About Us
We are a voluntary organisation, proudly serving our community since 1977.
Services
Specialist Toys
The Special Needs Library has a wide range of over 3,000 educational and therapeutic toys and equipment available for hire. Toys are sourced locally, nationally and overseas.
Toys are organised into categories, according to the particular skills that they are designed to develop or the needs they can help address.
Categories include:
- Early Skills
- Reward Sight/Sound
- Manipulation
- Matching
- Sorting
- Puzzles
- Music/Sound
- Language Development
- Alphabet
- Phonics
- Maths
- Graphic Skills
- Self-Help Skills
- Dress Ups
- Playsets
- Construction Sets
- CD-Roms
- DVDs and Videos
- Ride Ons
- Gross Body Movement
- Restricted Use
Educational Play Advisor
The Educational Play Advisor can assist you in the Library to offer advice on suitable therapeutic, recreational and educational toys and equipment.
Under certain circumstances, the Educational Play Advisor can visit clients in their own home. This service is offered at no extra cost to the client.
Who Uses the Special Needs Library?
We welcome children and adults with short or long term special needs; their families, teachers and therapists, groups and schools; or anyone with an interest in special needs.
Funding
The Library is a not-for-profit organisation operating from its own premises.
The Library relies solely on solicited grants and donations, supplemented with our own fundraising activities, an annual subscription for membership and the hire charges for items loaned.
