This document contains the following:

1. A Social Story to prepare you for your library trip2. Communication Placards3. Transition Card

Woodlands Regional Library, Level 410am - 9pm, daily

Social stories to prepare you for your library trip!

Caregivers are encouraged to visit the space during low peak periods on

Sundays to Thursdays 6 pm - 8 pm.

About Calm Down To The LibraryDesigned and equipped with sensory-friendly

learn areas, this autism-friendly space aims to promote inclusion of children with

autism into the library space.

About this social story bookletThis is a social story about visiting the Woodlands

Regional Library. Caregivers can use this to explain the social situations and what they might expect in

the library in order to increase structure and reduce anxiety for children with autism.

I am going to the library.

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This is the library entrance at level 1. I will enter through the gates and walk

past the video wall on my left.

Video wall

After entering the library, I will walk straight and turn left.

Look for the lift.

Information point:Here is where library visitors can

wait if they need help

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I will walk straight and take a lift to level 4.

At level 4, I will see a big tree. I will walk pass the tree and straight

to the exhibition.

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Welcome to “Calm Down to the Library”!

If I have a question, I can ask the friendly people in the library

wearing this badge.

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In the reading space, I can read books.

In the reading space, there are chairs of different

textures for me to sit on.

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There are padded floors for me to sit on.

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This is the entrance to the toilet.

I can borrow eight books and take them home for three weeks.

*For library members only. Please head down to any public librarywith your NRIC and your child’s birth certificate

for membership application. We highly recommend the registration to be done  before  your

child’s visit to Woodlands Regional Library.

When I’m done, I can bring the books back so that other children

can read them too!

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Going to the library is fun! I want to come again.

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Serving people with

Organised by

The Flying Elephant is a four-person volunteerteam passionate about inclusive learning in Singapore. Although coming from different walksof life, the members of The Flying Elephant joinedhands in SPD’s Youth Development Programme todevelop ‘Calm Down To The Library’ with the collective aim of providing equal access of learning opportunities to children with autism.

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The Flying Elephant