CIL Benefits are Long-Lasting
“The Girl Talk Book Club” is a group of eight women with disabilities. As they graduated from school, they had to work hard to fill their lives with social activities, hobbies, sports and employment. And reading for pleasure was a struggle without the supports they had in school.
So LVCIL Board member LeeAnne Fura and her daughter Audrey decided to start a book club with Audrey’s friends. To accommodate the groups varying reading abilities, LeeAnne reads aloud while the members follow along with their copies. Each take turns providing a meal, celebrate each other’s birthdays and support one another through difficult times.
The book club now meet twice a month, with one member continuing to participate through zoom after she moved out of state.
All the girls have been a part of LVCIL’s social groups, like Adaptations and S2L (School to Life). These programs are designed to help young adults with any kind of disability live as independently as they want, especially when the time comes where they no longer need or get support.
“The Girl Talk Book Club” is just one sign of the program’s success.
Reading list (So far)
A Wrinkle in Time
Matilda
Anne of Green Gables
The Hobbit
Pride and Prejudice
The Bridge to Tarabithia
The Lion, The Witch, and the
Wardrobe
Jackie Robinson
The Book Thief
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
The Wizard of Oz
Johnny Tremain
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
And more …
