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Tyler Fentie, the Accessible Gaming Lead for Neil Squire’s Makers Making Change program, was honoured to be invited by the Gyeonggi Rehabilitation Engineering Service Research Support Center to speak at the 2025 International Symposium on Assistive Technology in Seoul, South Korea on June 11th.
On May 29th and 30th, the Makers Making Change team attended the Skills Canada National Competition in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Lois works as an administrative assistant for a regional health authority. A large part of her job involves taking minutes for meetings and fielding many task requests. The meetings are held both in-person and virtually, and she found she was having trouble with her hearing loss in both contexts.
Joplin is an open source note-taking app that can support a wide variety of multimedia types including images, videos, audio files, and more. Users can also create math expressions and diagrams directly in the app.
Hazen works as a care aid in a long-term care facility. A young cancer survivor, she has hearing loss as a side effect of her treatment, which affects her confidence in communicating in the workplace.