Board Game and Pizza Night for Tweens of All Abilities
Today's guest blog post was written by Paula Shapiro. Paula is currently a Youth Services Librarian at the Deerfield Public Library in Deerfield, Illinois. Thank you, Paula, for making this fantastic contribution to the SNAILS community! I always have loved working with tweens. I think they are interesting, funny, insightful and often trying to find a way to fit in. With that said, as most of us can attest, it can be tough to be a tween! There is not a lot of programming out there for tweens with special needs and I believe that this type of programming is important and beneficial to kids of all abilities. With the help of our wonderful teen librarian, Nina Michael, we started to plan our first program: Board Game and Pizza Night For Tweens of All Abilities. The vision was to have it be a buddy-type program where we paired up neuro-typical tweens with tweens with special needs. Here is the visual schedule (from Boardmaker ) that I ...