“It’s a Toy, but It’s So Much More to Her”
“She has some sense of independence when she can play with this, she doesn’t have to rely on any of us to turn it on for her.”
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“She has some sense of independence when she can play with this, she doesn’t have to rely on any of us to turn it on for her.”
“I am so much less frustrated and [I’m] happier at work,” Karen explains. “I can hear everything on the phone now and I no longer need co-workers and clients to repeat themselves.”
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“I have a lot of interaction with co-workers, visitors and residents, and the surroundings are kind of loud,” Belle says. “I barely hear what people are telling me, I always asked them to repeat what they said, or sometimes pretend that I heard them.”
Neil Squire respectfully acknowledges that we do our work on the traditional and ancestral territories of Indigenous Peoples who are stewards of these lands, colonially known as Canada, since time immemorial. Indigenous lands across Canada are either self-governed by First Nations under modern treaty, unceded and surrendered territories, or traditional territories from which they have been displaced. We are grateful to be living and working on this land.
Our physical head office is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, specifically the territories of the Kwikwetlem, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.