Articles Focusing on Library Services for Patrons with Disabilities

The following articles discuss providing services to patrons, mainly youth patrons, with special needs. The titles in italics are not freely available on the Internet. The articles from Children & Libraries, Winter 2007 can be requested from ALSC.

• All Kids of Flowers Grow Here: The Child’s Place for Children with Special Needs at Brooklyn Public Library. by Carrie Banks. Children and Libraries. (April, 2004).
• Bridging the Gap: Making Libraries More Accessible for a Diverse Autistic Population. by Lauren Barack. SLJ. (July, 2014).
• Make It Universal. by Sarah Bayliss. SLJ (October, 2015).
• Where is it? ¿Dónde está? Spanish Language Resources about Children with Special Needs. Children and Libraries. (Winter, 2007).
• Small Steps, Big Results: Preparing a Storytime for Children with Special Needs. by Antoinette D’Orazio. Children and Libraries. (Winter, 2007).
• The Autism Spectrum | Books for Kids, Parents, and Teachers. Alicia Eames. SLJ. (February, 2013).
• Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Using New Media with Children, Birth through School-age by Anne Hicks. Young Children, New Media, and Libraries.
• Is Your Early Childhood Literature Collection Disabilities-Inclusive and Current? by Crystal E. Kaiser. Children and Libraries. (Winter, 2007).
• Beyond Barriers: Creating Storytimes for Families of Children with ASD by Anne Leon. Children and Libraries. (Winter, 2011).
• School Librarians as Ambassadors of Inclusive Information Access for Students with Disabilities by Mega Subramaniam, Rebecca Oxley, & Christie Kodama. School Library Research. Vol 16. (2013).
• Making the Wheel Bigger: Programming for Teens with Special Needs. by Katie Mitchell. VOYA. (October, 2012).
• Almost Adult, with Autism by Carly Okyle. SLJ. (November, 2015).
• CO Library Pilots a Robotics Program that Helps Kids with Autism. by Carly Okyle. SLJ. (January, 2015).
• Program Diversity: Do Libraries Serve Kids with Disabilities? by Carly Okyle. SLJ. (May, 2014).
• Try Something New by Angela Reynolds. ALSC blog. (November, 2015).
• How to Use IPads to Help Teens With Autism by Carrie Rogers-Whitehead. SLJ. (October, 2015).
• Free New Game Apps Support Children with Autism. SLJ. (April, 2014).
• Q&A: YA Author with Autism Talks to SLJ About “Autism on the Page” Event. by Carolyn Sun. SLJ (March, 2015).
• The Building Bridges Project: Library Services to Youth with Disabilities. by Lisa Wemett. Children and Libraries. (Winter, 2007).
• Rated E for Everyone: Expanding Services to Children with Special Needs. by Peggy Wong and Allen McGinley. SLJ. (December, 2010). This article is available through the Kansas State Library EBSCO Host database: Education Abstracts (H.W. Wilson).
• Sensory Storytime for Special Needs Adults, Urban Library Council