Camp Taloali is for Deaf,HArd of Hearing,CODA's siblings and singing friends age 6 - 18. we are located in the foothills of Oregon's cascades mountains on 111 acres of level forested land of pines and fits with open fields bordering the North Santiam River.

At a family reunion in the summer of 1972,Roma Rae Cline (ROyal Teets's sister) and Mary anne koch (daughter of betty and tony koch) were talking about mary anne,s work in the area of receation.ROma are told mary anne that there was a great need to have a leadership and nature camp for hearing impaired children in the oacific northwest because at that time the only other camp for hearing impaired children was at swan lake in minnesota.Royal was brought into the cinversation and the three if them agreed that they would start meeting regularly to develop some ideas,and see if they could get the camp off the ground by using land that belonged to the koch family.mary anne did a lot ofwriting and organising on her own.

In february or march,1973,a meeting of interested people was held at the oregon school for the deaf to show some slides and drawing of the camp plans,abd to rally needed support about this time, buddy singleton began to put together the first camp  brochure for the first camp session.The camp site was named camp Taloali which means singing bird in indian language.