Accommodating a Pandemic
Can we apply innovations in accommodating this pandemic to help us build a more inclusive long-term post pandemic academic workplace? I hope so.
To Hear, or Not to Hear? The Mental Gymnastics of Hearing Device Use
-Sarah Sparks I had planned to write this post about listening fatigue, but as I began writing I realized that a related yet...
“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...
The Mind Hears affirms that Black Lives Matter
-Michele Cooke and Ana Caicedo The murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and too many others stem from historic and continued...
The Best Laid Plans: A remote teaching journey
This is a repost of The best laid plans from Dr. Rachel Obbard’s blog Pandemic Pedagogy. The post is the first in a series that chronicle...
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...
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...
Who am I at a Research Conference: the Deaf Person or the Scientist?
At academic conferences, I am a scientist first, and deaf person second.
How to work with ASL-English interpreters and Deaf academics in academic settings
Just like their non-Deaf colleagues, Deaf academics teach students, discuss and present their research, attend various professional meetings, and give media interviews. Communicating...
New Year’s Resolution: Make Your Workplace Accessible
Reaching the goal of achieving an academic workplace accessible to deaf/HoH academics is a journey; we’ve assembled this list to capture just a...
