a blog for and by deaf and hard of hearing academics a blog for and by deaf and hard of hearing academics
a blog for and by deaf and hard of hearing academics a blog for and by deaf and hard of hearing academics

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I owe my career to the invention of email

Academics even a few years my senior had to rely on telephones for networking.

ByDecember 5, 2019

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