The Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf (CAID) is an "organization for all teachers, administrators, educational interpreters, residential personnel, and other concerned professionals involved in education of the deaf".^[1] The CAID held its first convention on August 28, 1850, in New York City, New York, at Washington Heights.^[2] The second Convention was held the next year, in 1851, in Hartford, Connecticut, and the third Convention was held two years after that, in 1853, in Columbus, Ohio. The fourth Convention met in 1856 in Staunton, Virginia.^[3] The Convention continued to meet every couple of years, then became formally incorporated during its Fourteenth meeting, in 1895, in Flint, Michigan.

Annual conventions

• First Convention, New York, August 28–30, 1850.
• Second Convention, Hartford, Connecticut, August 10–12, 1851.
• Third Convention, Columbus, Ohio, August 10–12, 1853.
• Fourth Convention, Staunton, Virginia, August 13–15, 1856.
• Fifth Convention, Jacksonville, Illinois, August 10–12, 1858.
• Sixth Convention (was not held, due to the Civil War, however the First Conference of American Principals and Superintendents, which was held in Washington, D.C. in 1868 was later designated as being the "Sixth Convention").^[4]
• Seventh Convention, Indianapolis, Indiana, August 24–26, 1870.
• Eighth Convention, Belleville, Ontario, July 15–20, 1874.
• Ninth Convention, Columbus, Ohio, August 17–22, 1878.
• Tenth Convention, Jacksonville, Illinois, August 26–30, 1882.
• Eleventh Convention, Berkeley, California, July 15–22, 1886.
• Twelfth Convention, New York, August 23–27, 1890.
• Proceedings of the Thirteenth Convention of the American Instructors of the Deaf, held at Chicago, Illinois, July 17, 19, 21, and 24, 1893. (Gallaudet library has a copy, accession no. 26750.)
• Sixteenth Convention, Buffalo, New York, July 2–8, 1901.
• Eighteenth Convention, Ogden, Utah, July 4–10, 1908.
• Twentieth Convention, Staunton, Virginia, June 25–July 1, 1914.
• Twenty-First Convention, Hartford, Connecticut, June 29-July 4, 1917. (Contains notable speech by philosopher John Dewey on pp. 49–53 = PDF pp. 56–60)
• Twenty-Second Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 28-July 3, 1920.
• Twenty-Fifth Meeting of the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf, Columbus, Ohio, July 1, 1927. Percival Hall paper, "A Greater Gallaudet".
• 1939 CAID
• Twenty-Seventh Meeting of the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, June 22 to 26, 1931
• Forty-first, Washington DC, 1963 convention
• CAID proceedings (Hartford, CT, 1967)
• Forty-fourth, Berkeley 1969 CAID convention
• Forty-sixth, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1973 convention
• First — New York, N.Y., August 28–30, 1850.
• Second — Hartford, Conn., August 27–29, 1851.
• Third — Columbus, Ohio, August 10–12, 1853.
• Fourth — Staunton, Va., August 13–15, 1856.
• Fifth — Jacksonville, Ill., August 10–12, 1858.
• Sixth — Washington, D.C., May 12–16, 1868. (Also called the First Conference of Superintendents and Principals of American Schools for the Deaf.)
• Seventh — Indianapolis, Ind., August 24–26, 1870.
• Eighth — Belleville, Ontario, July 15–20, 1874
• Ninth — Columbus, Ohio, August 17–22, 1878.
• Tenth — Jacksonville, Ill., August 26–30, 1882.
• Eleventh — Berkeley, Calif., July 15–23, 1886.
• Twelfth — New York, N.Y., August 23–27, 1890.
• Thirteenth — Chicago, Ill., July 17, 19, 21, 24, 1893.
• Fourteenth — Flint, Mich., July 2–8, 1895.
• Fifteenth — Columbus, Ohio, July 28–August 2, 1898.
• Sixteenth — Buffalo, N.Y., July 2–8, 1901.
• Seventeenth — Morganton, N.C., July 8–13, 1905.
• Eighteenth — Ogden, Utah, July 4–10, 1908.
• Nineteenth — Delavan Wis., July 6–13, 1911.
• Twentieth — Staunton, Va., June 25–July 1, 1914.
• Twenty-first — Hartford, Conn., June 29 — July 3, 1917.
• Twenty-second — Mount Airy, Pa., June 28–July 3, 1920.
• Twenty-third — Belleville, Ontario, June 25–30, 1923.
• Twenty-fourth — Council Bluffs, Iowa, June 29-July 4, 1925.
• Twenty-fifth — Columbus, Ohio, June 27–July 1, 1927.
• Twenty-sixth — Faribault, Minn., June 17–21, 1929.
• Twenty-seventh — Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 22–26, 1931.
• Thirty-fourth — Jacksonville, Illinois, June 19-24, 1949
• Thirty-seventh — West Hartford, Connecticut, June 26-July 01, 1955
• Forty-fourth — Berkeley, California, June 20-27, 1969
• Forty-Fifth — Little Rock, Ark., June 25-July 2, 1971
• Forty-Sixth — Indianapolis, Indiana, June 24-29, 1973