The Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf consists of letters, articles, financial statements, photographs, invoices, constitution and by-laws, program books, minutes, certificates, and newsletters. The collection, which consists of approximately 6,800 pages, dates from 1947 to 1989. The bulk of the collection consists of letters related to the conference that were planned for every two years between 1967 and 1986. Included in the collection, there are conference program books from 1947 to 1973. Also included in the collection are meeting minutes of the Executive Committee between 1977 and 1984. The largest subject in the collection is focused on the education of the deaf. The most interesting subject is about correspondence between the Western Electric Company and the CAID related to oralism and the Alexander Graham Bell Association.