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DeafBlind Awareness Month: Celebrating Connection, Community, and Independence
Each June, people across Canada come together to recognize DeafBlind Awareness Month. It’s a time to learn more about DeafBlindness, advocate for change, and celebrate the strength and success of people who live with both hearing and vision loss. DeafBlindness affects...
The Importance of Getting Your Hearing Tested: When and Why It’s Critical
Have you noticed the TV creeping louder than usual? Or that you are asking people to repeat themselves more often, especially in noisy places? These might be early signs of hearing loss. A lot of people think hearing loss only happens as we age, but it can affect...
Wavefront Centre expands access to Audio Accessibility solutions
At Wavefront Centre, we are committed to breaking down barriers to accessibility and ensuring that everyone can fully experience arts, culture and live performance. By bringing Bettear to more locations across Canada, communication and listening become more...
Social Meals: Building Community & Spreading Kindness
Supporting you and our community means a lot to us and our values as a leader in hearing health innovations. Our team loves putting on events each month to bring people together for a better cause – and some good food never hurts, either! February’s Social Meals...
Understanding Your Audiogram: What Are Your Hearing Test Results?
At the end of your comprehensive hearing test, your audiologist will go over your results using something called an audiogram – a graph that maps out how well you hear different sounds. At first glance, it might look a little confusing, but don’t worry! Your...
What to Ask Your Hearing Aid Professional
New hearing aids can provide an improvement to your quality of life. Whether they’re your first or your latest pair, getting the most recent technology for your hearing can provide many benefits. During your hearing aid fitting appointment, your hearing aid...
Do I Need a Hearing Test?
If you have been struggling to hear your friends and loved ones in crowded spaces, are finding yourself turning up the volume on the TV or radio, or can’t seem to recall what someone told you yesterday, chances are that you’re dealing with some level of hearing loss....
Tinnitus Retraining Therapy in Vancouver
Hearing a phantom ringing, buzzing, whooshing, or whistling in your ears? You’re not alone. Tinnitus affects millions of Canadians across the nation, and many don’t realize its effects until it starts to change their day-to-day lives. Tinnitus affects everyone...
Wavefront Centre Scored a 96/100 Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification – What Does This Mean for You?
Under the Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification (RHFAC), Wavefront Centre for Communication Accessibility scored an incredible 96 out of 100 points. With over 1,300 sites across Canada rated through the RHFAC, we’re delighted with the fact that we...
Employment Services With Wavefront Centre for Communication Accessibility
While we’ve made major leaps and bounds in the world of accessible employment services for those who are Deaf, DeafBlind, or Hard of Hearing, these individuals still face daily challenges and exclusion in employment and education settings due to communication...