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Youth Services Critical Conversations Club (YS3C)

Information about and collected resources from the Washington State Library's Youth Services Critical Conversations Club.

Youth Services Critical Conversations Club



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Supported by funding provided by the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.

Autism-Ready Libraries

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Thursday, May 12th: 10:00-11:00 a.m.: 
Autism-Ready Libraries
Presenters: Autism-Ready Libraries Project Team
Autism-Ready Libraries is a research project led by the University of Washington Information School to build public libraries' capacity to provide early literacy programs, resources, and services for autistic children and their families in the public library. Autism-Ready Libraries is funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Our main focus is on supporting youth-services staff to serve the early literacy needs of this population. To do this we are developing an Autism-Ready Libraries Toolkit (ARLT). Once fully developed, this toolkit will include training, tools, and a variety of resources to empower library youth services providers to serve autistic children and their family’s early literacy needs!

Join us to hear more about the research that is informing our ARLT, and for a first look at our initial findings: including barriers that keep families with autistic children out of libraries, and best practices these families have identified to support their library use!