Connie, who has hearing loss, is looking for work. Her local WorkBC Centre referred her to WorkBC Assistive Technology Services (ATS) for help funding the hearing aids she needs for the job search process and for her future employment.

“Having this assistance has been life changing for me! I never knew how much I was actually missing not being able to hear properly. Being able to hear clearly what is being said to me both one on one and in larger conversations is going to assist me in my career more than I actually realized,” she shares.

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In October, our Prairie Regional Office donated Solutions for School assistive technology kits to six schools in Yellowknife Education District #1. Each kit contains upwards of $1,200 worth of assistive technology, allowing students to access and trial a wide variety of low- and high-tech solutions.

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If you’ve ever used Microsoft Word, you probably know that the built-in grammar checker isn’t always perfect. But thankfully, there are lots of other options when it comes to grammar checkers, and some of them (like the app that we are looking at today) can even be directly installed into Word or your browser.

Trinka is an AI-powered grammar checker and language correction tool specifically designed for academic, technical, and formal writing. The platform can detect and correct over 3,000 complex grammatical mistakes, including issues related to scientific tone, style, and grammar.

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With the help of WorkBC Assistive Technology Services, Coralee, who has hearing loss, got the hearing aids she needs to find a job and thrive in her future workplace.

“These new hearing aids are giving me more confidence to look for work,” she shares.

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In a video episode of our AT Help Desk team’s podcast, “We Have Solutions,” our team tests a variety of chatbots ability to generate homework and study material. We used Gemini, Co-Pilot, Claude, and ChatGPT to test a variety of spelling and math homework prompts to see which chatbot could come up with the best material. The results were both impressive and surprising!

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Almoneda works as a pharmacy assistant, and her job includes filling prescriptions and answering phones. She has hearing loss, and she found that she was often having to ask customers and co-workers to repeat themselves.

Through WorkBC Assistive Technology Services, Almoneda received funding for the hearing aids she needs for work. She’s seen a big difference in her workday, now able to hear conversations with much less effort.

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Today we are going to learn about a free resource called CK-12. This website is always free, and it has a huge collection of learning resources for parents, teachers, and students. The content on the website is aligned to the U.S. curriculum, but there’s so many accessible resources and learning materials that it still deserves some time in the spotlight.

First, when you navigate to the websites home page, you’ll be greeted by an AI tutor named Flexi who can answer virtually any question. This speech-to-text-friendly tool allows users to input drawn or typed equations, pictures, and it even features a built-in math keyboard.

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Alaa, who has hearing loss, works as an employment counsellor. Thanks to WorkBC Assistive Technology Services, she was able to get the assistive technology she needs to thrive at work.

“WorkBC Assistive Technology [Services] generously funded my hearing aid. [My] case manager was supportive and the whole process didn’t take much time,” she shares. “I am able now to communicate effectively with my colleagues and clients.”

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Note-taking apps have come a long way in recent years. Not long ago, students and professionals had to choose between typing their notes or recording audio and manually transcribing it later. Now, with the help of voice-to-text transcription technology, it’s possible to capture every word in a meeting or lecture without having to manually type out a single word.

We’ve already explored some great transcription/notetaking options in the past such as Otter.ai, (which still holds the top spot for voice-to-text transcription apps), but today we are going to look at another great notetaking app that deserves our attention.

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Congratulations to our Director of Audiology, Heather Ritchie, on receiving the Canadian Academy of Audiology (CAA) Rising Star Award today at the CAA Conference in Blue Mountain, Ontario.

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