The Canadian Association of the Deaf (CAD; French: Association des sourds du Canada, ASC) is a Canadian non-governmental organization that works to promote the interests and well-being of the Deaf community in Canada.

[1] It was founded in 1940 through a joint effort by the Western Canada, the Ontario, and the Eastern Canada associations of the Deaf, with the support of the Montreal Association of the Deaf.

[2][3] The Canadian Association of the Deaf was founded in 1940 in order to create and administer a fund that could provide scholarships to Deaf persons in Canada who did not live in regions that currently provided them.

[3] In 1970, the CAD successfully won funding from the Canadian Department of Communications to begin a Captioned Films and Telecommunications Program for Canada.

A partnership with the Department of Communications and the National Film Board in 1981 led to the creation of The Canadian Captioning Development Agency (CCDA), which for a time was the only such agency in Canada.