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| Bag Books - multi-sensory stories for people with learning disabilities |
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 Bag Books is the only organisation in the world publishing multi-sensory books specifically for people with learning disabilities. Each year we reach around 18,000 children and adults throughout the UK with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD), Severe Learning Disabilities (SLD) or severely affected by Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
Our main activities are:
- the design and production of a range of multi-sensory books. We currently have 35 titles covering a wide range of age-appropriate stories. In 2010 we supplied 956 books each taking an average of 8 hours to construct.
- providing specialist multi-sensory storytellers. During 2010, 4,061 people with learning disabilities took part in 584 of our storytelling sessions (that’s over three times as many people and over twice as many sessions as 2009).
- training others (parents, carers, librarians and teachers) in multi-sensory storytelling technique. In 2010, we trained 991 people, over twice as many as in 2009.
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 Radio 4 Appeal
Bag Books has been selected to benefit from a BBC Radio 4 Appeal. The appeal was hosted by former Paralympian and Bag Books supporter Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson. Tanni has previously attended a Bag Books multi-sensory storytelling session and even read one of our books to a group of children. She drew on this experience when talking about Bag Books and described pages from one of our newer books, The Fairground.
The appeal was first broadcast on Sunday 6th May but you can still listen to it at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. So far we have received 196 donations totalling £5,576.09 which is great but still short of our £10,000 target. With your help, we can exceed that target making this our most successful appeal yet. You can donate via the buttons and links at the top right of this web page.
As well as the official appeal, there is also an unscripted recording of Tanni speaking about why she supports Bag Books.
Many thanks to Tanni for hosting the appeal and for her continued support of our work.
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BatteryStation.co.uk donates one year's supply of batteries!
BatteryStation.co.uk is proud to support the work of Bag Books and to provide the batteries neccessary for production. We chose Duracell batteries to allow the books to last even longer. |
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