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Over the last few months, it’s been Director of Development, Chad Leaman’s goal to connect to the communities and people that can make the LipSync a reality, and one that’s not only accessible in use, but also accessible in cost and availability.
Dr. Gary Birch, Executive Director of the Neil Squire Society has been invited by The Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, to participate in the OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Digital Economy: Innovation, Growth and Social Prosperity. The Ministerial meeting takes place from June 21-23, 2016 in Cancun, Mexico.
We sat down with Sandy Tucker and Jackie Hay of Memorial Elementary School to talk about their ongoing pilot project with Microsoft, and about how having AT in the school has led to some amazing successes in the classroom.
Dr. Gary Birch, Officer of the Order of Canada, and a recognized global expert on the impact of assistive technology for people with disabilities, will be representing civil society and the coordination mechanism as co-chair of Round Table 3 of the 9th session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, taking place June 14-16, 2016 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, New York.
Sometimes the best way to learn is to teach — that’s the lesson Keisha learned as a Neil Squire Society youth intern at the Penticton Indian Band’s Footprints to Technology Centre.