The Adaptive Living Collection at Brooks Free Library
The Adaptive Living Collection contains a variety of items that may be useful for a wide variety of people with various abilities such as low vision, dementia, hand dexterity, and hearing impairments. They circulate for 2 weeks with 2 renewals and can be put on hold. They must be picked up and dropped off at Brooks Free Library during open hours (they can not be returned in the bookdrop). They can all be found on the second floor of the library and staff at the Reference Desk are always available to help you find these items. Items in the Adaptive Living Collection can be found in the Clams catalog here
Adapted Games
Our adapted games are part of our Adaptive Living Collection. We have everything from card games to board games, some with large print and others with braille. All items in this collection have been selected by VITAL coordinator, Carla Burke.
Currently, we have:
- Bingo Low Vision/Braille set
- Cribbage with Adapted Board and playing cards
- Chess & Checkers set
- Dice with raised dots
- Dominoes with raised dots
- Left Center Right Low Vision/Braille game
- LEGO Braille bricks and board
- Monopoly Low Vision/Braille Edition
- Playing Cards, Low Vision and Braille sets
- Scrabble Low Vision Edition
- Sudoku Braille Edition
- UNO Low Vision/Braille card game
Adaptive Living Collection – household
This category contains 7 different types of clocks, a simple music player, and a talking dollar bill identifier
Adaptive Living Collection – dementia
This category of items contains 15 puzzles (35 and 63 pieces each), 4 Memory Lane books, sets of conversation cards, and Match the Chips and a Match the dots game.
Adaptive Living Collection – kitchen
A flour sifter and tactile timer can be found here.
Adaptive Living Collection – labeling/writing
Found here are low vision tools for creating and organizing such as stamps, writing guides, and bold writing markers and liquid tubes.