Oregon Association of the Deaf

The Oregon Association of the Deaf exists to protect and promote the civil rights of the deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, and deaf plus. We seek to promote American Sign Language (ASL) as our cherished language and cultural heritage.

Hello! Check out our new Legislative Action page covering the 2023 Regular Legislative session for Oregon. Let your senators and congressmen/women know which bills you support and how the bills would affect you, that way they can server you better.

Email Newsletter via Google Groups

The surest way to get updates from OAD is to subscribe to our OAD News Google Group.

Two ways to subscribe to the OAD News Google Group.

The first way is to log into Google Groups and then search for our group "OAD News" or by the email address "news@oad1921.org" and request to join.

The second way is to send an email from the email account you want to receive news at. In the to: field type news+subscribe@oad1921.org . No  Subject or body text is needed. Send the email and you should be added as a member to the group.

Three ways to unsubscribe from the OAD News Google Group.

The first way by opening Google Groups,  sign in/switch to the correct account that you want to unsubscribe. My Groups in left panel should be selected. Find the row with the group "OAD News", in the far right will be an icon between a human torso icon and a star icon, it has an arrow pointing left out of a bracket. Click that and you're done.

The second way to unsubscribe is to send an email from the email account you want to unsubscribe. In the to: field type news+unsubscribe@oad1921.org . No  Subject or body text is needed. Send the email and you should be automatically unsubscribed. 

A third way you can unsubscribe and probably the easiest is to to find any email from the OAD News Google group and scroll down to the bottom, there should be a link to unsubscribe in the footer.

YouTube Channel 

News and Announcements in ASL will be posted to OAD's YouTube Channel.

Facebook Page

Video, text, and image posts will be posted to OAD's Facebook Page. Keep in mind that it is not reliable that you will see everything posted or shared on FB depending on your settings and FaceBook's algorithms.