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Mrs. Fritschi Hounshell from Ridgewood, NY is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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A Picture's Worth A Thousand Words!

My students need 5 photo libraries, 3 teaching tubs and a teaching tubs storage rack.

  • $764 goal

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Communication Counts! Help students with autism learn to speak, understand language, and communicate. I teach 7th and 8th grade children with autism in a special day class. These students are in the only class of it's type in the district and are in the most restrictive setting the district offers.

These kids have had 3 different teachers in the last 3 years, a very bad situation for students with autism. The class is relatively new and resources are given to other students in other classes. These kids and this room had so few materials when I started and since they are visual learners they need as many visual cues and manipulatives as possible in order to learn.

By using photo cards and real objects, the students can begin to use receptive and expressive language to indicate their needs and wants. With time, training, and a lot of hard work we can turn the autism deficit into a strength.

You will help my students to use the visual strengths they possess to make up for the communicative deficits by providing the materials necessary to promote speech and language in the classroom.

Mrs. Fritschi Hounshell
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
AA216 - Social Studies Photo Library • Lakeshore Learning $44.50 1 $44.50
AA248 - Building Language Photo Library • Lakeshore Learning $49.50 1 $49.50
DD520X - Vocabulary Development Photo Card Libraries - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning $99.50 1 $99.50
AA246 - All About Math Photo Library • Lakeshore Learning $29.95 1 $29.95
LC682 - Vowel Teaching Tubs • Lakeshore Learning $59.50 1 $59.50
RR993 - Alphabet Sounds Photo Library • Lakeshore Learning $49.95 1 $49.95
LA627 - Teaching Tubs Storage Rack • Lakeshore Learning $29.95 1 $29.95
LC856 - Alphabet Sounds Teaching Tubs • Lakeshore Learning $129.00 1 $129.00
LA588 - Rhyming Sounds Teaching Tubs • Lakeshore Learning $49.50 1 $49.50

Materials cost

$541.35

Vendor shipping charges

 $54.14

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.53

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$626.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$137.41

Total project goal

$763.41

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $763.41

3 Donors

-$736.47

Donations toward project cost

-$626.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$110.47

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$26.94

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 $0.00

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