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Ms. Doko's Classroom

  • PS 168X
  • Bronx, NY
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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  • Materials & Supplies for a Successful School Year

    Funded Oct 19, 2023

    Thank you so much for your generosity! Working with students with disabilities has always proven to be a challenge and I have always advocated to help them and their families. Your support in helping me fund this project makes me so excited and also brings tears to my eyes to know how supported I am by all of you in my career! Thank you again for your ongoing support!”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. Doko

  • Give Each Student a Voice

    Funded Feb 28, 2019

    Thank you so much for all of your support to help our students find their voice. Many of our students would not have had the opportunity to use a device such as the iPad to help facilitate communication. The circumstances they deal with do not allow them to have access to these devices. Our school and our community is not well funded and is in a high need area that requires supplemental support. With your help we have been able to provide them with the tools they need to prosper.

    After receiving the iPads and downloading communications apps such as Proloquo2go, LAMP words for life, and other apps, our non-verbal students were better able to engage in their day to day environment. We have seen tremendous progress with our non-verbal students communicating by choice making, turn taking, commenting, and requesting in the classroom, lunchroom, playground, and other school environments. We have also downloaded various educational apps for our verbal students to enhance all aspects of language and communication. The iPads occasionally serve as a reward for our students that require a behavioral intervention plan and keeps them motivated to continue working.

    All of our students have warmed to this new technology and adapted to it rather quickly. They are all eager to work when they see the iPads out on the table and this would not be possible without your help and support. Thank you so much for your kind and generous donations. My colleagues Tim Carlson, Celeste Cruz, Sandy Marcus and I truly appreciate it.”

    With gratitude,

    Ms. Doko

    This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose.org Community and 27 other donors.
While working in a special education school, in a low-income community in the Bronx, it often becomes hard to provide our students with proper tools to communicate. Before any of our students can receive a device that will be with them 24/7, we as speech therapists must prove, with data, that the child is device ready and is able to be assessed for a device. Unfortunately, many of our students don't have experience using a device or a program that will help give them a voice. As eager as we are to help our students gain experience using a device, we simply don't have the means to help them. Having access to iPads with the proper programmatic software, such as Proloquo2go or LAMP words for life as well as other programs, will help our students prosper and gain their voice, which is vital for an improved quality of life. Access to a device facilitates different forms of communication and can help to decrease any negative behaviors that may result from the inability to express their wants, needs, thoughts, and feelings. Helping our students to communicate and have a voice of their own is the most powerful tool that one can ever give. We are asking for your support to help our students in need. Every child deserves a voice and with your help we make this possible.

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While working in a special education school, in a low-income community in the Bronx, it often becomes hard to provide our students with proper tools to communicate. Before any of our students can receive a device that will be with them 24/7, we as speech therapists must prove, with data, that the child is device ready and is able to be assessed for a device. Unfortunately, many of our students don't have experience using a device or a program that will help give them a voice. As eager as we are to help our students gain experience using a device, we simply don't have the means to help them. Having access to iPads with the proper programmatic software, such as Proloquo2go or LAMP words for life as well as other programs, will help our students prosper and gain their voice, which is vital for an improved quality of life. Access to a device facilitates different forms of communication and can help to decrease any negative behaviors that may result from the inability to express their wants, needs, thoughts, and feelings. Helping our students to communicate and have a voice of their own is the most powerful tool that one can ever give. We are asking for your support to help our students in need. Every child deserves a voice and with your help we make this possible.

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