deaf/HoH experiences
Cochlear implants are not my thing… yet
Now, only after I had kept (and still keep) hearing from my peers with hearing loss who now wear cochlear implants and are...
Making your in-person and remote workplaces accessible for your deaf/HoH colleagues
The Mind Hears annual post on how to make your in-person and remote academic workplace accessible to deaf/HoH colleagues.
What is the impact of mutual mentoring networks such as The Mind Hears?
Decreasing representation of disabled academics through the academic ranks correlates with decreasing levels of support for accommodations.
Accommodating a Pandemic
Can we apply innovations in accommodating this pandemic to help us build a more inclusive long-term post pandemic academic workplace? I hope so.
To Hear, or Not to Hear? The Mental Gymnastics of Hearing Device Use
-Sarah Sparks I had planned to write this post about listening fatigue, but as I began writing I realized that a related yet...
Navigating a masked world when you are deaf/HoH
-Ana While the pandemic rages around the world, I know I have been incredibly lucky. Like many, I have struggled to keep my...
The Mind Hears affirms that Black Lives Matter
-Michele Cooke and Ana Caicedo The murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and too many others stem from historic and continued...
How much listening is too much?
As academics, our jobs require us to listen to others all the time—in our classes, in faculty meetings, in seminars, and when meeting...
I owe my career to the invention of email
Academics even a few years my senior had to rely on telephones for networking.
The sound we can see: working with hearing loss in the field
When I was 19 I went for a checkup with an audiologist and found out that I was hearing only 90% of what...
