Thursday, June 15, 2023

Free Autism-Ready Libraries Toolkit

 See the following article and other opportunities in this ALSC blog post, May 24, 2023.


In March 2020, ALSC provided a letter to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in support of a University of Washington Information School (iSchool) project, Autism-Ready Libraries. The project, subsequently funded by IMLS, aimed to improve libraries’ capacity to provide early literacy programming to autistic children and their families.

As a result of preliminary studies and investigation, iSchool researchers developed the Autism-Ready Libraries Toolkit (ARLT), which is now available online. The toolkit includes early literacy programming and training materials to empower librarians to effectively serve autistic children and their families.

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