# @hollandbloorview on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DKNWPI-p_hg
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/31083292-hollandbloorview-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-05-28T19:13:10.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Holland Bloorview (@hollandbloorview) — https://gondola.cc/hollandbloorview

## Caption

In his leadership of the PRISM lab at the Bloorview Research Institute, Dr. Chau is removing barriers to communication for kids with disabilities. He remembers a five-year-old child who called his dad while he was at work. Using The Hummingbird with AAC software, he typed out the words, “Hi dad. How are you? Goodbye.” 

“It was a really emotional experience for the dad. Things that are usually considered to be very ordinary things in people's everyday lives have become world-shattering experiences for these families," Dr. Chau, who is also a professor at bme_uoft, says.

This #NationalAccessAbilityWeek, read more about Dr. Chau’s transformational research at the link in bio. 
(Photo credit: Tim Fraser)
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Image description: Dr. Chau, sitting on a lab bench, rests his hand on the head of a child-sized mannequin. The mannequin is wearing a kind of headband with wires coming out of it. Facing Dr. Chau, to the right, are two other people, looking at the mannequin. They are all smiling.

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