Self-reliance seems more of a recipe for isolation and alienation than for increasing the presence of disability in academia
ByAna CaicedoMay 1, 2024Chances are that someone in your department has hearing loss, whether they’ve disclosed this or not, and will benefit from your efforts to...
ByThe Mind HearsJanuary 3, 2024— Michele “On your faculty job application, don’t say that you have hearing loss ‘cause, you know… you function just fine.” Enmeshed within...
ByMichele CookeOctober 12, 2023Although the employee must be able to request appropriate accommodations needed to perform well on the job, the success of disabled employees also...
ByThe Mind HearsMarch 6, 2023Translated by ~Jenny Kung, Heather Fair, and Minru Li With help from Xiang Li, Anran Cheng, and Xiaoxu Ma The goal for The Mind...
ByThe Mind HearsSeptember 22, 2022— Megan Majocha Deaf and hard of hearing scientists often face a lack of communication access, which is troubling because they have made...
ByMegan MajochaJuly 14, 2022When explaining why you want to mention their disability in your letter, share with your mentee specific character traits that you notice them...
ByMichele CookeMay 19, 2022-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)...
ByAna CaicedoApril 21, 2022Location: UCL, London UK Field of expertise: Quantum Physics@victorianphysic photo credit: Hannah Coleman Tell us about your background I have had hearing loss since I was 14...
ByAcademics' ProfilesFebruary 14, 2022The last year required a myriad of adjustments in our professional lives. For those of us in academia, much of it entailed moving...
ByThe Mind HearsDecember 2, 2021