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Volume 13
CASLPO 2024–2025 DEI Report Released
Continuing the Momentum” is a report from the College of Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists of Ontario (CASLPO) that highlights their efforts to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in the services offered by audiologists and speech-language pathologists in Ontario.
More Than Inclusive: Building Affirming Care for 2SLGBTQ+ Communities
In many ways, Canada is ahead of the curve when it comes to protecting the rights of Two Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning (2SLGBTQ+1) people and promoting equal access to healthcare. Still, issues of healthcare inequality and discrimination persist.
What’s New about Getting Older
Fundamentally, people living with hearing loss have a right to be included, and we all have an obligation to advocate for their inclusion. Accessibility is our social responsibility.
Guest Editorial: An Even Better Idea than DEI
Accessibility Commissioner of Canada In the first weeks of my role as Accessibility Commissioner, severe wildfires swept across my home province of Newfoundland and Labrador. No stranger to extreme weather, the province’s emergency preparedness system moved quickly. Alerts were issued across radio, television, and mobile devices. Emergency broadcasts included captioning and ASL interpretation. They had…
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Recognizing Privilege
A few years ago, I had a set of in-ear headphones that I used to listen to music, and, as an audiologist, I made a pair of custom molds. Because the eartips frequently slipped out of the silicon molds, I used a short length of #13 hearing aid tubing to secure them, but over time…
Volume 6
Accessibility: A Community Affair
Anne Griffin brings us up to speed on recent accessibility efforts in Grand Falls-Windsor, Central Newfoundland.