The AOSF is a non-profit organization that promotes the consolidation of Franco-Ontarian people with hearing loss to meet their needs and aspirations. Its mandate is to enable the deaf community to flourish and grow to their full potential.
The Association aims:
- At that laws and administrative practice in Ontario meets the legal right of French-speaking Deaf Ontario to have services in their language including among others the use of American Sign Language (ASL);
- Ensuring the protection, preservation and promotion of Quebec Sign Language (LSQ);
- Play a role of active participation within the deaf community and with Franco-Ontarian decision-making bodies affecting the social, educational, political and economic community of the Franco-Ontarian deaf;
- Forge close links with other organizations that share the interests and goals of the AOSF.
