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As we develop blog material we will add resources for deaf/HoH academics to this page
Documents developed by The Mind Hears community
Professional organizations that promote access and inclusivity in academia
- IAGD: International Association for Geoscience Diversity
- IOPD: Institute of Physics: Diversity Programme
- American Chemical Society: Chemists with disabilities committee
- Network of deaf/HoH academics in Association for Research in Otolaryngology. You can read the Science article about the network at this link.
- Google docs list of deaf professors around the world
Articles and resources about deaf/HoH in academia
- Chua, M., De Meulder, M., Geer, L., Henner, J., Hou, L., Kubus, O., O’Brien, D. and Robinson, O., 2022. 1001 Small Victories: Deaf Academics and Imposter Syndrome. In The Palgrave handbook of imposter syndrome in higher education (pp. 481-496). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
- Campbell, Linda, Meg J. Rohan, and Kathryn Woodcock. “Academic and educational interpreting from the other side of the classroom: Working with Deaf academics.” Deaf professionals and designated interpreters: A new paradigm (2008): 81-105.
- Dolmage, Jay and Kerschbaum, Stephanie “Wanted: Disabled Faculty Members“, Inside Higher Education (2016).
- Mangan, J., 2024. Deafness in academia and the geosciences: challenges and solutions. Journal of Geoscience Education, 72(3), pp.201-208.
- Smith, David Harry, and Jean F. Andrews. “Deaf and hard of hearing faculty in higher education: Enhancing access, equity, policy, and practice.” Disability & Society 30.10 (2015): 1521-1536.
- NSF white paper on Deaf and hard of hearing in STEM that resulted from a workshop at Gallaudet in 2012.
- Tidwell, Romeria. “The “Invisible” Faculty Member: The University Professor with a Hearing Disability.” Higher Education 47, no. 2 (2004): 197-210. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4151539.
- Woodcock, Kathryn, Meg J. Rohan, and Linda Campbell. “Equitable representation of deaf people in mainstream academia: Why not?.” Higher Education 53.3 (2007): 359-379.
- Linda Campbell and the Saint Mary’s University staff interpreter have assembled a wonderful collection of short guides for how to work with a staff interpreter in various academic settings.
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Useful resources and groups
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