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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Today, our Solutions team is hosting students from Capilano University‘s Rehabilitation Assistant Program for a visit to our Burnaby Head Office and Solutions Lab.

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Brenda works as a receptionist and administrator for a fertility clinic. Her job involves helping patients and staff with treatment cycles, billing the treatment cycles, and medications, as well as answering phones. Recently, however, her old hearing aids were starting to fail, making her job more difficult.

“I am hard of hearing, and I require up to date hearing aids in order to understand my co-workers and patients that are in the office. Fertility is a sensitive topic for our patients, and I need to understand conversations around me,” she shares. “I had older hearing aids recently and they were no longer working as good as they did in the past, this was making me exhausted as I was trying to figure out conversation all day and it can be very draining.”

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Math solver apps such as MathMaster have been around for a while, and from my experience, they work surprisingly well. But what if there was an app that could solve more than just math equations? What if there was something that could answer virtually any question?

Gauth is an AI study app designed to not only answer any type of math problem, but also questions related to History, Biology, Physics, Economics, Chemistry, Literature, and more.

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Sonya works as a secretary at an elementary school, and her job includes answering phones, computer work, and assisting students when they come to the office. However, she has hearing loss, and was finding it difficult to hear students when they needed help.

Her audiologist referred her to WorkBC Assistive Technology Services for help funding the hearing aids she needs to do her job effectively. She decided to apply and was quickly approved.

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Recently, my nine-year-old was tasked with learning a set of twenty spelling words. Her teacher had provided her with some excellent practice sheets, but it quickly became apparent that she was going to need some additional study material in order to master these new words.

I turned to ChatGPT for help, and after experimenting with a few different prompts, I was very impressed with the results. So, for today’s e-bulletin, we are going to learn how to use ChatGPT to generate supplemental study material.

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In this episode we review some great new apps including Blitzit, ReadSpeak TextAid, and Huxe, a brand-new app from the creators of Notebook LM that turns everything from personal emails to news into your own personal AI powered radio station. We also look at a promising new piece of hardware called the TourBox Creative Console that has a lot of potential as an adaptive controller.

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Dallas provides catering to remote camps as a head chef and head camp manager. He oversees all of the kitchen duties, and runs the office and operation of the camp lodging.

“Hearing impairment affects my work ability greatly as communication is very important,” he shares. “Without hearing aids, simple communication can become difficult, and instructions given or received can become unclear.”

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Tools for reading text aloud aren’t just for persons with disabilities. Anyone who reads or writes online can benefit from text being read aloud. Certainly every time I finish writing an article, I immediately have it read aloud to pick up on any spelling or grammar errors, to listen for proper tone and delivery, and to make sure that the sentences I write actually make sense!

And while Edge has a great feature for reading articles online, and Word can be used to read writing aloud, today we are going to look at a tool that does everything these two apps do plus much, much more.

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Deborah works at an airport. “Accurate hearing is imperative in performing my duties,” she shares. “I am affected by age-related mild to moderate hearing loss which was affecting my ability to function as well as is needed in my day-to-day duties at work.”

She needed hearing aids, and learned about funding available for work-related supports through WorkBC Assistive Technology Services from a co-worker. She decided to apply and was quickly approved. “The program helped me to afford to get my hearing aids,” she says.

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