Postings
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...
Profile: Dr. Caroline M. Solomon
I tell my students that learning isn’t a one-size-fits-all experience. I would tell younger Carrie to try new things and find new ways...
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...
Profile: Dr. Tim Anderson
My first phone call . . . was clearly a prank. It sounded like someone was using a bad 1970s era robotic voice...
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,...
Profile: Jenny Leung
The advice I give my former self is to interact with other Deaf researchers and learn more from them, seek advice about their...
Invitation to Open House on March 31st
One of our goals with The Mind Hears blog is to build a community and reduce isolation for deaf and hard of hearing academics. To...
A framework for disclosing your hearing loss in the classroom
As an occupational therapist, I strive to help the next generation of occupational therapy practitioners to see disability as an intersectional part of...
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...
Profile: Eric Heinze
I realized that there was a “deaf tax” in going to a predominantly hearing institution, and, as the only deaf person on campus,...
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,...
Are you deaf/hard of hearing and want to become a U.S. Federal Employee? The Persons with Disability Hiring Path
"I am proud and honored to serve my nation as a civil servant and I am equally proud that our government strives to...
Can everybody hear me? Experiences as an hearing impaired faculty member
"People do not recognize the struggles involved on a daily basis for those of us with hearing loss, and the extent to which...
My academic path from self-reliance to self-advocacy to peer-support
Self-reliance seems more of a recipe for isolation and alienation than for increasing the presence of disability in academia
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...
The best place for my hearing aids is on my desk
Instead of expecting me to strive to be a hearing professor, why not expect that each of us makes the classroom less disabling...
1 out of 4 people on a hiring committee think I can’t do my job
— Michele “On your faculty job application, don’t say that you have hearing loss ‘cause, you know… you function just fine.” Enmeshed within...
Profile: Megan Majocha
Tell us about your background? I am third generation deaf, and I grew up in Pittsburgh, PA. My parents are deaf, and...
Creating community with The Mind Hears open houses
We recently hosted two on-line open house sessions to provide an opportunity for folks to meet other deaf or hard of hearing faculty...
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...
Invitation to our 2nd The Mind Hears online community meet-up
One of our goals with The Mind Hears blog is to build a community and reduce isolation for deaf and hard of hearing academics. To...
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.
Art of Accommodations in the Workplace for Hard-of-Hearing Employees
Although the employee must be able to request appropriate accommodations needed to perform well on the job, the success of disabled employees also...
Profile: Nora Duggan
Build up a network of deaf students where you can share tips, or even just rant about barriers you're facing.
New Year’s Resolution 2023: 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...
