Rita’s New Hearing Aids Give Her Confidence in the Job Search
With her new hearing aids she received thanks to the help from WorkBC Assistive Technology Services, Rita feels much more confident in her job search.
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Thank you Studio Seventy Three for the delightful gift — a stained glass art piece featuring our 40th anniversary logo.
“I don’t feel as tired at the end of the day. I feel like I can participate more in group conversations as I can understand what people are saying. I feel like I hear quicker, if that makes sense, which means I can catch nonverbal cues that go with conversations that I previously missed or misinterpreted.”
On Friday, we celebrated the milestone and everyone who has been a part of our journey with a Party in the Parking Lot at our Burnaby Head Office. Friends old and new filled our parking lot for a free barbecue, live music by Digger Dan, and an afternoon to remember.
The students at Templeton Secondary School’s STEM program had a hefty task at hand. First, they needed to figure out how to switch adapt a toy, taking it apart and modifying it so that a child with a disability could more easily play with it using an adaptive switch. Then, they needed to make instructions to help future makers adapt that same toy.