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Mr. Bender from San Francisco, CA is requesting sports & exercise equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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A Fun Way to Learn to Walk

My students need to be able to move their bodies through space under their own power using this Freedom Concepts Trike , some of them for the first time in their lives.

  • $4,632 goal

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My Students

This class of Special Education students with severe orthopedic impairments really gets around! We work with General Ed students and teachers, administrators, therapists, families, and community members in school, at home and out in the community to help each student reach their full academic, social, and vocational potential. All of our students are non-verbal and use speech-generating devices of all kinds to say what they mean and show what they know, whether in the classroom, the cafeteria, at home or at one of our neighborhood stores.

These 9th-12th graders are the hardest working in all of California!

One student with apraxia struggles until he gets sweaty to answer a question using his arms, even when his body just won't cooperate. We have students who fight again and again to control compulsive behaviors, including one young man who puts his hand over his mouth to control his involuntary speech approximations that appear when he is excited; and all of our students bravely enter unfamiliar and scary environments and challenges every day to become more active members of our school and community.

My Project

Students with severe mobility impairments can miss out on many important life experiences. It is intuitive to those of us without impaired mobility to know that this is true. The simple act of moving your body through space is something most of us take for granted every day. Yet without this physical experience, our brains don’t develop within typical parameters, making it less and less likely that students will ever learn to walk or to approximate walking.

For the first time in their lives, students will really get the feel of their bodies producing the reciprocal motion that occurs when we walk!

Freedom Concepts adapted tricycles reciprocal motion replicates the movement needed for walking, so students can learn how to produce this motion in a safe, non-weight bearing position. This is an important incremental step, which allows our students’ brains to learn the motion necessary for walking.

We will use our trikes to participate in our high school’s bike club, and during regular PE classes, as well as during trips out into the community to make purchases for our class. It will be our students’ responsibility to care for our trikes, including keeping the tires inflated, keeping the chains clean and well oiled, and to make sure the trikes are safely stored away at the end of each day. It is also a hope that students can check out the trikes for the weekend, sharing the fun with families and expanding our students’ experience beyond the school community.

Mr. Bender
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
AS 2000 JR Tricycle • Freedom Concepts $3,192.00 1 $3,192.00

Materials cost

$3,192.00

Vendor shipping charges

 $375.00

Sales tax

 $292.07

3rd party payment processing fee

$47.88

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$3,936.95

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$694.76

Total project goal

$4,631.71

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $4,631.71

47 Donors

-$4,583.48

Donations toward project cost

-$3,936.95

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$646.53

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$48.23

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