Panel of Library Experts Share Strategies for Serving Patrons with ASD

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Lesley Farmer, Ph.D., author of Library Services for Youth With Autism Spectrum Disorders, ALA, 2013, and professor, California State University, Long Beach, College of Education.

Barbara Klipper has been training librarians on autism since 2006. She started the grant-funded Sensory Storytime program at The Ferguson Library in Stamford, CT in 2009. Barbara is the author of Programming for Children and Teens with Autism Spectrum Disorder, ALA, 2014.  Barbara welcomes your questions.  She can be reached at: barbara@klipper.us

Dan Weiss, Director of Fanwood Public Library, co-developer of Libraries and Autism: We’re Connected, which began in 2008 with the support of IMLS grant funds, is a virtual campaign designed to make patrons with ASD more comfortable and successful in their interactions with libraries.

 Presentation  on Serving Library Patrons on the Spectrum

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