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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...
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...
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...
Writing reference letters for disabled mentees
When explaining why you want to mention their disability in your letter, share with your mentee specific character traits that you notice them...
Hearing and understanding are not the same
Hearing that sound is happening is not the same as processing sound.
What is the impact of mutual mentoring networks such as The Mind Hears?
Decreasing representation of disabled academics through the academic ranks correlates with decreasing levels of support for accommodations.
Profile: Dr. Jaipreet Virdi
I try to hold my own work at the accessibility standards I want to see for everyone.
