Mateo was like many students, neither fluent in English nor in American Sign Language (ASL) and significantly delayed in literacy skills. At Model Secondary School for the Deaf (MSSD), he was provided with emerging signers services to develop his expressive and receptive ASL skills. He was also provided with speech and language services by a bilingual, Spanish-speaking speech-language pathologist. This included the use of listening devices that changed text to speech (TTS) and speech to text (STT). TTS is an assistive technology in which the computer reads aloud text on the screen. STT is available on the electronic devices people use every day. People use STT when they ask Siri or Alexa to check the weather or play a song. This article presents how TTS and STT have proven to be valuable tools for Mateo and other Deaf and hard of hearing students with adequate access to spoken language.