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The Child’s Place for Children with Special Needs and Kidsmobile
Library Service with a Difference
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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.
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Children Come to the Library
Our Garden ClubAfter School Stories
Read and Play
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Many Ways to Learn… Words Math Movement Social
Thinking and Feeling
Art Music Nature
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… 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
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The Library Goes to Children Schools Hospitals Foster Care Homeless Shelters Juvenile Detention Kidsmobile
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Services to Schools
Class Visits at the Library Class Visits at the School Workshops for Parents, Teachers and other
Professionals
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Hospital Storytelling We read to children
in clinics and hospitals
We give them books to keep and library cards
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Library Service on the Move
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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
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Workshops
Helping Children with Disabilities Learn to Read
Autism Assistive Technology Behavior Management Getting Jobs for People
with Intellectual Disabilities
Many others
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VolunteersOver 20 volunteers with and
without disabilities Reading Troubadours go to
clinics Office and program volunteers
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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
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Many Readers and Many Ways to Read
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Questions?
Carrie BanksBrooklyn Public Library2065 Flatbush AvenueBrooklyn, NY 11234