Upcoming Library Hours

You can schedule an appointment for a weekday visit!

Upcoming Saturday Hours
• May 03, 2008 12-4:30 pm
• May 10, 2008 12-4:30 pm
• Jun 07, 2008 12-4:30 pm
• Jun 21, 2008 12-4:30 pm

Body Sox: It may just be that only those in the "sensory integration therapy world" know about the awesome benefits of these lycra sensory delights. They are pretty strange looking, but very therapeutic! The see-through lycra/spandex "body sock" is a movement, proprioceptive, tactile, and deep pressure experience like no other. Perhaps you are wondering what to do with this "odd" looking thing. Oh, that's easy... just climb in, zip it up, and watch your body make shapes you never thought possible (among other uses). Because Body Sox are see-through (and breathable by the way), you can have the child do a variety of things with the Body Sox. Besides being FUN, Body Sox sparks creativity and imagination while providing therapeutic benefits. Body Sox will help children with sensory processing disorders to work on "position in space" skills. They must kinesthetically feel what their bodies are doing and how they are coordinating their body movements. Watching themselves in a mirror, or creating shadows, will help them develop this proprioceptive sense, which is often dysfunctional in children with sensory integration dysfunction / sensory processing disorders . The unique proprioceptive and tactile input children (or adults) experience with the Body Sox is unparalleled! Any child with sensory processing disorders / sensory integration dysfunction can benefit!

In 2001, Dr. Baker wrote The Social Skills Picture Book, designed for young children with social communication challenges. Now, in response to the deluge of requests from parents with children in their teens, here is Dr. Baker's long-awaited book, specifically geared toward older students. The Social Skills Picture Book for High School and Beyond offers a visual learning format. Photos of actual students engaging in a wide variety of social situations show, rather than tell, the right (and wrong) ways to interact in different circumstances. They visually illustrate the positive and negative consequences of both ways of interacting. The book also offers instructions for students & families to create their own social skills booklets. The social skills address real-life situations that are important to teens, such as: making new friends, asking someone out on a date, doing difficult schoolwork, interviewing for a job, and much, much more!

Introducing the one, the only, the inimitable NEIL SANDERS. Neil is a man for both TV and Radio, and can tell you virtually anything about both. That's his passion. So it only made sense to give the guy a chance to broadcast all of his bits and brain-bytes out to the world. Be sure to check out the Neil Sanders Show on this site. Neil will be recording every Monday. Trust us, you won't find a more off-beat and colorful man of the hour. See you on Monday.

ASI's drum group, No Words Spoken performed at local schools and in the community throughout April, 2007 as part of Autism Awareness Month. For more information or to schedule a performance, contact Veronica Federiconi at 631-5777 x 318.