The Canadian Association of the Deaf (CAD;
French
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: ''Association des sourds du Canada'', ASC) is a Canadian
non-governmental organization
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that works to promote the interests and well-being of the
Deaf community
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in
Canada
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. It represents users of both
American Sign Language
American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States of America and most of Anglophone Canada. ASL is a complete and organized visual language that is expre ...
and
Quebec Sign Language.
[Canadian Association of the Deaf]
Language
Retrieved April 8, 2020. It was founded in 1940 through a joint effort by the Western Canada, the Ontario, and the Eastern Canada associations of the Deaf, with the support of the Montreal Association of the Deaf.
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CanadaHelps.org. Retrieved 8 April 2020.[Canadian Association of the Deaf]
History
Retrieved April 8, 2020.
History
The Canadian Association of the Deaf was founded in 1940 in order to create and administer a fund that could provide scholarships to Deaf persons in Canada who did not live in regions that currently provided them.
In 1970, the CAD successfully won funding from the
Canadian Department of Communications to begin a Captioned Films and Telecommunications Program for Canada. It hosted a conference on
captioning in Washington in 1975, and two more conferences in Canada in 1978. A partnership with the Department of Communications and the
National Film Board
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in 1981 led to the creation of The Canadian Captioning Development Agency (CCDA), which for a time was the only such agency in Canada.
[Canadian Communications Foundation]
"Closed Captioning on Canadian Television"
''History of Canadian Broadcasting''. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
On May 12, 1989, inspired in part by the
Deaf President Now protests the previous year,
[Barnartt Sharon N. (2008)]
Social Movement Diffusion? The Case of Disability Protests in the US and Canada
''Disability Studies Quarterly'', 28(1). Retrieved April 8, 2020. the CAD organized the National Deaf Education Day rally in several locations across the country to raise support for Deaf educators and sign language instruction in Deaf schools.
In 2003, the Canadian Association of the Deaf hosted the 14th
World Congress of the
World Federation of the Deaf in
Montreal
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,
during which the
World Association of Sign Language Interpreters was established.
[World Association of Sign Language Interpreters]
History
Retrieved April 8, 2020.
See also
*
Edmonton Association of the Deaf
*
World Federation of the Deaf
References
External links
*
Deafness rights organizations
Deaf culture in Canada
Organizations based in Ottawa
Organizations established in 1940
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