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deaf/HoH experiences
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...
Harnessing social media to advocate for accommodations
While just the mention of ‘social media’ can elicit eye rolls from our senior colleagues, many of us deaf and hard of hearing...
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...
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)...
The Eight Faces – a deaf artist’s perspective on masks
At this moment, after 2 years of pandemic living, many COVID restrictions are being rolled back in the communities where we – Michele...
Dear Students: Listen Up. Like, for Real.
Is there anything as vulnerable as a deaf person standing in front of an expectant audience?
Lessons from the pandemic: work innovations that we are keeping
The last year required a myriad of adjustments in our professional lives. For those of us in academia, much of it entailed moving...
Passing the rattlesnake test
The combination of my slight deaf accent, excellent bluffing skills, and the privilege of being able to follow well-lit conversations with low background...
Why mutual support matters: surviving as Deaf/HoH graduate students at a predominantly hearing institution
The Mind Hears was excited to learn that Anne and Breanne are two deaf graduate students in the same School of Integrative Plant...
And I knew the silence of the world
"I am holding on with both hands and never letting go."
