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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...

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Writing reference letters for disabled mentees

When explaining why you want to mention their disability in your letter, share with your mentee specific character traits that you notice them...

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“Moving Together”: Or Researching Health Care Access as a Disabled Academic

If my credibility as a researcher is in question, I’d rather people not focus on my social status, because the “ideal” academic researcher...

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Deaf Gain -> diverse and stronger research

my deafness shapes my approach to science in ways that benefit my research

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New Year’s Resolution 2024: Improve accessibility of your workplace for your deaf/HoH colleagues

Chances are that someone in your department has hearing loss, whether they’ve disclosed this or not, and will benefit from your efforts to...

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Hearing and understanding are not the same

Hearing that sound is happening is not the same as processing sound. 

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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: Amelia Dall

Perseverance is key for Archeologist, Amelia Dall. All the cool projects that she has been involved with demonstrates Amelia's advice to connect with...

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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...

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New Year’s resolution 2020: Make Your Workplace Accessible

our hearing colleagues can help us tremendously by sharing the work and not expecting us to bear all of the burden of creating...