Answer to: How Far Would You Go to Accommodate non-Verbal Colleague?

What do you think is the best way forward? Should I just suck it up, and learn sign language (in my own time) to be inclusive? What's wrong with just corresponding in writing (in English/your local language)? It's rare for anyone involved in any kind of computer "engineering" to spend much of their time talking, relative to the amount of time spent on cognitive work interacting with machinery or materials. Most talking occurs in writing if possible, for a number of important reasons, and being deaf-mute would be considered a very small impediment. I think you'll just have to get with it and converse by text.