Professor Michele L. Cooke was recently featured by UMass Magazine discussing Deaf Gain and the value that deaf and hard-of-hearing people provide to the larger community.

Read her post about it on The Mind Hears, and see a video re-enactment (filmed by PhD student Laura Fattaruso) of her acceptance speech for the outstanding researcher award from the College of Natural Sciences at UMass Amherst where she discusses the benefits of deaf and hard-of-hearing people give to the broader research community.