Established in 1955, The Singapore Association for the Deaf (SADeaf) is a social service organisation that has serves over 6,000 Deaf and Hard-of-hearing beneficiaries in the Singapore community for the past six decades.

SADeaf mission is to assist the Deaf and hard-of-hearing persons to achieve a better quality of life and to enable them to integrate and contribute to society.

SADeaf provides a wide range of community integration support services including:

- Counselling and Financial Assistance
- Employment Support
- Hearing Care Service
- Sign Language Courses
- Sign Language Interpretation
- Notetaking Service
- Deaf Awareness Programme
- Community Support Programme
- Little Hands Bilingual Bicultural Programme*


In addition,

SADeaf offers Itinerant Support Service (ISS) serves students with hearing loss (who are Singaporean citizens or Permanent Residents) in mainstream schools. To achieve better integration of students with hearing loss into schools and the community, we work with their families, schools and the community. These comes in the form of social work, learning support and speech therapy among others.

We also provide Deaf Education support and training from primary to vocational level. SADeaf also operates the Mountbatten Vocational School (ITE Approved Training Center) catering to students with various disabilities such as hearing loss, intellectual disability, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Down syndrome. Currently, MVS offers the ITE Certificates in Food Preparation, Food and Beverage Service, and Housekeeping Operations.

The Little Hands Bilingual Bicultural Programme is the only programme in Singapore to teach both the Singapore Sign Language (SgSL) and speech, for children with hearing loss below 7 years old.