Stories for All: Reaching Young Children Through Adapted Books and Adapt to Impact

Join us to discover how libraries can create reading experiences for young readers of all abilities by using creative strategies to adapt books that can reach young children with delays and disabilities. We’ll demonstrate small adaptations that can make a big impact, and we’ll tell you about Adapt to Impact. Offered by the Center for Innovative Design and Engineering at CU Denver, Adapt to Impact works with licensed childcare programs throughout Colorado to learn about tools and strategies to better support children with disabilities in their programs in all areas of development. Provided at no cost to childcare programs, Adapt to Impact partners with Colorado’s libraries to distribute adaptive equipment loans for childcare programs to trial in all areas of the state. You’ll leave this presentation with a collection of resources, ideas, tips, and tricks that you can use right away!

Presenter Biography:

Christa LeGray, MS, CCC-SLP, is a bilingual Speech-Language Pathologist who is an Assistive Technology (AT) Specialist at the Center for Innovative Design and Engineering (CIDE) at CU Denver, where she coordinates the Tech for Tykes program and is on the Adapt to Impact team. She has worked in Early Intervention, subacute care, home health, and the public schools, extending her career across the lifespan.

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