I’d like to introduce myself as Henry J. Adler. I have been profoundly deaf since birth, and I am fluent in both spoken English (including lipreading) and American Sign Language (ASL). I’ve attended Ivy League institutions (I received my Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania in late 1993), and have worked as a researcher, as a teacher, and as a mentor at numerous research and academic institutes such as University of Michigan, the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, University of Maryland, Gallaudet University, Rochester Institute of Technology – National Technical Institute for the Deaf, and now the University at Buffalo. At Buffalo, I’ve been doing research on tinnitus, hyperacusis, and inflammation in the mammalian inner ear for the past five or six years. Here, I’m going to present my own personal blogs. The first one will focus on the complicated picture of how face masks and speech-to-text technology are affecting people with hearing loss, including myself.
August 2, 2020 – Oops, the post on face masks will have to wait a bit longer, but I’ve added another post explaining my choice of graduate schools.