I realized that there was a “deaf tax” in going to a predominantly hearing institution, and, as the only deaf person on campus,...
ByAcademics' ProfilesAugust 28, 2024"People do not recognize the struggles involved on a daily basis for those of us with hearing loss, and the extent to which...
ByDiane HoffmanMay 21, 2024Self-reliance seems more of a recipe for isolation and alienation than for increasing the presence of disability in academia
ByAna CaicedoMay 1, 2024Chances are that someone in your department has hearing loss, whether they’ve disclosed this or not, and will benefit from your efforts to...
ByThe Mind HearsJanuary 4, 2023"I think becoming more and more deaf has increased my ability to advocate for myself, mostly out of necessity. And that seems to...
ByAcademics' ProfilesDecember 7, 2022One of our goals with The Mind Hears blog is to build a community and reduce isolation for deaf and hard of hearing academics. To...
ByThe Mind HearsOctober 5, 2022Translated by ~Jenny Kung, Heather Fair, and Minru Li With help from Xiang Li, Anran Cheng, and Xiaoxu Ma The goal for The Mind...
ByThe Mind HearsSeptember 22, 2022While just the mention of ‘social media’ can elicit eye rolls from our senior colleagues, many of us deaf and hard of hearing...
ByPaige Glotzer, Michele CookeSeptember 7, 2022Without hearing diversity, we are missing the tremendous collective power of different human experiences, ideas, and creative thought which is shaped by information...
ByAcademics' ProfilesAugust 12, 2022-translated by Ana Our goal for The Mind Hears is to have it serve as a global resource for deaf and HoH (hard of hearing)...
ByAna CaicedoApril 21, 2022