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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Productivity apps are great because they are useful to pretty much anyone who is of school age or older. Whether you are a student, or a working professional, you’re going to have lots of things happening in both your personal and work life that you’ll need to keep track of.

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Gabriel is self-employed in the tech field. He works in an office and needs to wear leg orthoses for moving around in the office space, as well as to and from work.

“I have a bone condition, osteogenesis imperfecta, commonly known as ‘brittle bones.’ The condition makes me easily susceptible to fractures and therefore needing braces for support. These create challenges to carry out my work tasks,” he shares.

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Almost ten years ago we reviewed Quizlet for the first time. It was a great app then, and today it’s even better thanks to the app’s integration of AI technology.

Quizlet, currently the top contender for Flashcard apps in the app store, is a great way to study. Simply put, the app allows you to either create your own custom flashcard sets by scanning documents with the build scanner, selecting pre-downloaded images or text files, creating them manually, or choosing from a library of pre-existing cards.

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Lovisa works with an organization helping women fleeing abuse. Her job involves talking with clients in-person and over the phone, a task made difficult by her hearing loss.

“I help them find a safe place to stay and other resources that they need,” she explains. “I have limited hearing in both ears since birth. It impacts my work in a way that is very challenging, I am taking down wrong information and mishearing things.”

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Rai works as a health care assistant, taking care of seniors and other patients who need help with their everyday needs. She has severe hearing loss and needed hearing aids. She learned about WorkBC Assistive Technology Services (ATS) from a co-worker and decided to apply.

“They helped me in funding, so I was able to buy the top-quality hearing aids. They guided me through every step and were very informative to me. I wouldn’t have been able to get the aids without their support,” she shares. “I would not have been able to continue my job without my hearing aids.”

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Assistive Technology Specialist, Erin LeBlanc, recently appeared on HumanWare‘s podcast, “See Things Differently,” as part of their partner spotlight featuring our organization.

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Brenda works as a Registered Dietitian on Vancouver Island. She provides nutritional education and counseling to clients with various health conditions both in-person and virtually, and also facilitates in-person group nutrition programs.

“I have hearing loss in both ears, and this was impacting my ability to communicate effectively with my clients in-person. I would often have to ask them to repeat themselves. In group settings, I would have to move closer to people sitting at the back of the room to hear them properly,” she explains.

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Having previously been employed as a security guard, Cameron is looking for work in a new field. He has hearing loss, which was making his job search more difficult as he has a hard time hearing other people.

His WorkBC Employment Centre referred him to WorkBC Assistive Technology Services for help funding the hearing aids he needs for his job search and future employment. He applied and was quickly approved for a new set of hearing aids.

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We’ve looked at plenty of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) apps in the past, but with OCR apps I find that it’s often worth having a couple different options on hand, since these apps don’t always produce the same results depending on what kind of source material you have to scan.

Docutain is an app for iOS and Android that does all the things you’d expect from an OCR app but also goes further than most in its approach to document organization, so for users who scan a wide variety of documents, this app is especially well laid out.

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