SHANS Expo

“Communicate for Life”

SHANS hosted its first annual SHANS Speech and Hearing Expo on November 5, 2011. The Expo showcased speech and hearing services available in Nova Scotia, including private, public, and not-for-profit organizations. Services promoted included hearing, balance, speech, language, cognition, and swallowing as well as other related services for infants, children, adults, and seniors.

 Along with exhibitions on speech, hearing, language, and related services, free public presentations took place in the Nantucket Room:

11:00am Sign Language Puppet Show
12:00pm Autism
1:00pm Demystifying Hearing Aids
2:00pm Tinnitus
3:00pm French Language Storytime
4:00pm App-Talk for Speech-Language Therapy
5:00pm ENT Talk: Tubes, Tonsils & Adenoids

Hear about Nova Scotian services in Hearing and Speech

Speak about prevention and promotion of Hearing and Speech disorders

Reconnect with Hearing and Speech professionals!

To register your organization for the Annual Speech and Hearing Expo (or if you have any questions about the event), please email shansexpo@gmail.com for more information. Check back next year for information about next years’ SHANS Expo.
DONATIONS ARE WELCOME!

SHANS would like to thank the following volunteers for all of their hard work organizing the Expo:

Emily Balkam                           Renena Joy
Paul Doucet                               Erin Lamond
Brenda MacKay                       Melanie Moore
Jennifer Parker                        Janine Verge
Lisa Spinney-Hutton

List of Participating Organizations

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

Bronze Sponsors

ALS Society
APSEA
Autism Research Centre
CASLPA- Canadian Association of Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists
Deaf Literacy Nova Scotia
Deafness Advocacy Association Nova Scotia
Department of Community Services – Special Needs Division
EIBI- Early Intensive Behavioural Intervention
Halifax Regional Fire Department
InteRACT
Laryngectomy Support Group
Learning Disabilities Association of Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia Aphasia Association
Nova Scotia Hearing and Speech Centres
Parkinson Maritimes
Progress Centre for Early Intervention
QEII-HSC-Head and Neck
Read to Me!
Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse
School of Human Communication Disorders
SHANS
Society of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Nova Scotians
Sounds +
Straight Regional School Board Speech Services
Stuttering Support Group
Tinnitus Support Group of Atlantic Canada
TiPS

Doorprize Sponsors