Deaf Health Lab

Join CCL’s collaborator, Dr. Mike McKee with Nigel Howard and Sarah Hein, as they talk about the COVID-19 vaccine. It will be provided in ASL and also captioned. Pls share among your networks!

TeleHealth has surged in use by medical providers after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic! We want to know your experiences and frustrations! Take the survey and spread the word! https://rit.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ogeykh83sK9Hil #telehealth #accessibility #Deaf #HardofHearing

We have a new study!!! We want to understand how deaf and hard of hearing people living in America navigate health care. This study specifically focuses on TeleHealth, which has surged in use by medical providers after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic! Are you 18 or older & deaf or hard of hearing? We’d love to hear about your experiences, frustrations, and what works. Take this survey & tell us!!! https://rit.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ogeykh83sK9Hil [Video Descriptio...n: A white female is signing at the camera, wearing an orange RIT longsleeve. She has long, wavy, dark brown hair with slight blonde ombre at the tip of her hair. Behind her is a corner of a room with tan walls and a black frame hung to the right of the female signer. The frame contains a cloth/tapestry of repeatitve alternating symbols of fishes and moths in black and white mimicking a checkerboard pattern] [Transcript: Hello!!! I have something to share!! If you have experienced using telehealth for appointments with your doctor or if you have any experiences, feelings, thoughts about the benefits and weaknesses of using telehealth; please take our survey! You are qualified if you are deaf/hard of hearing and 18+ years old. At RIT/NTID, the Deaf Health Lab aims to use the collected data to document your telehealth experiences. Using your stories we want to be able to validate and improve our future experiences in health care including full access and utilization of health services, and obtaining equitable health information in ASL. Please complete the survey, sharing your experiences will support our study's goals and it means a lot! Thank you!]

Last but not least, our third RA, Ashley Mussallem, did terrific too rounding out our star team! She presented on the "Double Disparity in Deaf and Hard of Hearing College Students’ Health Literacy" at the Health Literacy Annual Research Conference! #DeafHealth #HealthLiteracy #CollegeStudents

We are proud of Surya Sahetapy & the great job he did presenting "Deaf Community’s Access to Internet and eHealth Literacy" at the Health Literacy Annual Research Conference! #DeafHealth #eHealthLiteracy #AccesstoInformation

One of our RAs, Daphine Postl, did a phenomenal job presenting preliminary results on the "Deaf Community's Experience of COVID-19" at the Health Literacy Annual Research Conference! #DeafHealth #COVID19 #healthliteracy

A huge congratulations are in order for these folks: Dr. Alesia Allen, Assistant Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion; Dr. Joseph Hill, Assistant Dean for ALANA faculty recruitment and retention; Thomastine Sarchet-Maher, Assistant Dean of ALANA outreach access and success; and... Dr. Peter C. Hauser, Assistant Dean of Research Mentoring WAY TO GO!!!!!

We are still recruiting for our second wave! Please email us if you are interested at [email protected] & share with your networks

See info below about a webinar provided by one of our collaborators! ASL interpreters will be provided.

ICYMI: A publication from Center for Deaf Health Equity on the first U.S.-based study of Deaf transgender adults. In this paper, they wanted to find out if there were differences in medical and mental health conditions between Deaf and hearing transgender adults. A collaboration between Keith Sanfacon, Alex Leffers, Cara Miller, Oliver Stabbe, Lori DeWindt, Kathryn Wagner, and Poorna Kushalnagar made this publication possible! This is one of many reasons we do #DeafHealth #Research!

In this video, our lab director talks about the risks to pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is one of many reasons we want to learn more about your pregnancy experiences! If you are deaf or hard of hearing and have given birth in the past 10 years, please consider sharing your experience. Go to the survey link in the comments to find out if you are eligible. Thank you! #DeafHealth... #Pregnancy See more

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Check out this opportunity to see Deaf STEM role models via webinar for children of all ages. Featuring our very own Deaf Health Lab director Dr. Tiffany Panko.

Deaf? Given birth in the past 10 years? Please consider taking this survey!