School Libraries Supporting Students with Hidden Needs and Talents

Together, librarians and specialists can create experiences to reach all learners in their buildings, including those with hidden needs and talents.
While school librarians are experts at collaborating with classroom teachers, too often they overlook the specialists in their buildings as key collaborative partners.
Focusing on the many specialists who work with students, Karla Bame Collins provides information about their roles and responsibilities and discusses how school librarians can collaborate to improve learning for all students, including those with hidden needs, disabilities, and talents that are not easily detected and may go undiagnosed. Because librarians work with every student, but may not always be informed about each student's particular needs, it's important for them to know whom in the school to turn to for information. Librarians will gain ideas for working with students to provide the best possible learning environment for each.
This practical book looks at the whole school library environment-collection, instruction, space, and programming-and offers many ideas for librarians to collaborate with other educators and specialists for the good of all students.

Karla Collins is a Professor in the school librarianship program at Longwood University. She has been a school librarian at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Collins has a bachelor's degree in early childhood education with a minor in library science, a master's degree in elementary teaching, and a PhD in curriculum and instruction. In 2019, she was named Virginia School Library Educator of the Year by the Virginia Association of School Librarians. She has written many articles for practitioner and research journals and regularly presents at state, national, and international conferences.

Introduction
1 Collaboration and Interprofessional Practice
What Is Collaboration?
Levels of Collaboration
Interprofessional Teams
Bibliography
2 Addressing Learners' Hidden Needs and Talents through Universal Design for Learning
Hidden Needs and Talents
Universal Design for Learning
Bibliography
3 Collaborative Lesson Planning for the School Librarian
Lesson Design
Putting It into Practice
Bibliography
4 Designing your Library Space and Program for All
Physical Library Space
Virtual Library Space
Bibliography
5 School Specialists as Collaborative Partners
Introduction
Breaking Barriers
Who Are the "Specialists" in a School?
Specialists Who Work with Specific Students
English as a Second Language (ESL) Teacher/Teacher of English Language Learners (ELL)
Gifted Resource Teacher
Reading Specialist
Special Education Teacher
Speech Language Pathologist
School Counselor
Specialists Who Focus on a Topic/Subject
Career and Technical Educator
Curriculum Specialist
Fine Arts
Health and Physical Education (HPE)
Other Essential School Community Members
Acknowledgments and Thanks
Bibliography
Professional Associations
6 Hidden Needs and Talents--A Guidebook
Models of Disability
Hidden Needs and Talents
Neurodiversity and Neurodivergent
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Dyslexia
Sensory Processing and Integration
Color Vision Deficiency
Giftedness
Food Sensitivities--Allergy and Intolerance
Mental Health Concerns
Trauma
Poverty/Housing and/or Food Insecure
Are These "Hidden" Needs and Talents?
Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Vision Impairment and Blindness
Chronic (or Long-term) Physical Illness or Condition
Asthma
Autoimmune Disease
Cancer
Diabetes (Type 1 and Type 2)
Epilepsy/Seizure disorder
Lyme Disease
Migraine/Chronic Headaches
Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS) and Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcal Infections (PANDAS)
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
Bibliography
7 Final Thoughts
Bonus Library Lessons
Finding the Story Around Us
Wrap It Up
Bibliography
Index