The Child’s Place for Children with Special Needs and Kidsmobile

Library Service with a Difference

The Child’s Place for children with Special Needs

Meets the information and recreation needs of children with disabilities and the families, educators, therapist and other adults in their lives.

Children Come to the Library

Our Garden ClubAfter School Stories

Read and Play

Many Ways to Learn… Words Math Movement Social

Thinking and Feeling

Art Music Nature

… And We Use All of Them: A Program on Spring Picture book about spring – words and art Explain vernal equinox – math Talk about how we feel about spring – social

and feelings Make a collage using seeds and dried flowers

– art and nature Sing and dance to the song “Inch by Inch” –

music and dance

The Library Goes to Children Schools Hospitals Foster Care Homeless Shelters Juvenile Detention Kidsmobile

Services to Schools

Class Visits at the Library Class Visits at the School Workshops for Parents, Teachers and other

Professionals

Hospital Storytelling We read to children

in clinics and hospitals

We give them books to keep and library cards

Library Service on the Move

Supporting Families and Educators Workshops for Parent and Caregivers 5,000 volume collection focusing on

raising children with disabilities In Service Training for other institutions Demonstrations in the library

Workshops

Helping Children with Disabilities Learn to Read

Autism Assistive Technology Behavior Management Getting Jobs for People

with Intellectual Disabilities

Many others

VolunteersOver 20 volunteers with and

without disabilities Reading Troubadours go to

clinics Office and program volunteers

Volunteers Cont.“I love being a volunteer at the library, because

I have a chance to change my lifestyle and contribute to other people when I’m needed. Usually my life centers around therapy all week long. However, for two hours each week I have the opportunity to apply myself to my work skills and also socialize with the nicest people.” A volunteer with mental illness

Training Brooklyn Public Library Staff Other Agencies

Many Readers and Many Ways to Read

Questions?

Carrie BanksBrooklyn Public Library2065 Flatbush AvenueBrooklyn, NY 11234

c.banks@brooklynpubliclibrary.org