Olivia Meehan Speech, Language & Behaviour Analytic Services

11/12/2025

The Nova Scotia Government wants your input on supported decision making.

You can share your feedback in two ways:
Join an in-person or virtual session happening now until December 12, 2025.

To find a date and time that works for you, please register here:
https://calendly.com/d/cspq-hkm-6w2

Send your thoughts in writing, video, or audio using the feedback form.

Everyone is welcome. If you use supported decision-making, or help someone who does, or work with these programs, your ideas are needed.

Please help spread the word with your networks.

Join an in-person or virtual session happening now until December 12, 2025.
Learn more and find all details at the government website.

https://novascotia.ca/supported-decision-making-engagement/

For help getting involved, call 1-800-961-1779
or email engagement@researchpowerinc.com.

10/15/2025

10/15/2025

If you are a parent of a child with complex medical needs, you are invited to join us on

Thursday November 6th, 2025
Thursday December 11th, 2025
7:00 -8:30 pm

Our Parent Group is an informal meeting where parents can share tips and tricks of caring for their child with complex special needs!

Interested in attending?
Please email Jackie Pidduck at jacklynn.pidduck@iwk.nshealth.ca

Please note to receive the Zoom link, we will ask you to review the virtual group guidelines that will be emailed to you, to provide the address of where you will be during the meeting and a contact number in case of emergency.

08/07/2025

Join our team at LEARNINGO 💙

Learningo: Community, Recreation & Education Society

01/25/2025

Time well spent over the holidays learning how to identify and support clients who are Gestalt Language Processors 📚♾️

12/19/2024

Helping Your Child with ADHD, Helping Anxious Children, and Promoting Positive Behaviours in Children programs are being offered by NSHA in Kingston in January!

10/22/2024

09/05/2024

Looking for a part-time co-schooling program for your child? Join us at Learningo: Community, Recreation & Education Society. Limited spaces available 📚✏️

08/19/2024

PSA for those travelling from Windsor direction, taking Exit 8 ⚠️

UPDATE: Mount Denson Bridge
Engineers have assessed and are estimating a minimum of one month closure to complete repairs. No traffic permitted across bridge until repairs are made. Permanent closure barricades enroute. We ask that the public avoid the area and stay completely away from bridge structure. (Source: Paul Maynard; Hantsport Fire)

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Bridge considered "collapsing, weak structural integrity, and generally unsafe" on Highway 1 in Mount Denson over the Halfway River — the bridge coming into Hantsport.

Highway 1 is currently impassable, due to the closure — use Highway 101 to Ben Jackson, or Bog Road.

Public Works advising this bridge will be closed for an "extended period of time." Long term outage.

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Hantsport Fire - All Available Firefighters to the Fire Station — Bridge Collapse - 09:49

RCMP, Municipal & Provincial Public Works to scene. EHS advised.

05/23/2024

We are very happy to (again) be supporting and promoting the "Stronger Together" (previously known as GirlStrong) program designed and facilitated by Kym Hume & Yvonne Rafuse!

It is a unique opportunity to participate in a learning environment with the goal of building self-awareness, confidence, and personal autonomy, all while having a mini-university experience! A supportive, autism friendly environment will be the setting for interactive sessions and special events.

The program will take place July 5-7 at Acadia University. Participants must be aged 15-30 and caregivers are welcome. The cost is $80/person.

**Priority will be given to those females with autism (ages 15-30) and a parent who have never attended the retreat**

For more information or to register, please contact Kym directly, kym.hume@ns.sympatico.ca

05/15/2024

First Provincial Autism Action Plan

Here’s hoping this leads to some much needed (long overdue) change for the autistic community 🧠♾️

Nova Scotians with autism and their families will see improved services and supports with the development of a new provincial autism action plan.

“People with autism and their families deserve to be supported in this province – whether they are under five and just getting a diagnosis, or adults who need support at home or in the workplace,” said Brian Comer, Minister of Addictions and Mental Health. “A provincial autism action plan will give us a clear picture of what supports are out there today so we can identify the gaps and work with our partners to fill them.”

The action plan will:
- describe and identify the current services, supports, interventions and programs for children, youth and adults on the autism spectrum and their families in Nova Scotia
- identify current government strategies, action plans and initiatives that could be used to better support the current needs of Nova Scotians with autism and their families
- identify gaps and make recommendations for supports and services within the public, private and community sectors.

The work will be led by the government in partnership with Autism Nova Scotia and will include input from people with autism and their families, educators, healthcare professionals and representatives from community organizations.

Community engagement will begin this fall and the action plan is expected to be released next spring.

Details about the development of the plan and how to get involved will be available in the coming weeks at: https://www.autismnovascotia.ca/