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The Mind Hears Mission Statement – Welcoming Chinese speakers
Translated by ~Jenny Kung, Heather Fair, and Minru Li With help from Xiang Li, Anran Cheng, and Xiaoxu Ma The goal for The Mind...
Passing the rattlesnake test
The combination of my slight deaf accent, excellent bluffing skills, and the privilege of being able to follow well-lit conversations with low background...
Using FM Systems at Conferences
-Michele You’re wearing your hearing aids, sitting at a conference presentation, feeling confident that you’re understanding what’s going on, when it happens. The...
Profile: Megan Majocha
Tell us about your background? I am third generation deaf, and I grew up in Pittsburgh, PA. My parents are deaf, and...
Profile: Dr. Heather Fair
Without hearing diversity, we are missing the tremendous collective power of different human experiences, ideas, and creative thought which is shaped by information...
Lessons from the pandemic: work innovations that we are keeping
The last year required a myriad of adjustments in our professional lives. For those of us in academia, much of it entailed moving...
The Eight Faces – a deaf artist’s perspective on masks
At this moment, after 2 years of pandemic living, many COVID restrictions are being rolled back in the communities where we – Michele...
When to tell? Applying for jobs when you are deaf or hard of hearing
-Ana Going on the job market was a fraught decision for me. As a postdoc considering tenure-track faculty positions, I relied on hearing...
Invitation to an online meet-up with The Mind Hears community
One of our goals with The Mind Hears blog is to build a community and reduce isolation for deaf and hard of hearing academics. To...
Profile: Dr. Khadijat Rashid
. Background? I’m deaf, as in profoundly, deeply deaf. I can’t even use hearing aids because they are worthless for me, though I...
