{"id":96284,"date":"2025-12-16T04:45:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T04:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/96284\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T04:45:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T04:45:23","slug":"shafter-library-expands-inclusive-reading-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/96284\/","title":{"rendered":"Shafter Library Expands Inclusive Reading Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, December 15, 2025<\/p>\n<p>In June 2025, reference librarian and Shafter Library liaison Ariel Dyer attended<br \/>\n                        the American Library Association\u2019s annual conference in Philadelphia. There, she met<br \/>\n                        several unique book vendors: \u00a1Chau, Luna!, a Spanish children\u2019s book vendor, and Dyslexic<br \/>\n                        Books, a company that prints books for children in a dyslexic-friendly font.<\/p>\n<p>In ordering titles from Dyslexic Books, Dyer prioritized books geared towards third-grade<br \/>\n                        boys. Of those who are diagnosed with dyslexia, 60% are male, and an estimated 70-80%<br \/>\n                        of those with limited reading proficiency have dyslexia. Dyslexia is commonly diagnosed<br \/>\n                        in elementary school, and a lack of third-grade reading proficiency has a strong correlation<br \/>\n                        to failing to graduate high school. The addition of these books is a small step to<br \/>\n                        making the Shafter Library more welcoming and inclusive to readers with dyslexia.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, after adding picture and board books with Braille tape last spring,<br \/>\n                        the library now proudly has available for checkout 10 fully Braille chapter books<br \/>\n                        due to a patron request.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the Shafter Library soon and explore all the possibilities we have to offer!<\/p>\n<p>                              <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/shafter-library-news-item-Dec2025-SQ1.jpg\" alt=\"several new books on display at the Shafter library\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/shafter-library-news-item-Dec2025-SQ2.jpg\" alt=\"Spanish language books on display at the Shafter library\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, December 15, 2025 In June 2025, reference librarian and Shafter Library liaison Ariel Dyer attended the American&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-96284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}