
1st NAD Convention
August 25, 2026
August 25, 1880 — First convention of the National Association of the Deaf, which met in Cincinnati, Ohio. Edmund Booth, Edwin A. Hodgson, and Robert P. McGregor were the co-founders of NAD, the first national membership organization in US to defend rights of deaf people to quality education, using sign language as their main communication medium. www.nad.org