deaf faculty
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 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,...
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...
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,...
