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New Year’s Resolution 2026: 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...
The place I rest
Field work is my place in the world where I can rest; I'm allowed by the people around me to be both a...
Making lemonade with hearing loss
I would like to talk about treating the hearing loss disability as an opportunity. As the expression goes, “when life gives you lemons,...
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...
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,...
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...
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
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...
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 within...
Art of Accommodations in the Workplace for Hard-of-Hearing Employees
Although the employee must be able to request appropriate accommodations needed to perform well on the job, the success of disabled employees also...
