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The Role of Children's Books in Integrating Handicapped Children into Everyday Life
The Role of Children's Books in Integrating Handicapped Children into Everyday Life by Tordis Orjasaeter Unesco, 1981, 46p.
(Studies on Books and Reading No. 1)
Tordis Orjasater is a Norwegian literary critic, biographer, former professor of educational science, novelist and also the mother of a child with autism.
In 1985, Nina Askvig Reidarson launched the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Documentation Centre of Books for Disabled Young People in Norway.
The Centre was an extension of two international collaborative projects that had begun in the early 1980’s between IBBY and the Norwegian Institute for Special Education.
Both projects were under the direction of Tordis Orjasater.
The former IBBY Executive Director, Leena Maissen gave support to her.
This collaboration resulted in two UNESCO-sponsored leaflets about disabled children and reading called: “The Role of Children’s Books in Integrating Handicapped Children into Everyday Life” (1981) and “Books for Language-retarded Children” (1985).
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Reference:
Can Books Make a Difference? Heidi Cortner Boiesen IBBY Documentation Centre of Books for Disabled Young People
http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=1014
Charter for the Reader
International Book Committee and International Publishing Association, 1992
The International Publishers Association and the International Book Committee jointly adopted The Charter for the Reader in 1992.
The Charter for the Reader is quoted in "Guidelines for Library for Services to Persons with Dyslexia" and "Guidelines for easy-to-read materials" and "Guidelines for Library Services for Young Adults" by IFLA.