The mission of the Association of Late Deafened Adults (ALDA) is to support the empowerment of late deafened people.

ALDA Puget Sound supports deafened and hard of hearing individuals and their families through out the Greater Puget Sound area and welcomes all visitors. Click here or the link above to join and a membership form will pop up in a new window.

Late Deafened Adults are people who have lost their hearing in any degree after having acquired spoken language. ALDA members may or may not use hearing aids, may or may not use assistive listening devices, may or may not use cochlear implants and may or may not use sign language. What ALDA members DO is 'whatever works'. This is the philosophy that keeps the doors to ALDA wide open to anyone who is interested.

• ALDA is committed to providing a support network and a sense of belonging to late deafened people, sharing our unique experiences, challenges and coping strategies, helping one another find practical solutions and psychological relief, and working together with other organizations and service providers for our common good.
• ALDA provides networking through local chapters and groups as well as our annual conference (ALDAcon) to be held next year in Seattle, WA October 13-18, 2009. ALDA provides social activities, advocacy, peer support, up-to-date information on new technology, and guidance for late-deafened adults, their families and friends on ways to deal effectively with the difficulties arising from losing our hearing.
• ALDA is all inclusive and never exclusive. ALDA supports all methods of communication and focuses on helping individual live successfully with hearing loss.