The United States is a fairly large country, and has developed strong deaf communities in many cities and metropolitan areas. Here are some of them.
Los Angeles, California
There is more to Los Angeles than the Greater Los Angeles Association of the Deaf (GLAD). The L.A. area also has homegrown deaf theater and deaf churches. There are also a handful of deaf organizations.
Nashville, Tennessee
Most of the deaf communities written about on About.com have been well-known metropolitan areas, but Nashville was selected for its affordability as a place to live. The area has deaf organizations for every subset of the deaf community, including the deaf-blind.
New York City, New York
New York City is home to a bustling deaf community. Deaf Professional Happy hours are successful there. There is a range of educational options for deaf children. Broadway theater plays are interpreted. That's just the beginning of deaf life in New York.
Rochester, New York
There has been some disagreement about the size of the deaf community in Rochester, New York but there is no doubt it is substantial. The presence of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology guarantees a flow of new deaf residents for Rochester. Usually a certain percentage of a college's graduates will settle in the area the college is in, and NTID is no exception.
Washington, DC
The Metropolitan Washington, DC area is said to consist of the District of Columbia, practically the whole state of Maryland, and Northern Virginia but it keeps expanding as people move farther out in search of affordable housing and new deaf organizations and services form. It is hard to know where the metro DC area begins and ends nowadays.
Wyoming
Wyoming is a sparsely populated state,yet it still has a few things to offer people who are involved with deafness or sign language.
