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The main purpose of the Deaf Bilingual Coalition is to emphasize the importance of the social, emotional, linguistic, and cognitive aspects (of ASL) pertaining to early visual language acquisition for all Deaf infants and young children.

The secondary purpose is to make the general public aware of the prevalence of misconceptions and misinformation that devalues ASL.

Updated November 29, 2010

The goals of the Deaf Bilingual Coalition are as follows:

1. Establish language acquisition, social justice, and quality education through ASL/English bilingualism by empowering stakeholders to advocate and promote legislative action in support of ASL
2. Inform Deaf people, parents, teachers, and medical personnel of the importance of ASL and to spread awareness of research-based evidence and experience-based testimonials that support the importance of ASL
3. Collaborate with others to help parents and their Deaf children to awaken from a state of victimization and to promote ASL

Updated November 29, 2010

The DBC will continue to empower families to focus on their Deaf childʼs language so that their child may grow up in a language-rich environment full of ASL and English bilingually in order to have an abundance of life experiences. Those experiences should include possessing self-confidence and self worth, a strong identity, skills in independent and critical thinking, an ability to problem solve, and an awareness of Deaf culture, community, and history.