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Ms. Rachel from Farmington, UT is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Accessibility Tools

Help me give my students with disabilities access to the curriculum, by using headphones with noise-canceling microphones and wireless mice.

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My Students

I am a special educator, so obviously my students are SPECIAL! To utilize their strengths despite their disabilities, we are using a fully digital curriculum. My intent is to teach my students how to use accessibility tools that are built into Microsoft applications.

At least half of my students struggle with a visual processing disorder.

They can look at a word and struggle to decode it because the visual information is processed incorrectly. My students struggle connecting a symbol with a sound, therefore making it difficult to read.

Visual processing disorders cannot be fixed through modern medicine, but strategies can be taught to combat it. They will always struggle with this, but given the tools, they can gain access to the curriculum and be successful learners.

My Project

Have you ever tried to read something and the letters moved on the page? Do you struggle reading the letter b, d, or p? When you look at a word do you have to repeat the vowels in your head to try to connect the visual symbol with its sound? Did you know that "one in five students, or 15-20% of the population, has a language based learning disability? Dyslexia is the most common of the language based learning disabilities" (dyslexiacenterofutah.org).

I teach special education and have a large number of students who struggle with this dyslexia.

I am teaching them how to use Microsoft applications that incorporate accessibility tools, which give my students better access to the curriculum. We use "Immersive Reader", which provides my students the ability to have text read to them, click on words they don't know to hear it read or give them a picture to help understand its meaning. We also use "Dictate" when writing. My students can verbalize their thoughts more easily than trying to process the sentence in their head and then put it down on paper.

To use the accessibility tools we need to use technology. We are lucky to have enough laptops but need to replace our headphones with sound-canceling microphones and wireless mice. Please support our efforts to help students with disabilities feel like they can learn with their peers.

Ms. Rachel Canyon Creek Elementary School Grades 3-5

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Farmington, UT View local requests 25 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Logitech USB Headset H390 with Noise Cancelling Mic • Amazon Business $22.99 10 $229.90
AmazonBasics Wireless Computer Mouse with Nano Receiver - Red • Amazon Business $14.99 4 $59.96
AmazonBasics Wireless Computer Mouse with Nano Receiver - Purple • Amazon Business $14.99 2 $29.98
AmazonBasics Wireless Computer Mouse with Nano Receiver - Blue • Amazon Business $14.99 2 $29.98
AmazonBasics Wireless Computer Mouse with Nano Receiver - Silver • Amazon Business $14.99 2 $29.98

Materials cost

$379.80

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.70

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$415.50

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$73.32

Total project goal

$488.82

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $488.82

3 Donors

-$437.85

Donations toward project cost

-$415.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.35

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$50.97

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 $0.00

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