Being a part of the #SigningEcosystem means we support deaf-owned businesses in every way we can. In the southern California area, show your support for these local deaf and hard of hearing entrepreneurs running brick-and-mortar businesses!
LessCODIE is a coordinating agency that addresses the social service needs of Deaf and Hard of Hearing people through direct service provision, advocacy, research and dissemination of information regarding deafness to parents, professionals and consumers.
DawnSignPress creates, develops, and publishes quality American Sign Language (ASL) and Deaf culture-related videos and books. DawnSignPress is dedicated to supporting the efforts of Deaf people to document ASL, Deaf culture, history, heritage, and literature.
DCS focuses on the social, economic, educational, and behavioral health needs of the deaf and hard of hearing, deaf-blind, and late deafened community. DCS has over 40 years’ experience in providing culturally and linguistically specific social and interpreting services.
In operation since 2000, deaf-owned catering company Feast on This has been applauded as a top full-service culinary and events company in Southern California.
The mission of the Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness, Inc. (GLAD) is to ensure equal access of the deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, and deaf disabled community to the same opportunities afforded their hearing counterparts. Their organization works towards the promotion of the social, recreational, cultural, educational, and vocational well-being of their constituents.
The innovative, comfortable, effective, and intuitive menstrual cup! Kind Cup's patent-pending ergonomic design provides lasting, effective comfort, and their customers are loving this new period product option!
The Orange County Deaf Equal Access Foundation, better known as OC-DEAF, was established in 1979 as an outreach office of the Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness, Inc. (GLAD). Over the years, OC-DEAF, through its individual consumer service provision to more than ten thousand individuals annually, has dramatically improved the quality of life of deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind and deaf disabled persons and their families.
This deaf-friendly business provides a creative space for decorating cakes, cupcakes & cookies. They offer parties, fundraisers, and classes in American Sign Language.
Tri-County GLAD, a subsidiary of the Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness, Inc., is an agency that addresses the broad social service needs of deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, and deaf disabled individuals, providing advocacy, communication access, peer counseling, employment development, information and referrals, independent living skills, and community education services for their constituents in three counties: Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo.