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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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....

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deaf/HoH experiencesfor hearing allies

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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Can everybody hear me? Experiences as an hearing impaired faculty member

"People do not recognize the struggles involved on a daily basis for those of us with hearing loss, and the extent to which...

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