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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...
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...
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...
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,...
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
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...
