Nothing About Them Without Them

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Nothing About Them Without Them!

• Finding and Serving
• People with Disabilities
• in Your Library

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Who are we talking about?

• In a Census Bureau Survey of Income and
  Participation (conducted June September, 2002)
• 51.2 million people in the non-institutionalized
  population had some level of disability
• 18.1 of the population
• 8.4 of people under age 15
• 19.4 of people aged 45 54
• 38.4 of people aged 65 69
• 71.7 of people aged 80
• People of all ages, in all racial and ethnic
  groups and all socioeconomic groups have
  disabilities.

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Potential Users with Disabilities

• People who are blind or have vision disabilities
• People who have learning differences
• People who are Deaf or deaf or hard of hearing
• People who have speech disabilities

• People who have psychiatric disabilities
• People who have mobility or dexterity
  disabilities
• People who have developmental disabilities
• People who have disabilities as a result of the
  aging process

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How can we find them?

• Yellow Pages
• Blind Vision Impaired Services
• Disabled Persons Access Services
• Mental Health Services
• Mental Retardation Developmentally Disabled
  Services
• Rehabilitation Services
• Etc.
• Social Services Agency Directories
• Public Schools Community Colleges
• Internet
• www.infopeople.org
• Beyond Ramps Library Accessibility in the Real
  World

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How can all these people help?

• Other service providers can help us learn about
  their clients / our potential users.
• Focus groups give us an opportunity to inform
  consumers, their families and other professionals
  about what we have to offer and to learn more
  about accommodations they need to be able to use
  our services.
• Advisory groups help us keep moving forward.
• Planning
• Staff training
• Promotion of our accessibility services

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Thank you!

• For more information
• Visit www.infopeole.org for a list of
• bookmarks to organizations and databases
• tips for providing services
• and more!
• Contact me
• Marti Goddard mgoddard_at_sfpl.org