CBC News
Posted: Oct 26, 2011 3:50 PM ET
A new technology called “hearing loop” helps block out ambient noise for those who have hearing aids. (Matt Dunham/Associated Press)
Advocates for the hearing impaired are hoping a technology that drastically reduces background noise for the hearing impaired will find a home in public
spaces across Canada.
The University and the AMS have halted the installment of a wheelchair lift due to funding constraints
By Katherine Fernandez-Blance,
News Editor
25th October 2011
Louise Bark hasn’t been able to return to her volunteer position at CFRC since April because the radio station’s office in the basement of Carruthers Hall
isn’t wheelchair accessible.
A team of carefully coached and experienced trainers, who all live with different disabilities. We have been working together, providing quality programs since 1995. Since we began our program, more than 20,000 people have benefited from our training services. We were the first organization to use trainers with disabilities, and we’re still the only organization that employs teams of presenters who are all disabled.
By: Julia Kuzeljevich
2011-10-04
Call it demographics, or call it reality. In Canada, the percentage of disabled workers in the overall population, which currently stands near 15%, is expected to rise over the next 20 years.
In the province of Ontario alone, one in seven people has some form of disability. Chances are, if you are not disabled yourself, someone in your immediate circle may be, and they may not be “wearing it on their sleeve,” so to speak.
