deaf academics
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...
Profile: Dr. Caroline M. Solomon
I tell my students that learning isn’t a one-size-fits-all experience. I would tell younger Carrie to try new things and find new ways...
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...
The place I rest
Field work is my place in the world where I can rest; I'm allowed by the people around me to be both a...
Making lemonade with hearing loss
I would like to talk about treating the hearing loss disability as an opportunity. As the expression goes, “when life gives you lemons,...
The Disability Tax: How Disabled Professional are Quietly Holding Companies Together
Often, it’s said that professionals with disabilities have two jobs: the one we’re paid to do, and the unpaid one of educating others....
Hearing and Sense of Self
It was a turning point because once I had disclosed at work, to my students, and to the office of civil rights compliance...
Profile: Dr. Tim Anderson
My first phone call . . . was clearly a prank. It sounded like someone was using a bad 1970s era robotic voice...
Hearing while deaf
Had I been left out in such settings because of wheelchair inaccessibility, people would be aghast, and would engineer a remedy. Hearing loss,...
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...
