Educational & Training Opportunities and Websites

The following webinars and resources provide training in everything from welcoming people with disabilities into the library to creating specialized programs for such patrons.

• ALSC: Serving Children with Disabilities in Libraries: A Beginner’s Guide
• ASCLA: Library Accessibility–What You Need to Know
• 5 Tips for Using Wordless Books with Kids with Special Needs
• Guiding Special Needs Families: What Children’s Librarians Can Do
• Improving Library Services to People with Disabilities
• Inclusive Information Access: Assistive Technology in Action
• Libraries and Autism
  • Links to training resources
  • Signs in English/Spanish/American Sign Language
  • Links to library programs currently in place
• Libraries Serving Children with Autism blog
• Power Card Strategy YouTube demonstration
• Project Enable (Expanding Nondiscriminatory Access by Librarians Everywhere)
• Rated E for Everyone: Expanding Services to Children with Special Needs
• Sensory Storytime: Preschool Programming that Makes Sense for Kids with Autism (ALSC Archived Webinar)
• Sensory Storytime Handouts from ALAConnect
• Sensory Storytime How-To Guide
• Sensory Storytime Tips from the Akron Summit Library
• Serving the Underserved: Children with Disabilities at Your Library
• SNAILS Sensory Storytime Presentation
• Social Thinking Conferences
  • Workshops in teaching socially appropriate behaviors
• Special Needs and Inclusive Library Services (SNAILS)
  • Blog related to special needs youth patrons
• Targeting Autism: Helping Libraries Support the Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) Community
• Tech on the Spec(trum): Making Libraries More Accessible for Children with Special Needs webinar
• Tech on the Spec(trum): Making Libraries More Accessible for Children with Special Needs Resources
• UpNext Blog article “Public Library Excels at Serving Children with Autism“
• Welcoming Children with Disabilities at Your Library
• What’s After Storytime: Programming for Children and Tweens with Autism (ALSC Archived Webinar)