BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID://NEOL//400681 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260405T141110 VTIMEZONE:America/New_York DTSTART:20250204T190000Z DTEND:20250204T203000Z UID:400681 SUMMARY:Success in Programming for Adults with Developmental Disabilities (DD) LOCATION:Online via Zoom DESCRIPTION:Success in Programming for Adults with Developmental Disabilities (DD)\n\n02/04/25 02:00 PM EST\n - 02/04/25 03:30 PM EST\Description:\nRecorded 2/4/25\n\nOffering programs for a subset of adults with DD is a great start, but it’s time to reach out to neurodiverse patrons in an evidence based, more holistic, and systemic way.\nIn this webinar, the authors of Library Programming for Adults with Developmental Disabilities will lead a discussion on:\n\n How to identify and overcome barriers to inclusive programming\n How to create a library-wide culture of inclusion\n How to design and implement fun and exciting programs that work for patrons both with and without disabilities, and more.\n\nYou’ll leave the session informed, inspired, and empowered to begin or grow your own successful programming!\n\nLearning Objectives:\n\n\n Participants will be able to list three techniques they can use to make their adult programs more inclusive and accessible.\n Participants will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the various stakeholders in successful programming and at least two ways they can involve self-advocates and community partners.\n Participants will be able to identify at least three program models and how they can bring these to their own libraries.\n\nPresenters:\n\nBarbara Klipper is a retired public librarian who has been an advocate for people with developmental disabilities in libraries since the early 2000s. She is the author or Programming for Children and Teens with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ALA, 2014), and co-author with Carrie Banks of several book chapters as well as Library Programming for Adults with Developmental Disabilities (ALA, 2021). She created the “Autism Welcome Here: Library Programs, Services, and More grant, which funded innovative programs and services over a five-year period.\n \n\n\nCarrie Banks runs Brooklyn Public Library’s services to children and teens with disabilities, Inclusive Services. Inclusive Services serves youth throughout Brooklyn in libraries, schools, hospitals, transitional housing facilities, group homes and detention centers. She taught Including Youth with Disabilities at Pratt Institute. Active in ALA since 2000, she was ASGCLA’s President in 2020 and part of ALA President Loida Garcia-Febo’s EDI Presidential Team. Publications include revising Including Families of Children with Special Needs: A How to Do It Manual for Librarians, Libraries and Garden: Growing Together, with Cynthia Mediavilla, and Library Programming for Adults with Developmental Disabilities, with Barbara Klipper. She is currently working on a book on libraries disrupting the school to prison pipeline.\n \Location:\nOnline via Zoom\n\n, X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Success in Programming for Adults with Developmental Disabilities (DD)

02/04/25 02:00 PM EST - 02/04/25 03:30 PM EST
Description:
Recorded 2/4/25

Offering programs for a subset of adults with DD is a great start, but it’s time to reach out to neurodiverse patrons in an evidence based, more holistic, and systemic way.
In this webinar, the authors of Library Programming for Adults with Developmental Disabilities will lead a discussion on: You’ll leave the session informed, inspired, and empowered to begin or grow your own successful programming!

Learning Objectives: Presenters:

Barbara Klipper is a retired public librarian who has been an advocate for people with developmental disabilities in libraries since the early 2000s. She is the author or Programming for Children and Teens with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ALA, 2014), and co-author with Carrie Banks of several book chapters as well as Library Programming for Adults with Developmental Disabilities (ALA, 2021). She created the “Autism Welcome Here: Library Programs, Services, and More grant, which funded innovative programs and services over a five-year period.
 


Carrie Banks runs Brooklyn Public Library’s services to children and teens with disabilities, Inclusive Services. Inclusive Services serves youth throughout Brooklyn in libraries, schools, hospitals, transitional housing facilities, group homes and detention centers. She taught Including Youth with Disabilities at Pratt Institute. Active in ALA since 2000, she was ASGCLA’s President in 2020 and part of ALA President Loida Garcia-Febo’s EDI Presidential Team. Publications include revising Including Families of Children with Special Needs: A How to Do It Manual for Librarians, Libraries and Garden: Growing Together, with Cynthia Mediavilla, and Library Programming for Adults with Developmental Disabilities, with Barbara Klipper. She is currently working on a book on libraries disrupting the school to prison pipeline.
 
Location:
Online via Zoom

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