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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...
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: When communication all changed
As a virologist, I had some idea about what was to come; as a deaf individual, I did not fully comprehend what this...
Bridging communication between the hearing and deaf worlds: a conversation with the founders of Ava
Our mission is to make Deaf and hard-of-hearing peoples’ lives easier and happier in any situation, including academia—that’s why Ava was created.
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...
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)...
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...
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.
Conquering faculty meetings (or not…) when deaf/hard of hearing
-Ana Making it as a deaf/hard of hearing (HoH) academic can often feel like a game of whack-a-mole. Between research activities, teaching duties,...
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.
