Assistant Professor
Old Dominion University, Virginia, United States
Amelia Anderson, PhD, is an assistant professor of library and information studies at Old Dominion University who has extensive experience on the topic of autism and libraries through her work as a public librarian, library researcher, and educator. She is the author of Library Programming for Autistic Children and Teens, published by ALA Editions. Amelia has worked to develop training for librarians to better understand and serve their users on the autism spectrum through two federally funded initiatives, Project PALS and Project A+. She is now the project director of the grant Accessibility in Making, which seeks to understand accessibility issues in public library makerspaces. Through original research and partnerships with autism self-advocates, she studies and shares best practices and trends at the intersection of neurodiversity, disability, and libraries and has presented her work at conferences from local to international audiences.