About CLP

As Codas, this is our legacy. The Coda Legacy Project approaches Coda lives from a strengths-based, culturally and linguistically responsive perspective. Deafness, Deaf parents, ASL, Deaf culture, and growing up in a Deaf family are not presumed to be deficits, adverse childhood experiences, or causes of pathology. We seek to understand the full Coda experience—language, culture, family, Deaf community, joy, belonging, responsibility, discrimination, access, agency, identity, skills, resilience, history, and intergenerational legacy. We do not presume an experience was traumatic, burdensome, beneficial, or harmful. We invite people to tell us what happened and what it meant to them.