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deaf academics
Lessons from the pandemic: work innovations that we are keeping
The last year required a myriad of adjustments in our professional lives. For those of us in academia, much of it entailed moving...
Profile: Dr. Krista Kennedy
setting limits on how much listening I do each day, negotiating accommodations through the ADA office, and educating my colleagues about CART and...
Why mutual support matters: surviving as Deaf/HoH graduate students at a predominantly hearing institution
The Mind Hears was excited to learn that Anne and Breanne are two deaf graduate students in the same School of Integrative Plant...
And I knew the silence of the world
"I am holding on with both hands and never letting go."
Profile: Dr. John Dennehy
Background? I was born deaf. At the time, my family had recently moved to rural New Hampshire. Early on, my parents struggled because I did not hit age-appropriate...
Three reasons why I chose industry research over academia
-Alex Lu After a long five years, my stint as a PhD student was finally reaching its end – and that meant I...
Profile: Dr. Stephanie W. Cawthon
Where did you go to school? After early childhood in a segregated setting for students with disabilities in Canada, I was in mainstream...
Profile: Dr. Hilde Haualand
Background? I am a deaf multilingual in several signed and written languages (and selectively and contextually, sometimes also spoken languages), who grew up...
Eloquence is Overrated…and Exhausting
–Hi there. I’m Sara, and I’m almost deaf. As folks with hearing loss, we have been trained to speak clearly so that we...
Making your in-person and remote workplaces accessible for your deaf/HoH colleagues
The Mind Hears annual post on how to make your in-person and remote academic workplace accessible to deaf/HoH colleagues.
