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Focus on essential job functions and avoid unnecessary communication requirements such as “Must have excellent verbal communication skills.” Instead, use language such as “Must effectively communicate with colleagues, clients, and stakeholders.” This allows applicants to demonstrate communication ability through multiple methods. Post opportunities through Handshake...

Most workplace accommodations are low-cost, easy to implement, and supported by existing technology. Common accommodations include: ASL interpreters CART services (Communication Access Realtime Translation or real-time captioning) Captioning Video Relay Services (VRS) Visual alert and notification systems Accessible meeting platforms Meeting transcripts and written follow-up...

No two Deaf individuals are exactly alike. Some individuals identify culturally as Deaf (capital D), reflecting membership in the Deaf community and use of American Sign Language (ASL). Others may identify as deaf, hard of hearing, late-deafened, or DeafBlind. Individual communication and identity preferences vary....

Deaf Studies Associate Professor Tawny Holmes Hlibok, ’05 & G-’10, is about to head off for a very cool experience. It will also be very cold, because the Polar STEAM Fellowship is taking her to Utqiagvik, Alaska, one of the northernmost towns in the world....

Raphael Domingo, PhD ’22 is accustomed to being a leader as a co-founder of the Philippine Federation of the Deaf and its youngest president at just 21 years old.  Known as Dx. Rafa, they use gender-neutral professional titles (Dx.) and pronouns in Filipino (siya) and...

A team of faculty and PhD students from Gallaudet University traveled to Barcelona, Spain, this April to participate in the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026), the world's premier international gathering for human-computer interaction research. Held April 13-17 at the...

WASHINGTON - The Gallaudet University men's and women's outdoor track and field teams are set to make their 2026 home debut at the Thomas O. Berg Track this Saturday, April 11, when GU and Howard University host the Bison Classic. The first events begin at...