Archive 4 Columns
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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...
Profile: Dr. Krista Kennedy
setting limits on how much listening I do each day, negotiating accommodations through the ADA office, and educating my colleagues about CART and...
Why the world needs another blog
By sharing various ways that we approach different challenges, we hope to build a community toolbox of solutions.
Profile: Dr. Stephanie Flude
"I think becoming more and more deaf has increased my ability to advocate for myself, mostly out of necessity. And that seems to...
New Year’s Resolution 2025: 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...
Hearing and understanding are not the same
Hearing that sound is happening is not the same as processing sound.
The best place for my hearing aids is on my desk
Instead of expecting me to strive to be a hearing professor, why not expect that each of us makes the classroom less disabling...
Under-represented: Where are all the deaf and hard-of-hearing academics?
-Michele Through working on The Mind Hears since Sept 2018, I’ve had the chance to meet some amazing deaf and hard-of-hearing scholars and researchers.Our...
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...
Mandated equal opportunity hiring may not ensure equal considerations by hiring committees: A hypothetical scenario
-Ryan Imagine that you are a deaf/hard-of-hearing (HoH) person applying for a full-time academic position in a U.S. public institution of higher learning....
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...
Why mutual support matters: surviving as Deaf/HoH graduate students at a predominantly hearing institution
The Mind Hears was excited to learn that Anne and Breanne are two deaf graduate students in the same School of Integrative Plant...
