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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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
