Library Services to People with Special Needs (LSN) with Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities (LPD)

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Conference Session 131

Dyslexia? Welcome to our library! Raising awareness of dyslexia and introducing the new publication “Guidelines for Library Services to Persons with Dyslexia“ published by IFLA/LSN in Collaboration with IFLA/LPD

19 August 2014 11:45 - 13:45 | Room: Forum 2

Introduction
VERONICA L C STEVENSON-MOUDAMANE (Chair of IFLA/LSN)
What is new about dyslexia and the European Dyslexia Association
ANNE‐MARIE MONTARNAL (European Dyslexia Association, St Gilda de Rhuys. France)
Discover the renewed and enlarged guidelines for Library Services to Persons with Dyslexia!
SASKIA BOETS (Luisterpuntbibliotheek, Flemish library for audio books and braille books, Brussels, Belgium) and HELLE MORTENSEN (Lyngby Public Library, Lyngby, Denmark)
Public Library Serving People with Dyslexia - A Swedish example
HEIDI CARLSSON‐ASPLUND (Lerum Public Library, Lerum, Sweden)
“But they don't look like they have a disability.” Serving People with Dyslexia - Best Practices from the United States
NANCY BOLT (Nancy Bolt & Associates, Denver, Colorado, United States)
Dyslexia and Library Programmes for Motivation to Read in Croatia
DUNJA MARIJA GABRIEL (Croatian Institute for Librarianship, National and University Library in Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia) and MIRJANA LENCEK (Department of Speech and Language Pathology, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences in Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia) and LJILJANA SABLJAK (City Library of Zagreb, Zagreb City Libraries, Zagreb, Croatia)

Last update: 17 July 2014