SCI BC recently sat down with our AT Help Desk team to learn how people with disabilities can use artificial intelligence (AI) to help solve everyday problems.

“I think AI is a really big opportunity for the world of disabilities,” says Seaver Stafford. Stafford, an Assistive Technology Technician for the Neil Squire Society, manages the AT Help Desk website and connects people with disabilities with assistive technology information. The AT website is part of the AT Help Desk program that launched in 2013.

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Our Prairie Team visited École Monseigneur De Laval in Regina yesterday and donated a French language Solutions for Schools kit. The 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. The school’s Grade 6 class was super engaged and had lots of great questions for our team.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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