(Photos:  Laura Frazee)

As many of you already know, the School of Human Communication Disorders has moved.  After 35 years at Fenwick Tower, the SHCD is now located in The Thompson at 1256 Barrington Street.  Dalhousie’s Senior Management made the decision to move SHCD in early June, prompted by information about ongoing construction planned for Fenwick.  It was an ambitious plan to find a suitable new location, have the space designed and built to meet their needs, and then execute the move – all before students arrived in early September.  Miraculously, however, that did occur, and by September 2, 2011, the entire contents of the School were transferred to the newly constructed space at The Thompson – just a few days before students arrived to begin the new accademic year.

The Thompson is several blocks east of the previous location on Fenwick Street and close to Dal’s Sexton Campus.  The School occupies the third and sixth floors, and part of the fifth floor.  The Learning Resources Center occupies the fourth floor and the remainder of the fifth.  Classrooms, seminar rooms, the student lounge and computer lab are located on the third floor.  The reception area for the School is on the sixth floor along with the administrative offices, audiology faculty offices, audiology research and teaching labs, speech science faculty office, and speech science research and teaching labs.  Speech-language pathology faculty offices as well as speech-language research and teaching labs are located on the fifth floor.