Deaf and Hard of Hearing Resources

If you are deaf and want to go to an A.A. meeting, please email us at accessability@aa-dc.org, and we will try to help.

Closed Captioning: Zoom-hosted meetings have a closed caption ing feature that can be enabled for any meeting. Meeting hosts need to Enable Live Transcript and individual participants can then select to turn on Live Transcription. Instructions here.

If the Zoom host has not turned on this feature, please advise the Accessibility Committee at the above email address so that we can contact the host and correct the situation.

Washington DC Area On-line meetings with American Sign Language interpreters

Tuesday 6:00 PM, 1 or 2 Tuesdays per month Queer and Sober 12 & 12      Zoom 862 3820 5286, password 194679

Wednesday 9:30 PM, Fifth Dimension AKA 5D Zoom meeting ID 687 118 144, no password required.

Washington DC Area In person meetings with ASL interpreters

Monday: 7;15 PM Gay Gay 3rd Friday of the Month ONLY

St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 728 23rd St NW, DC

Friday 6:15 PM Radicals, Neighborhood Church 16501 Redland Rd. Derwood, MD, Jenni W interprets here on a regular basis and has given permission to list her phone number for texting: 301-300-2242

Area 29 – Maryland Deaf Access Committee
http://mdacaa.org – Maryland Deaf Access Committee
Focus is to help with access to “in person” AA meetings in Maryland

Resources for Deaf alcoholics in the USA/Canadahttp://deafaa.org – .

Other sources for listing of ASL interpreted Zoom Meetings:

The AA Deaf Intergroup of Central Texas at centexdeafintergroup.org/resources maintains a directory of on-line ASL interpreted meetings.

Another source for on-line AA meetings with ASL interpretation is OIAA.  You can access their directory (which is international also) at aa-intergroup.org

Please advise the Accessibility Committee at accessability@aa-dc.org of any changes in this information. Thank you.

Wednesday 9:30PM. 5th Dimension Young People’s Group/aka 5D

The online resource for Alcoholics Anonymous in the nation's capital.