Digital Jumpstart Helps Sarah Use Dragon to Navigate Her Computer With Her Voice
Sarah was having problems with her phone and iPad. Now retired, she knew from her previous career working with persons with disabilities to reach out to Neil Squire.
GAME Checkpoint: West Park Healthcare Centre
The West Park Healthcare Centre in Toronto is one of seven GAME Checkpoints, a network of partner organizations led by Neil Squire’s Makers Making Change program that help people with disabilities access adaptive gaming.
HDR Toronto Staff Give the Gift of Play
At HDR, an architecture and engineering firm with offices across Canada and the world, giving back to the community is an important part of their company culture. So when their Toronto office learned of an opportunity to adapt toys for children with disabilities as part of the #HackingForTheHolidays campaign by Neil Squire’s Makers Making Change program, they jumped at the opportunity.
HSBC Bank Canada Helps Kick Off #HackingForTheHolidays by Adapting 35 Toys for Kids With Disabilities
To kick off #HackingForTheHolidays 2023, we partnered with HSBC Bank Canada to host a build event on September 18th. HSBC Bank Canada employees from Toronto and Vancouver volunteered their time to adapt 35 toys that will be donated to local hospitals and kids with disabilities.
“This Opens up a Whole World of Creativity That I Had Lost”
“We brainstormed what my needs were and what I’d like to try out. And the beauty of this is I can try things out without breaking the bank,” Sarah says. “Living on a pension limits my ability to experiment with expensive things.”