California Association of the Deaf

California Association of the Deaf supports the Deaf Bilingual Coalition’s goals to promote acquisition of American Sign Language (ASL) in Deaf babies and children and to protest the Audio-Verbal Therapy (AVT) which excludes ASL, currently promoted by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf. Research has shown that hearing children are benefitting much from signs in their early years, but Deaf babies are systematically being denied their natural visual language. We believe fluency in ASL increases opportunities for increased fluency in written English as well as spoken English. For additional information about the Deaf Bilingual Coalition, please go to www.deafbilingualcoalition.com. We hope you will join us in supporting this endeavor. If you wish to make a tax-deductible donation to Deaf Bilingual Coalition’s work, please either send a check made out to “CAD” (be sure to put “DBC” on the memo line) OR donate through PayPal by clicking on the link below. Thank you very much!