Ms. Rebecca Teitelbaum's Classroom Edit display name

Past projects 4

• Let's Make Speech Therapy Fun and Engaging!

  Funded Jan 11, 2022

  Thank you so much for making my students so happy with these new materials for my speech therapy sessions! I have been using the games in therapy to work on turn-taking skills, expanding utterances, following directions, answering WH questions, and producing speech sounds. My students are so happy to learn through play and it makes working on their speech and language goals motivating and fun! They look forward to speech sessions everyday and I am so happy to see them practicing their speech and language skills while being so engaged!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Rebecca Teitelbaum

• Back to School Speech Therapy Supplies

  Funded Aug 12, 2021

  Thank you so much for your very generous donations to my Donor's Choose Project! The materials have been a huge hit with my students! We have been using the games during speech therapy sessions to increase communication skills such as turn-taking, increasing sentence length, social interaction, answering questions, and following directions. I have been using the laminating sheets and velcro dots and other supplies to create visuals to aid in increasing my students' abilities to answer questions and communicate with peers and adults throughout the school day. My students are so appreciative to be able to learn and interact with peers in a fun and exciting way! It's been a great start to the 2021-2022 school year because of you!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Rebecca Teitelbaum

  This classroom project was brought to life by Bill Gates and 9 other donors.

• Let's Taco 'Bout Speech Therapy

  Funded Feb 26, 2020

  I want to thank you so much for your extremely generous donations! I asked for two "OSMO- Genius starter kits for iPads" for ages 6-10, and for preschool ages. My students absolutely love this! The kits come with various manipulatives, which students can interact with while watching the program on the app. For example, when using the program with my kindergarteners, they use the manipulatives to create different letters of the alphabet based on the letter being learned at that time. I can use this activity with a group of students or just one student! I also asked for games that target language skills including comprehension, predicting, reading for details, following directions, context clues, and sequencing. My students are so grateful to have games that are motivating for them while they also work on their speech and language goals. I also asked for an "echo" microphone, which my students now use throughout the day to share what they have to say, to answer questions, and to speak with each other. Lastly, I asked for basic supplies to create visuals and adapted materials for my students. These materials are very important for my work as a speech therapist, since I always want to make sure every student can understand the lesson, whether that requires extra visual supports or other adapted materials.

  Again, my students and I thank you so much for donating and allowing us to receive these wonderful speech therapy materials!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Rebecca Teitelbaum

• Basic Supplies for Speech Therapy!

  Funded Dec 3, 2019

  For my project, I asked for basic supplies to use in speech therapy such as printer ink and paper, a laminator, laminating sheets, and velcro. I asked for these items because my students benefit from visuals that I create to help them to communicate both at school and at home. Visuals are pictures involving symbols or words that are printed on paper and laminated. They sometimes involve Velcro as well so that students can easily take the visuals off and give them to a peer or an adult as a method of communication.

  I specifically use visual supports in the classroom during activities such as "joint action routines." These are activities that involve teaching communication and other skills through naturalistic environments. They also promote social interaction amongst the students. For example, as you can see in my pictures, my students and I do a variety of activities that have themes (I.e thanksgiving). For each of these activities, I create visuals relating to the activity that will aid in their communication skills during the activity. I also use visuals for play-based activities such as having a child who is nonverbal communicate about a toy by pointing to words such as "go," "spin," "again" and "my turn."

  My students who are nonverbal as well as minimally and moderately verbal all benefit from visuals to aid in their communication. The basic supplies that I have received have helped my students to strengthen their communication skills during activities and throughout the school day. My students and I thank you for your generous donations!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Rebecca Teitelbaum

  This classroom project was brought to life by An anonymous classroom supporter and 12 other donors.