FINAL REPORT FOR THE CONTRACT IS AVAILABLE TO VIEW HERE.

 

 

INFOLINK Autism Project - NJ 

Welcoming Library Spaces for the Autism Community & Their Families   

Contract date: December 2008 - August 2009

   

The 2009 "Welcoming Library Spaces for the Autism Community and Their Families" contract is funded by INFOLINK, the Eastern New Jersey Regional Library Cooperative INFOLINK and its services are funded by the New Jersey State Library, which is responsible for the coordination, promotion and funding of the New Jersey Library Network.

 

• Shared resource page, thanks to the South Brunswick Public Library: http://www.sbpl.info/links/autismawareness.html. Please have your library link to this page. Email any other resources to Susanna if you would like to see them added to the page. 

• Our blog (formally used to share information) is available at http://librariesandautism.blogspot.com/.
• This wiki will be used to communicate and share information, just as we did with the blog!

 

 

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

            NJLA Spring Conference

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

3:30pm – 4:20pm

 

           Welcoming Library Programs for the Special Needs Community and Their Families.

 

 

Library personnel will learn how to develop and execute library programs that invite special needs children and typically developing children to participate together.  This program is an outgrowth of the INFOLINK initiative "Welcoming Library Spaces for the Autism Community and their families."  It is geared towards responding to the challenge of NJ residents whose children have been diagnosed on the autism spectrum and other high functioning children who are participating in inclusion programs in their public schools.

 

 

Carrie Banks, Supervisor, The Child's Place for Children with Special Needs/Kidsmobile, Brooklyn Public Library; Moderator: MaryEllen Firestone, East Brunswick Public Library

            Special Populations and Children's Services Section

 

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