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Navigating a masked world when you are deaf/HoH

While the pandemic rages around the world, I know I have been incredibly lucky. Like many, I have struggled to keep my kids...

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How much listening is too much?

As academics, our jobs require us to listen to others all the time—in our classes, in faculty meetings, in seminars, and when meeting...

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Dear Students: Listen Up. Like, for Real. 

Is there anything as vulnerable as a deaf person standing in front of an expectant audience?

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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...

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Profile: Dr. Paige Glotzer

I finally realized: if I wanted to be a historian, I was going to have to do not just the work my peers...

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Presentando The Mind Hears [La Mente Oye] a académicos de habla hispana

-translated by Ana Our goal for The Mind Hears is to have it serve as a global resource for deaf and HoH (hard of hearing)...

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Harnessing social media to advocate for accommodations

While just the mention of ‘social media’ can elicit eye rolls from our senior colleagues, many of us deaf and hard of hearing...

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Profile: Nora Duggan

Build up a network of deaf students where you can share tips, or even just rant about barriers you're facing. 

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Profile: Alex Lu

PhD Student, University of Toronto, Canada Field of expertise: Computational Biology Years of experience (since start of PhD): 5 years  Describe your hearing: Profoundly deaf; I’m...

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I owe my career to the invention of email

Academics even a few years my senior had to rely on telephones for networking.