About

The community established the Bay Area Asian Deaf Association (BAADA) in June 1995. Since that time, BAADA has hosted Lunar New Year celebrations, held General Assembly meetings, Asian Tea Parties and Asian Deaf Identity workshops. BAADA continues to strive to serve the Asian Deaf people with meaningful social, recreational and educational opportunities. The BAADA program reaches out to deaf and hard of hearing children, adults and their families from the entire San Francisco Bay Area. BAADA hosts social and recreational activities, and workshops on various Asian Deaf Cultures. BAADA members use a range of communication modes including American Sign Language (ASL) and their native sign languages from Asia countries. Many BAADA members come from a home in which English is not the first language, and bring to the program the language and culture of their Asian country.