Planning Guide for Professional Learning Community

We’ve heard from librarians and library staff about the value of learning from one another to further improve your own autism-inclusive practices and your library’s services and programs. With this desire in mind, we created a planning guide to help librarians begin and maintain their own peer learning communities. This guide is designed to help you plan and establish a Professional Learning Community at your library or library system. You can use this guide to plan sessions as you begin to establish a Professional Learning Community with library staff in your library or library system.

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Outreach and Promotion Guide

A guide to community outreach and advertisement of autism-inclusive early literacy services to families with autistic children. This guide provides advice for relationship building with community organizations and service providers in order to strengthen community connections and promote library services and programs for autistic children and their families.

This guide includes:

• • First steps for community outreach
  • Tips for promoting autism-inclusive services and programs

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Advocacy Resource

This guide was designed to support you in advocating for autism-inclusive early literacy services in your library or library system. This guide includes research-based information about the importance of autism-inclusive early literacy services, and step-by-step guidance for library professionals to advocate for autism-inclusive services.

This guide includes:

• • Background information on the early literacy needs of autistic children and their families
  • The importance of autism-inclusive early literacy services in libraries
  • An advocacy checklist with step-by-step guidance

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