacy as well as, advocacy for educational accommodation accessibility and exploration. Since then, I've been in audio therapy healing, training, and recovering my hearing. As a singer and public speaker, various communication is my life, it's my passion. But now, I'm forced to adapt to new forms of communication. Hence why I am now taking sign language classes. The accessibility of communication and comprehension is a privilege many are born with while others must earn. Working with ADA students during this new phase of my life has opened my eyes to the lack of exposure and lack of accessibility navigating this world. If able to, I'd create a sign language curriculum as an additional -not foreign- language requirement. The hard of hearing community isn't an exotic far off place beyond country borders. It surrounds us thus, prompting a lesson in communication beyond our personal bubble. Teaching sign language to K-12 students will increase cognitive and practical skills. It will improve communication skills, develop multitasking, and enhance cultural awareness in developing students. Because sign language has certain tonal and emotional characteristics, it will teach students how to pick up on on-verbal cues and specific contexts of conversations and messages. It will increase their intention of comprehension and urge for productive communication. Sign language can also improve motor skills and neural multitasking of signing, hand-eye coordination, reception, and response. Lastly, it will enhance cultural awareness of different ability communities. Expanding their exposure to deaf/hard-of-hearing communities will allow them to develop perspectives of embracing differences, inclusion, or even advocacy. This exposure can spill over into other differences of culture including, but not limited to gender, race, religion etc. As a current educator of differing communities, I reimagine education that’s inclusive and accommodating of all students. Students can think, communicate, and innovate without obstacles as simple as a conversation. The world flourishes when educational exploration is awarded to all. Preparing and teaching our students to collaborate with their peers beyond their born abilities with courses like sign language can lay a foundation of an educated society unifying us all.