Girl Scout To Host Open House for Gold Award Project
ONEONTA—Isabel Griswold from Girl Scout Troop 30043 will hold an open house to celebrate the launch of the Oneonta World of Learning Book Nook on Saturday, February 1 from 10 a.m. to noon. The event will feature a variety of craft and reading activities, door prizes, and cake. OWL, a museum and hands-on exploratory space dedicated to learning through play, is located at 167 Young Road in Oneonta's Fortin Park.
Griswold’s Gold Award project is titled “Reaching Neurodiverse Children Through Reading.” According to a media release, she completed research to understand the issues facing neurodiverse children as they develop reading skills, and interviewed a variety of local experts—including Huntington Memorial Children’s Librarian Donna Foote, Head Start teacher Colleen McGovern, SUNY Oneonta Librarian Sarah Rhodes and others—to gain a better understanding of how to create a book nook that would appeal to a variety of neurodiverse children.
