[1] The organisation was established in 1963 as a result of an historical New Zealand Deaf Societies Convention Conference in 1963.

After the successful 1963 Deaf Societies meeting which was held in Wellington, a national sporting body called The New Zealand Deaf Amateur Sports Association (NZDASA) was built.

In the year 2014, the organisation was renamed as Deaf Sports New Zealand.

The Federation had to confront new challenges just after its formation in 1963 especially when it found difficulties to finance the New Zealand team to participate at the 1965 Summer Deaflympics which was held in Washington, D.C. An indoor bowls tournament, festival of dancing were conducted by the Federation to raise funds along with other functions.

You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This article related to sport in New Zealand is a stub.