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All Contra Costa County Library locations have the following:

• Large Screen Monitors
• Large Print Keyboard
  
• Trackball Mouse
  
  
• 20/20 Pen
• Signature Guide
• 3x Handheld Magnifier
• Headphones/Covers
  
  
• ZoomText 
• NVDA Text-to-Speech
  
• T-Bar (Color Preferences and Screen Masking Ruler)

For Tipsheets - See box below

   Closed Captioned Televisions (CCTVs)  

Read, write, or engage in your favorite hobby

 Topaz by Freedom Scientific - 22 inch screen desktop video magnifier

• Walnut Creek Library--located on the 2nd floor near the library’s magazines, newspapers, and reference books. (Gift from the Walnut Creek Lions Clubs)

• Lafayette Library and Learning Center--located near the adult magazines and newspapers. (Gift from the The Friends of the Lafayette Library and Learning Center)

Merlin - 24 inch screen LCD desktop video magnifier

• Antioch, Hercules, and Clayton community libraries. 

Optelec Spectrum - 20 inch monitor that magnifies up to 70x.

• El Cerrito, Orinda, and Moraga community libraries. 

Kurzweil software is coming soon to Antioch and Pleasant Hill community libraries.

Rollators are available at the Brentwood, Concord, Hercules, Lafayette, and San Ramon community libraries.

Project Second Chance: The Library's Adult Literacy Program, Serving Adults with Reading Disabilities

Paws to Read: Reading Therapy Dogs at the 

Clayton, Danville, Lafayette, Orinda, Walnut Creek, community libraries

• WorkAbility I placements countywide (students in Contra Costa County)
• ALIVE volunteers at the Antioch Library; Futures Explored
• Volunteers at the Lafayette Library (adults with disabilities)
• Book clubs held at local senior centers (contact San Ramon Library and Brentwood Library)
• Wednesday Club, Antioch Library (scheduled with ARC Inroads--a community-based program for adults with developmental disabilities) monthly programs, volunteer opportunities, Wii gaming

The Antioch, San Ramon, and Lafayette community libraries are using pictograms to help library users, including those with learning differences, those for whom English is not their native language, and those who are adult learners, navigate the Dewey Decimal System.

The pictograms are excellent examples of universal access. Read more about pictograms here.

Early Literacy Stations are located at the following community libraries:

• Antioch -  2 stations (includes bilingual Spanish edition)
• Danville -  2 stations
• Dougherty Station - 1 station
• Moraga -  2 stations
• Pittsburg - 1 station (includes bilingual Spanish edition)
• Prewett -  2 stations (includes bilingual Spanish edition)
• San Ramon - 1 station

Each station has educational programs installed that help students 2-10 years old; preschool, kindergarten, and elementary levels to work on targeted skills such as reading, writing, math, or keyboarding. The stations come with a colorful keyboard and child-sized mouse and are not connected to the Internet.