Past projects 9
Continuing to Communicate!
Funded Sep 17, 2022Thank you so much for your generous donation! My students have found these materials (the Chit Chat game, the conversation and emoji dice, the feelings characters and the buzzers) very engaging! They have enjoyed using them during our sessions.
These materials have really helped my students improve their conversational skills. They have used the dice and the communication game to practice their skills with expressing their opinions and asking peers questions! The feelings game and dice have helped my students learn to identify and describe their feelings. My students have really enjoyed using the buzzers with any activity!
Thank you again for your generous donation and for thinking of my students!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Dascoli
This classroom project was brought to life by Amazon.com, Inc. and one other donor.Helping to Increase Communication at School and Home
Funded Mar 29, 2022Thank you so much for your generous donations to my project. Your donations enabled me to purchase relevant and engaging therapy materials to use during speech and language therapy sessions with students in both elementary school and middle school, as well as materials to send home to families. These materials included digital materials as well as printed materials which helped my students work on improving their expressive and receptive language skills, their vocabulary skills, their speech production and their conversation skills.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Dascoli
Modern and Relevant Speech and Language Materials
Funded Nov 10, 2021Thank you so much for your generosity in funding this project. With the Teachers Pay Teachers gift card, I was able to purchase new and relevant speech and language therapy materials for my high school students. These new high-interest materials include both digital and print resources for therapy sessions, as well as send home resources to help students carry-over their skills to the community. I was able to purchase materials targeting comprehension and vocabulary strategies to help my students succeed in the classroom. In addition, I was able to purchase materials to help my students acquire functional vocabulary and improve their Life Skills to set them up for success after graduating. Thank you so much!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Dascoli
Continuing to Communicate!
Funded Dec 23, 2020Thank you so much for your generous donations that helped to fund my project! With the funds from this project, I was able to obtain new, engaging resources for my students. These new materials have helped my students continue to grow their language skills, both in school and at home.
My students were very excited to use these new engaging, digital materials during their speech therapy sessions. These materials have helped my students grow their vocabulary skills, as well as their ability to use language and understand language. We have used these materials during in-person sessions and also during our home sessions.
These funds also helped me purchase materials for my older students that have enabled us go work on functional communication on virtual fields trips in the community and with prevocational tasks.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Dascoli
Communicating at School and Home
Funded Sep 18, 2020Thank you very much for your generosity! It is so very appreciated. I am a school-based speech-language pathologist who services 75 students from preschool-aged to post-graduate with a range of communication difficulties. My school district has been remote for this school year and your generosity provided me with gift cards to Teachers Pay Teachers where I was able to purchase digital resources to use for my speech/language sessions, as well as parent resources to send home to help parents increase communication at home.
My students have loved the interactive resources that I was able to purchase with these gift cards! They have helped make our remote speech and language sessions more fun and engaging for the students, while also helping them continue to grow their language skills. I was able to purchase interactive materials to help my students focus on improving their language and communication skills, such as: producing longer sentences, answering questions, following directions, engaging in conversations and improving their vocabulary!
I have also been able to purchase virtual field trips so we could work on our language skills while at the farm, zoo and apple picking! I was also able to purchase virtual field trips to places in the community so my older students can practice their functional language skills while pretending they are at the pharmacy, grocery store, mall, doctor's office, etc. In addition, I have been able to purchase resources to send home with families to help them work on communication skills during remote learning. Thank you for helping my students succeed!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Dascoli
This classroom project was brought to life by AT&T and 2 other donors.Continuing to Communicate!
Funded Aug 5, 2020Thank you very much for your generosity! It is so very appreciated. I am a school-based speech-language pathologist who services 75 students from preschool-aged to post-graduate with a range of communication difficulties. My school district has been remote for this school year and your generosity provided me with gift cards to Teachers Pay Teachers where I was able to purchase digital resources to use for my speech/language sessions, as well as parent resources to send home to help parents increase communication at home.
My students have loved the interactive resources that I was able to purchase with these gift cards! They have helped make our remote speech and language sessions more fun and engaging for the students, while also helping them continue to grow their language skills. I was able to purchase interactive materials to help my students focus on improving their language and communication skills, such as: producing longer sentences, answering questions, following directions, engaging in conversations and improving their vocabulary!
I have also been able to purchase virtual field trips so we could work on our language skills while at the farm, zoo and apple picking! I was also able to purchase virtual field trips to places in the community so my older students can practice their functional language skills while pretending they are at the pharmacy, grocery store, mall, doctor's office, etc. In addition, I have been able to purchase resources to send home with families to help them work on communication skills during remote learning. Thank you for helping my students succeed!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Dascoli
Communication Basics
Funded May 5, 2020Thank you so much for your generosity! With your generous and thoughtful donations, I received many materials to help me organize communication binders and books for my speech/language students to use These materials included laminating sheets, binders, velcro and dry erase sheets.
Many of my students have limited verbal skills and require visuals to help them communicate their wants and needs, as well as comprehend language. I was able to laminate visuals and organize them into binders for my students to use during speech and language sessions and for them to use at home. These materials will help them be able to access their environment and participate in speech and language sessions, both in person and while learning remotely.
Thank you again for your generosity to my classroom!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Dascoli
This classroom project was brought to life by SONIC Drive-In and 4 other donors.Learning Language Through All Senses
Funded Aug 22, 2019Thank you so much for your generous donations that helped to fund my project! With the funds from this project, I was able to obtain many hands-on resources for my students. These hands-on resources have kept my students engaged and have made them excited about learning language! These materials have been especially helpful for my youngest students. They were so excited to receive them.
These materials have helped my students grow their vocabulary and language abilities using hands-on and high-interest materials. We have been able to learn and acquire new vocabulary, expand our knowledge of words that go together and begin to use describing words. These resources have also helped my students begin to learn prepositions and to follow directions, as well as to sequence stories.
I have seen my students already make gains and have fun using these materials and I can't wait to engage in more learning language through all senses activities!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Dascoli
This classroom project was brought to life by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and 9 other donors.Communicating in Color
Funded Apr 16, 2019Thank you so much for your donations that purchased our color printer for speech and language therapy! Many of my students have impacted verbal skills and we rely heavily on visuals for speech and language therapy. Having the color printer has enabled me to print all of these visuals in color instead of black and white. The color visuals are much more interesting and engaging to my students!
We have used this visuals for communication boards and communication books for some students. These color boards and books have enabled them to participate more in academic and social situations. They have been able to use these visuals to make requests, state their opinions and knowledge, as well as interact with peers.
We have also used these visuals to help my students acquire and use new vocabulary, follow directions and increase their verbal abilities by providing them with visual cues. We have also been able to use color visuals to help students manage behavior and stay on task during therapy sessions. The color printer has been a wonderful and much appreciated addition to our speech/language room!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Dascoli
This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose.org Community and 6 other donors.