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1 out of 4 people on a hiring committee think I can’t do my job

— Michele “On your faculty job application, don’t say that you have hearing loss ‘cause, you know… you function just fine.”  Enmeshed...

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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...

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Can you please repeat that? Hearing Loss in the Academy

Reprinted from Disabled Faculty and Staff: Intersecting Identities Volume 2 (2023) with permission from the Association on Higher Education And Disability, AHEAD, Huntersville, NC, USA. www.ahead.org At...

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Profile: Eric Heinze

I realized that there was a “deaf tax” in going to a predominantly hearing institution, and, as the only deaf person on campus,...

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The “Deaf Tax” and Speaking for Others

Today, in spite of the presence and efforts of deaf academics and deaf advocacy organizations, hearing sign language linguists are most readily heeded,...

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Are you deaf/hard of hearing and want to become a U.S. Federal Employee? The Persons with Disability Hiring Path

"I am proud and honored to serve my nation as a civil servant and I am equally proud that our government strives to...

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Can everybody hear me? Experiences as an hearing impaired faculty member

"People do not recognize the struggles involved on a daily basis for those of us with hearing loss, and the extent to which...