ALDA Ontario

06/13/2025

What do late deafened Canadians want? Do you want to make friends and regain socializing? Do you want access to affordable ASL classes? Do you feel you fall between the cracks as a deafened person? Are you deaf/Deaf/ deafened/ late Deaf or hh? Ya how do you know ? Are you feeling left out and isolated? We tend to bounce around labels bc we are unique and we have unique needs.

If you are in Ottawa come meet me Judith Greaves Wed June 18 where CUPE 2073 is at the CHS office picket line. If Canadian pls message me here. I will discuss the mission of ALDA and the Oct 2025 Convention with you, how to join and apply and scholarship applications if needed. Let’s get started.

06/11/2025

Next week Wed June 18th I am asking all Ottawa Deaf and hard of hearing to come out and support the staff of CHS at 1541 Mariville Rd in Ottawa from 9am to 1pm or in between. Bring signs demanding CHS Board to negotiate with CUPE 2073 for a fair contract fair wages and better services. Let’s show CHS our numbers as clients ! We need our services back. Seven weeks we’ve had no services! Please let me know if you will come below.

06/09/2025

If you live in Montreal Quebec Canada 

06/09/2025

Go out and meet your staff at the picket lines. Write your MPP and ask for help. Share your frustration and stories. This admin here has had housing help on hold now 6 weeks. We need our CHS staff back to work. Show up and join in the picket lines rain or sun. If you are or have lost your hearing pls have a look at alda.org and read about ALDA and how you can find support and friends and meet a family :) Looking for other Canadians to help. Message me here.

06/04/2025

Please write your MPP and the Premier and CHS. Ontario Deaf and hard of hearing we need our services back. Also Canadians look at alda .org we need it here!

Our hearing clinics are closed and audiology services are unavailable due to a labour disruption. Many other services remain available on a priority basis. Click HERE for a full update and list of services available.

06/04/2025

This is helpful information from NAD.

Accessible Remote Work Meetings for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Employees Reuniones de trabajo a distancia accesibles para empleados sordos y con pérdida de audición *developed with a consensus by deaf, hard of hearing, and DeafBlind consumer advocacy organizations and subject matter experts Date of ...

05/24/2025

Support CHS Workers Now!CAD-ASC stands together with workers of the Canadian Hearing Services, in Ontario. They are fighting for fair wages and job security....

05/22/2025

Are you interested in joining the Association of Late Deafened Aldults? Do you have questions? You can email us at ontarioalda@gmail.com or message from right here for more information. ALDA is a good fit for people that are inbetween the Deaf and HH worlds. Are you on the fence too?

Association of Late-Deafened Adults

05/19/2025

An exceptional documentary or film on an important time in 1988 that started a revolution for people with disabilities and the Deaf. On Apple Tv now.

05/12/2025

ALDA has members across a wide range of hearing loss. Some born deaf as well but late-deafened adults are people who were not born deaf, but rather became deaf after they developed language skills. They cannot understand speech without either visual clues or the help of
assistive listening technology, and thus they cannot rely on their unaided hearing as a means of receptive communication. Instead, most late-
deafened adults must generally depend on some visual mode of receptive communication, such as
cued-speech, speechreading, sign language, or text-reading. ALDA’s motto is “Whatever Works” . Come find your family this Oct in Denver Colorado . Contact us right here.

05/10/2025

The "Hands in Commemoration" De'VIA art exhibition, celebrating American Sign Language culture through art, is being held in Belleville, Ontario, showcasing Deaf artists' De'VIA artwork. The exhibition is organized by OSD/SJW alumni in collaboration with the City of Belleville and will take place at the Parrott Gallery and Quinte Arts Council Cultural Hub Gallery in September 2025.