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Materials for Kids

The Kids’ Library offers materials and tools for kids with special needs.
  • Adaptive Toys
  • Children’s large print books (located at the end of the fiction section)
  • Videos and DVDs that are closed captioned
  • Signed English picture books (located at the end of the fiction section)
  • Braille picture books (located at the end of the fiction section)
  • Children’s Books about Special Needs
  • Books for Caregivers of Children with Special Needs
  • CD-ROMs
    • Boardmaker (available for checkout and on library computer K21)
      Database of 3,500+ picture communication symbols used to make printed communication boards, device overlays, worksheets, schedules, calendars, etc.
    • My House: Language Activities of Daily Living
      A talking program designed to help communicatively low-functioning children and adults. Four different activities designed to increase understanding of objects and their descriptions.
    • First Categories
      Allows students to place 60 nouns into 6 categories: animals, body parts, clothes, foods, utensils, and vehicles.
    • Earobics
      Systematically focuses a child's attention on the sounds of words and teaches the full range of auditory processing and phonological awareness skills critical for reading success.
  • Websites
  • Last Modified: 1/14/2006 jm
     
    Elmhurst Public Library - 125 S. Prospect Avenue - Elmhurst, IL 60126 (Get Directions)
    ph: 630-279-8696 - fax: 630-279-0636 - tty: 630-783-4310
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