Reading wordless adult books in library and school groups

What is it about?

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the social and scientific rationale for book clubs, whose members read wordless books together, and give examples of storytelling with picture books in libraries and other community settings for young people and adults with intellectual disabilities and autism. Many readers who struggle with reading and comprehending words, find pictures much easier to understand and a focus on visual literacy encourages successful shared reading.. Book clubs support community inclusion, as for other people in society. The authors compare differences in the neuroscience of information and emotion processing between pictures and words.

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Why is it important?

The focus of this paper is to introduce a new idea that is proving very successful in practice and to demonstrate why empowering readers through sharing, discussing and understanding ideas and stories in pictures is both effective and of equivalent value to reading in words