12:04:53 From Ally Jevens To Everyone:
	Welcome! Please note there are closed captions available at the bottom of your screen.
12:05:20 From Ally Jevens To Everyone:
	Should you have any questions for our speakers, please feel free to type them in the chat or unmute and ask!
12:06:13 From Tilak Ratnanather To Everyone:
	Cued speech is COOL!
12:06:40 From Ally Jevens To Everyone:
	First question asked: Can you tell us about yourself and what motivated you to serve on the Accommodations committee?
12:11:39 From Ally Jevens To Everyone:
	Q: What is the difference between accommodation and accessibility?
12:11:51 From Radha Kalluri To Everyone:
	What is the difference between Accomodations and Accessibility?
12:14:04 From Ally Jevens To Radha Kalluri(Privately):
	I am happy to do the questions so you may enjoy the session
12:14:18 From Radha Kalluri To Ally Jevens(Privately):
	Ok...thank you!
12:15:16 From Ally Jevens To Everyone:
	Q: Can you tell us a little bit about accessibility issues that we should consider related to disabilities other than hearing impairment?
12:17:18 From Ally Jevens To Everyone:
	Q: What are certain challenges that are faced by members of the ARO community when requesting a specific accommodation or change in practice that would increase accessibility?
12:22:37 From Lina Reiss To Everyone:
	The question was if there are no captioners available such as in a lab discussion, what are the options?
12:23:43 From Michelle Molis To Everyone:
	Is enough money being budgeted up front to address accommodations, or are they often an afterthought or a make-do solution? How much of the burden is put on the scientist to provide their own solutions?
12:25:39 From Monita Chatterjee To Everyone:
	Great point Ray! -- And asking/checking to make sure you were understood
12:28:51 From Ally Jevens To Everyone:
	Q: How much of the burden is put on the scientist to provide their own solutions?
12:32:50 From Tilak Ratnanather To Everyone:
	If everyone learnt cued speech, life would be simple! After all it helps to differentiate  consonants eg P,T,K - cued speech can be learnt in 5-10 mins (after all we all are auditory scientists and by training should know the classic phoneme production charts)
12:34:43 From Ally Jevens To Everyone:
	Q: At other institutions, are there people in the audience who can share their experiences?
12:35:14 From Patricia White To Everyone:
	We’ve found that for training D/HH scientists on equipment, there can be more difficulties.  A transcription, for example, doesn’t describe where certain buttons are, for example.
12:35:30 From Patricia White To Everyone:
	Does the panel have any suggestions on this?
12:35:57 From Brad Buran To Everyone:
	Patricia - the suggestions would depend on what their preferred mode of communication is. Are you talking about an oral deaf person?
12:36:12 From Lavinia Sheets To Everyone:
	Same issue for lab staff
12:36:33 From Brad Buran To Everyone:
	For oral deaf who rely on lipreading and residual auditory function, you just have to take it slow, pause and point to the appropriate button or perform the demonstration.
12:36:42 From Brad Buran To Everyone:
	Cue them in on what you are going to do, then do it.
12:36:42 From Patricia White To Everyone:
	In this instance, the student was Deaf.  We tried to get both an interpreter and a note taker.
12:36:56 From Brad Buran To Everyone:
	Don't talk while performing the step. Fill them in first, then do the step.
12:37:34 From Tilak Ratnanather To Everyone:
	use virtual reality ?
12:37:37 From Patricia White To Everyone:
	I agree, Brad.  Part of the problem is training the instructor to give the student time to take notes.  She can only look at one place at a time
12:37:45 From Patricia White To Everyone:
	VR would definitely be cool
12:38:09 From Brad Buran To Everyone:
	If it's a time-critical thing where you don't have the ability to pause, then you can consider alternate approaches (e.g., accept the fact that the experiment will fail because you couldn't perform the steps in the appropriate time allotted but at least do a dry run).
12:38:33 From Brad Buran To Everyone:
	Agreed. Accessibility is often about awareness and training.
12:38:35 From Julia Huyck To Everyone:
	You could create a captioned video demo?
12:39:12 From Patricia White To Everyone:
	A video demo is a great idea.
12:39:15 From Brad Buran To Everyone:
	Great suggestion Julia.
12:39:28 From Brad Buran To Everyone:
	In general, it does take time, but accessibility is all about being proactive and willing to invest the time in making it work.
12:40:23 From Ally Jevens To Everyone:
	Q: What are strategies to help students?
12:41:12 From Tilak Ratnanather To Everyone:
	captioning helps neurodivergent trainees - as has happened in the past few years.
12:41:31 From Brad Buran To Everyone:
	That's great to hear Tilak. I'm glad it's benefiting a wider audience.
12:42:42 From Tilak Ratnanather To Everyone:
	even those with SSD - because they can be fatigued (without even knowing it and with possible long term downstream consequences on health)
12:43:03 From Brad Buran To Everyone:
	SSD?
12:43:13 From Ray Goldsworthy To Everyone:
	Creating a collaborative rather than adversarial lab environment goes a long way
12:43:17 From Monita Chatterjee To Everyone:
	SSD=Single Sided Deafness
12:43:29 From Naomi Bramhall To Everyone:
	The FM system provides a much more favorable signal to noise ratio that hearing aids or cochlear implant alone.
12:43:31 From Brad Buran To Everyone:
	Thanks, Monita!
12:43:39 From Tilak Ratnanather To Everyone:
	@monita quick to the draw 😛
12:45:07 From Lina Reiss To Everyone:
	Sorry, it should be university but if department or PI is willing, that is fine too.
12:45:51 From Ally Jevens To Everyone:
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12:45:57 From Tilak Ratnanather To Everyone:
	One JHUSOM lab PI PAID for a HA for a PhD student who was discovered to have a mild hearing loss - now a pathology fellow in a SW medical school
12:46:48 From Ray Goldsworthy To Everyone:
	Please do
12:46:57 From Brad Buran To Everyone:
	Sorry, Lina, your point is excellent and I agree with you. Very important to encourage the use of the FM system. Thank you for bringing it up. I just wanted to reinforce that in general the university needs to be taking on greater responsibility for supporting diversity, equity and inclusion.
12:46:58 From Tilak Ratnanather To Everyone:
	NIH?NIDCD has a manual online --- the link is ...
12:47:02 From Ally Jevens To Everyone:
	Please email headquarters@aro.org with the resources
12:47:54 From Tilak Ratnanather To Everyone:
	https://www.training.nih.gov/assets/Guidelines_for_Mentoring_an_NIH_Trainee_Who_Is_Deaf_or_Hard_of_Hearing.pdf
12:48:12 From Lina Reiss To Everyone:
	Agree, very important to talk with your student/lab member about how best to accommodate
12:48:27 From Samantha Davis To Everyone:
	Students may also have a phone and headphones that can operate as a remote microphone if they are waiting on an assistive device or are hesitant to take that step.
12:49:04 From Lina Reiss To Everyone:
	The university should have such systems available to borrow/try, usually for large auditorium spaces.
12:49:58 From Ally Jevens To Everyone:
	Correct! I will have them online
12:50:12 From Ally Jevens To Everyone:
	headquarters@aro.org
12:50:13 From Tilak Ratnanather To Everyone:
	@lina - large auditoriums are bound by ADA to have a ADA kit - which should include a ALD (which can be hijacked for autocaptions)
12:50:34 From Brad Buran To Everyone:
	To add onto what Peter Steyger said, NIDCD is now becoming more assertive in their expectation that ADA accomodations are covered by university indirects.
12:51:06 From Peter Steyger To Everyone:
	That's good to know wrt NIDCD, Brad!
12:51:10 From Ally Jevens To Everyone:
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12:51:21 From Brad Buran To Everyone:
	If necessary, you can try getting a letter from your program officer stating that and then you can show it to the relevant university administrator.
12:52:49 From Brad Buran To Everyone:
	Great point Lina and Julia. Being Deaf from a young age I've grown used to the extra attention that it comes with and advocating for myself, but others may be embarrassed or want to try and hide it.
12:54:24 From Tilak Ratnanather To Everyone:
	If all talks were in PPT 365 or Google Slides, it is JUST two clicks to generate autocaptions which can be accurate (with good microphones). this proactive solution could make those more comfortable with "coming out of the closet"
12:54:50 From Peter Steyger To Everyone:
	this above from Tilak
12:54:54 From Monita Chatterjee To Everyone:
	Great point Tilak
12:56:10 From Patricia White To Everyone:
	Thanks, Tilak.  Great suggestion.
12:56:45 From Ally Jevens To Everyone:
	Correct!
12:57:13 From Marzieh Golabbakhsh To Everyone:
	what was the twitter for hearing aid?
12:58:03 From Marzieh Golabbakhsh To Everyone:
	Thanks
12:58:14 From Ally Jevens To Everyone:
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12:58:24 From Monita Chatterjee To Everyone:
	Does ARO ensure that meeting spaces are good acoustically?
12:58:26 From Julia Huyck To Everyone:
	#DisabledinHigherEd #NeurodiverseSquad
12:58:30 From Tilak Ratnanather To Everyone:
	check the accessibility link at the end of www.deafearscientists.org
12:58:50 From Brad Buran To Everyone:
	Also, if you have a deaf or hard of hearing trainee, be sure to introduce them to the HI-ARO group. All of the panelists are in the group so we can help with the introduction.
12:59:20 From Peter Steyger To Everyone:
	http://deafearscientists.org/
13:00:06 From Tilak Ratnanather To Everyone:
	https://connect-hear.com/
13:00:18 From Ally Jevens To Everyone:
	The poster hall is carpeted and posters will be spread out
13:00:48 From Peter Steyger To Everyone:
	Another good place for additional support is to join deaf ear scientists email list, and at the webpage of the same name
13:01:00 From Peter Steyger To Everyone:
	http://deafearscientists.org/
13:01:23 From Jane Mondul To Everyone:
	This was an excellent session! Thanks all!