Special Needs

Christmas came early to the Troy Public Library this year, in the form of a $2,300 donation from southeast Michigan businesswomen representing Meritor, Henry Ford Health Systems, GM and Inforum. These women are part of a leadership class that included a community service project.

This donation will enhance the Library’s Special Needs collection, and be used for materials and equipment for children with reading disabilities associated with visual impairments such as albinism, dyslexia, ADHD, traveling eye, an inability to see color, and more.

The Library will purchase large print materials, with emphasis on novels for ages 8-12; non-fiction books on visual impairments; and magnifiers to assist in reading. The Friends of the Troy Public Library have contributed an additional $300 towards this project, to purchase kits with special reading materials and magnifiers that children can use at home.

Join us for a special story time, at 11:15 am, on Saturday, January 21, to introduce the community to our new collection. This event is especially for children ages pre-school through 2nd grade. Afterw the event, there will be a demonstration on how to download ebooks to ereaders, and a tour of the enhanced Special Needs Collection.

Make a Splash at the Troy Public Library from June 14 through August 14 by reading books!

It is easy to collect prizes as you read your way through summer. Choose your Library books, read them, and enter them online in our online Summer Reading Program from either home or the Library. Record your books weekly and pick up a special prize in the Youth Services Department. Earn a new prize each week.

Children of all abilities 3 - 12 years of age are welcome to join the Program. Pre-readers (children whose books are read to them by family or friends) can also join the program and qualify for prizes. Children may use alternative formats such as audio books, Playaways, Braille books or electronic audio books.

Jane Alkon and Andy the Labrador Retriever Therapy Dog are visiting the Troy Library at 4 pm, on November 5, November 19, and December 10. Children who are reading and want to read to a dog are welcome. Jane encourages children to increase their reading skills in a wonderful, non-threatening, non-judgmental way.

You will be jumping when you join us at the Troy Library for music and fun, demonstrated by Margaret Matthes and Melissa Beyer of Margaret's Music Studio. There will be 15 minutes tastes of Kindermusik for children newborn to 18 months, 18  to 36 months, and 3 to 5 years of age.

Register online using our Youth Programs Calendar for the November 4 or 20 programs.