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Library Programming for Adults with Developmental Disabilities (Paperback)
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Library Programming for Adults with Developmental Disabilities (Paperback)
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Programming staff, library administrators, and LIS instructors will
find this an easy-to-read handbook for understanding the needs of
adults with developmental disabilities and the principles that
undergird the best practices the authors describe. Public libraries
everywhere have embraced inclusion and expanded their programming
for youth with disabilities, especially autism. It's imperative
that libraries also offer rich and age-appropriate initiatives for
adults with developmental disabilities; after all, as youth now
served by their libraries grow up and reach adulthood, they will
continue to want and expect libraries to be responsive to their
needs. Klipper and Banks, two librarians with a long-standing focus
on inclusivity, combine research-based theory and an introduction
to best practices with details on how to replicate field-tested
programs for adults with developmental disabilities (DD). Readers
will learn key ideas about DD, such as an examination and debunking
of commonly held stereotypes and misconceptions about people with
DD and the role ableism plays in perpetuating them; be introduced
to self-advocates and their ways of viewing DD, including
terminology and the Neurodiversity movement; get pointers on how to
create a culture of inclusion at the library, with discussions of
Universal Design and UDL, staff training, and anticipating the
unexpected; explore the needs of adults with DD who are also LGBTQA
, people of color, immigrants and English language learners,
seniors, those with dual diagnoses, and other aspects of
intersectionality in library programming; understand how to build
on and modify existing children's and YA practice to ensure that
library users with DD receive age-appropriate and respectful
library service; learn how to make virtual programming accessible
and which programs can be successfully brought online; discover a
myriad of programs ready to adapt for their own libraries, such as
Sensory Storytime for adults, book clubs, arts and crafts programs,
adaptive gaming, job skills workshops, cooking programs, and many
more; see how programming for adults with DD works in academic
libraries; and gain skills for outreach and keeping current, with
guidance on forming and strengthening partnerships, advocacy,
fundraising, marketing, and additional resources for deepening
knowledge of DD.
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