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 Bame Collins

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