02/15/2026
Untreated hearing loss can limit an individual’s ability to excel in the workplace. Don’t let hearing loss prevent you from securing meaningful employment.
Lena works as an ESL teacher. Her duties include helping the students practice pronunciation, providing guidance and feedback, and managing the flow of class, all in a noisy and fast-paced environment. She has hearing loss.
“Without my hearing aids it was extremely difficult for me to communicate efficiently with my students, understand their comments and questions, as well as help my students become confident while speaking, because they were not sure if they made any mistakes every time I could not hear them,” she shares.
Needing new hearing aids for work, her audiologist referred her to WorkBC Assistive Technology Services for help funding them. She applied and was quickly approved. “I was helped to purchase my hearing aids,” she says. “[It] was a great financial relief for my family and myself.
“I can now communicate much more easily with my students; understand their questions and identify their mistakes, as well as making them feel more comfortable when interacting with me and with each other,” she explains. “The class flows more easily and I now have better communication with my peers as well.”
Read more: https://www.neilsquire.ca/workbc-assistive-technology-services-helped-improve-the-quality-of-my-work-and-my-self-confidence/
