Tips for Deaf Students: Dealing with Discrimination
Sometimes as deaf people we experience discrimination. This can really impact us especially in college environments. Discrimination doesn’t always look the same, and it can happen in different ways. Here are some examples of discrimination:
Tips for Deaf Students: Caring for Your Mental Health
I’m a Deaf college student. That means taking care of my mental health is really important. Discrimination, access issues, and school work all impacted my mental health. I want to show you five self-care methods that I like.
Self-Advocacy: AAPI Heritage Month
How important is it for me and young deaf people to find role models and mentors? It is very important.
The More You Know: Representation in Interpreting
I recently attended a workshop where an interpreter mentioned three types of people in our profession. I don’t recall the other two, but queer was one of them. And it’s true, of course, depending on the city you’re in, there are quite a number of queer people in the interpreting field.
The More You Know
I accepted an internship in Washington, DC, with Senator Tom Harkin. It was while they were writing the ADA, so it was a very exciting time.
Deaf Studies Today! Keynote: The Potential of Deaf Children
High school is a time where deaf people, deaf young people specifically start building their hopes and dreams for their future. It’s where they identify their goals and work towards what they want to become.
Self-Advocacy: It’s OK to File a Complaint
I had told DSS, the DSS office ahead of time to prepare Zoom for Deaf people. And in the future when we return to physical classes, I always want to mention that you’ve got to caution your Deaf professors and the DSS offices ahead of time and to add that interpreters aren’t there to cheat for the Deaf student and as Deaf students, we also have a chance to make a complaint or a grievance where they could add or change policies.
Self-Advocacy: Access is Your Right
When I come up against lack of access, such as no closed captions, I say something. Before, I was shy. I wouldn’t say anything because I didn’t want to bother anyone. But I was missing out on what was happening.
Self-Advocacy: Deaf History Month
There have been deaf community activist, movements and protests, all over the country, encouraging deaf people of all identities to work together, collaborating for systemic change, pressing those in power to pay attention to us.
The More You Know: Stories from Deaf Students
Right before the pandemic for my first degree, graphic design, I was attending classes and I was the only Deaf person in a sea of hearing people with an interpreter, of course.
The More You Know: #AutismAcceptanceMonth, signbite #2
I personally am overwhelmed by sounds. Some deaf people feel like hearing aids are simply uncomfortable, but for me, wearing hearing aids… gives me anxiety, stress, and sometimes physical pain in my ears.
The More You Know: #AutismAcceptanceMonth, signbite #1
When I was growing up, people would always tell me “Isabella, quiet your hands; you need to keep your hands quiet.”
