for hearing allies
The accommodations process is disabling
The current accommodations process stifles both disabled people’s creative problem-solving and our voice in shaping our workplace. Disabled employees should be leading the...
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 Disability Tax: How Disabled Professional are Quietly Holding Companies Together
Often, it’s said that professionals with disabilities have two jobs: the one we’re paid to do, and the unpaid one of educating others....
Hearing and Sense of Self
It was a turning point because once I had disclosed at work, to my students, and to the office of civil rights compliance...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Dear Students: Listen Up. Like, for Real.
Is there anything as vulnerable as a deaf person standing in front of an expectant audience?
Hearing and understanding are not the same
Hearing that sound is happening is not the same as processing sound.
