deaf/HoH experiences
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 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,...
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...
Hearing while deaf
Had I been left out in such settings because of wheelchair inaccessibility, people would be aghast, and would engineer a remedy. Hearing loss,...
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...
Can you please repeat that? Hearing Loss in the Academy
Reprinted from Disabled Faculty and Staff: Intersecting Identities Volume 2 (2023) with permission from the Association on Higher Education And Disability, AHEAD, Huntersville, NC, USA. www.ahead.org At...
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,...
