I have a 16-year-old son with autism, and in our world, our lives have been made immeasurably easier because there has been an explosion of technology and apps, particularly right now, that allow him to communicate. He doesn't talk, so he uses his iPhone to talk for him, because it has a little bit louder output than an iPod.
Before that, we had a $10,000 speech device that was about 15 times as big, and now he has an iPhone that does exactly the same thing for $189 for the Proloquo2go app, and the cost of the iPhone. Is there a similar advance in technology that would benefit blind Canadians?