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...
Invitation to our 2nd The Mind Hears online community meet-up
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...
My academic path from self-reliance to self-advocacy to peer-support
Self-reliance seems more of a recipe for isolation and alienation than for increasing the presence of disability in academia
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...
Profile: Dr. Stephanie W. Cawthon
Where did you go to school? After early childhood in a segregated setting for students with disabilities in Canada, I was in mainstream...
The Sounds of Silence
Stephen Klusza takes us on an enchanting multimedia journey leading up to his decision to get an cochlear implant in grad school.
Profile: Dr. Maartje De Meulder
Background? I was born in Flanders, Belgium to hearing (non-signing) parents. I am the oldest of four. I grew up hard-of-hearing and became...
What’s In a Name?
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare’s...
The sound we can see: working with hearing loss in the field
When I was 19 I went for a checkup with an audiologist and found out that I was hearing only 90% of what...
What is the impact of mutual mentoring networks such as The Mind Hears?
Decreasing representation of disabled academics through the academic ranks correlates with decreasing levels of support for accommodations.
Why the world needs another blog
By sharing various ways that we approach different challenges, we hope to build a community toolbox of solutions.
