National Coalition for Language Access

The National Coalition for Language Access (NCFLA) is a coalition of organizations and individuals that care deeply about the rights of people who speak limited English, who are Deaf, Deafblind or hard-of-hearing to communicate clearly with professionals in healthcare, education, social service or legal settings.

We are administrators, doctors, lawyers, interpreters, advocates, and educators. We work in healthcare, in education, in courts, in refugee resettlement and in immigrant rights associations.

We are hearing and Deaf and deafblind, we are monolingual and multilingual, born in the U.S and immigrants and refugees. Some of us have started to support language access recently, while many of us have been doing this work for decades.

All of us are alarmed to see the communicative rights of people in the U.S. being eroded, making it harder for people in our multilingual country to access services in a language other than English, and making it harder for health/educational/human service professionals to do their jobs.

The coalition came together remotely through word-of-mouth on March 2, 2025, following the release of Executive Order 14224 in which President Donald Trump designated English as the national language of the United States. Our goals are to educate and advocate.

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