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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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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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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

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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...

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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 within...

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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...

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The Mind Hears Mission Statement – Welcoming Chinese speakers

Translated by ~Jenny Kung, Heather Fair, and Minru Li With help from Xiang Li, Anran Cheng, and Xiaoxu Ma The goal for The Mind...

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Science in ASL is a whole different language: Interpreters in STEM

— Megan Majocha Deaf and hard of hearing scientists often face a lack of communication access, which is troubling because they have made...

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Writing reference letters for disabled mentees

When explaining why you want to mention their disability in your letter, share with your mentee specific character traits that you notice them...

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Presentando The Mind Hears [La Mente Oye] a académicos de habla hispana

-translated by Ana Our goal for The Mind Hears is to have it serve as a global resource for deaf and HoH (hard of hearing)...