Here is more about adaptive technology and the I CAN! center services at the library.
Sunday, March 6, 2016
San Diego Library's I CAN! Assistive Technology Room ("Assistive Technology and Libraries")
In going to the new San Diego Central Library yesterday for the LT department field trip, I noticed that they have what they call the I CAN! room. It focuses on aiding those with disabilities to be able to use all of the resources available to them at the library. Within this space are dedicated technologies, programs, resources and staff with specialty expertise. It includes sixteen "assistive technology work stations, audiobooks, closed circuit video magnifiers, and the Ubi-Duo visual communicator." After consideration, they also intend to open up a youth chapter of the I CAN studio in the children's department filled with specially designed toys and learning instruments for children with disabilities. It is a wonderful and thoughtful addition to the technology housed within the San Diego Library.
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It was great to visit the downtown library and see these services being utilized by many. It's easy to imagine how these users often feel unnoticed, as if they are not included in many areas of modern life, because society is not set up for them to succeed and labels them as having disabilities, disorders, disease and more. So having a space in the building really lets these users know that there are people willing to help them. They don't have to ask or feel like a burden inside the space's safe zone, which is why these centers and the people with in them need to be recognized and instituted through out the SD county. I hope more libraries today incorporate such zones because they are necessary for not just the disabled, but for others who can learn a lot from the compassion with in such a space.
ReplyDeleteI was very happy to see the I-CAN room, too. Seeing the access and the adaptive technology available makes me optimistic about the empowerment of people.
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