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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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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