Durant Democrat: Hearing impaired Southeastern instructor finds ways to communicate with her class (opens in new tab)

Southeastern instructor Tiara Blue is hearing impaired and has taught online courses for three years at Murray State College after working as a teacher’s assistant at OU for two years. She was hired in fall 2025 as an adjunct instructor at Southeastern in the Department of English, Humanities, and Languages, and this has given her a unique challenge because she had never taught inside an actual brickand- mortar classroom.