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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...
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...
Profile: Dr. Stephanie Flude
"I think becoming more and more deaf has increased my ability to advocate for myself, mostly out of necessity. And that seems to...
Profile: Amelia Dall
Perseverance is key for Archeologist, Amelia Dall. All the cool projects that she has been involved with demonstrates Amelia's advice to connect with...
Invitation to an online meet-up with The Mind Hears community
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...
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...
Profile: Dr. Heather Fair
Without hearing diversity, we are missing the tremendous collective power of different human experiences, ideas, and creative thought which is shaped by information...
Science in ASL is a whole different language: Interpreters in STEM
— Megan Majocha Deaf and hard of hearing scientists often face a lack of communication access, which is troubling because they have made...
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)...
Profile: Dr. Anna Danielsson
The more I’ve risen through the academic ranks, the easier I’ve found it to get accommodations for my hearing. Part of this is...
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...
Profile: Elli Harpum
Location: UCL, London UK Field of expertise: Quantum Physics@victorianphysic photo credit: Hannah Coleman Tell us about your background I have had hearing loss since I was 14...
Dear Students: Listen Up. Like, for Real.
Is there anything as vulnerable as a deaf person standing in front of an expectant audience?
New Year’s Resolution 2022: Making your in-person and remote workplaces accessible for your deaf/HoH colleagues
The new year brings a fresh start to our lives; it’s a natural time to reflect on the year past and make plans...
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...
Profile: Dr. Krista Kennedy
setting limits on how much listening I do each day, negotiating accommodations through the ADA office, and educating my colleagues about CART and...
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."
