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Boardman library hosts Sensory Story Time
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Neighbors | Tim Cleveland.Three tables at the Boardman library were full of various activities for children to do during the Sensory Story Time event.
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Neighbors | Tim Cleveland.Boardman library youth services librarian Allison Graf put several musical instruments on a table for children to play during the Sensory Story Time event.
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Neighbors | Tim Cleveland.A board had a list of all the activities the children would do during the Sensory Story Time event at the Boardman library.
By TIM CLEVELAND
The Sensory Story Time event that the Boardman library has been hosting monthly for more than a year is different from most story times.
The most recent Sensory Story Time on Sept. 27 featured several activities other than the usual reading of books.
“We are going to have a Sensory Story Time, which is a normal story time, except that there are some stations at the end with a sensory focus,” Boardman library youth services librarian Allison Graf said.
Graf said the stations were a music station, a craft station, a touch and feel station with different textures, some puzzles and one with books.
“We have an autumn theme today so there’s some fun fall books that we’ll read, including ‘Fall is Not Easy’ which is one of my favorites, and a nonfiction fall book, and one called ‘Fall Leaves Fall,’” she said.
Graf added that registration for the program is required.
“We want to understand that kids have different needs and this is one of those programs that everybody’s welcome to come to, and of course they’re welcome to come to all of them, but this one in particular one has a special sensory focus for kids with all abilities,” she said.
Graf said children who participate in the program will greatly benefit.
“Everything’s good about it,” she said. “Reading and socializing, literacy skills but also kind of the idea that everybody’s accepted here, everybody’s welcome.”