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Ms. Kristal Thomas from Brooklyn, NY is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Keep Speech Therapy Alive - In Bed-Sty

My students need interactive software and games to keep them engaged while addressing their IEP goals. My students with autism and speech delays will benefit from games.

  • $1,073 goal

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My Students

I am a speech language pathologist working in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. My children learn and meet their IEP goals through interactive and tangible means. They learn through multi-sensory modalities that are fun and educational.

My students are an awesome and dynamic group who are diagnosed with either a Language Learning Disability, Autism, Dyslexia, Auditory Processing Disorders, Articulation/Speech Sound delays, etc.

These disorders lend itself to poor functioning in the classroom such as decreased literacy skills, poor vocabulary, poor social/pragmatic skills, decreased comprehension ability, or simply can not follow directions because they do not have the knowledge of spatial and positional terms. My children have delays in linguistic underpinnings that prevent them from moving forward. In my school, the teachers work collaboratively to find different strategies, however, the funding to have dynamic, fun, and brightened interventions are at a minimum. Time to create unique interventions is limited and the children relate to technology, games, and hand-on learning. Paper and pencil is not enough for academic retention - especially vocabulary.

My Project

The plethora of items that was requested for donorschoice.org incorporate items that relates to the students. We have a smart board in the speech therapy room in which the students love. The games requested address the aforementioned IEP goals. These students will improve, with your help, in their phonemic awareness, phonological awareness, social skills, vocabulary and semantics, and ability to follow directions. Imagine a first grader, who is told to compare and contrast using a Venn Diagram, However, when told to put the similarities between to items on the inside he is unable to complete the task. Why? He does not understand the concept of inside. These requested games and interactive software will greatly enhance the speech therapy program and the motivation factor with directly increase as well.

The requested items will change my students lives who come from this inner city urban neighborhood by providing the interactive experience they do not have access to elsewhere.

It will enhance their retention of material so that they can take these linguistic concepts into the classroom and thrive academically. The speech therapy room will be a haven of words and sounds that will inspire the children to learn and grow.

Ms. Kristal Thomas PS 81 Thaddeus Stevens Grades PreK-2

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

30 students impacted 24donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Wireless Eggspert • Kaplan Early Learning Company $84.96 2 $169.92
HH426CP - Vocabulary Quiz Game Show - Gr. 4-6 - Class License CD-ROM • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
HH428CP - Vocabulary Quiz Game Show - Gr. 1-3 - Class License CD-ROM • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
PP148CP - Let’s Learn Vocabulary! Interactive Game Show - Class License CD-ROM • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
PP178CP - Listening & Following Directions Descriptive Words Interactive Game - Class License CD-ROM • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
PP133CP - Can Do! Phonemic Awareness Game - Class License CD-ROM • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
HH811CP - Star Power Premiere: Following Directions Game - Class License CD-ROM • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
HH953CP - Sound Switching Game - Class License CD-ROM • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
PP146CP - Let’s Learn Phonics! Interactive Game Show - Class License CD-ROM • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
Vocabulary Classroom Books (set of 6) • Kaplan Early Learning Company $37.36 1 $37.36
JJ157 - What’s the Rhyme? Sorting Houses • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
GG441 - Early Comprehension Story Wheels • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
Social Skills Board Games • Kaplan Early Learning Company $28.01 1 $28.01
RR103 - Pop & Match Opposites Game • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.99 1 $24.99
RR102 - Pop & Match Positional Words Game • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.99 1 $24.99
Double Dueltm - A Double Meaning Word Game • Kaplan Early Learning Company $23.76 1 $23.76
LL904 - Storyteller Writing Box • Lakeshore Learning Materials $21.99 1 $21.99
Blunderstm Board Game • Kaplan Early Learning Company $21.21 1 $21.21
FG323 - Zingo! Bingo Game • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99
PP407 - Shades of Meaning Word Fans - Gr. 2-3 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99
PP677 - Let's Get Talking! Prompt Box • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99
FG322 - Zingo! Sight-Words Bingo Game • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99
Zingo Game • Kaplan Early Learning Company $16.96 1 $16.96
Faces and Feelings Board Game • Kaplan Early Learning Company $13.56 1 $13.56
Under, Over, by the Clover-Preposition • Kaplan Early Learning Company $5.91 1 $5.91

Materials cost

$868.52

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.03

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$911.55

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$160.86

Total project goal

$1,072.41

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,072.41

22 Donors

-$749.47

Donations toward project cost

-$643.80

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$105.67

match offer

-$315.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$267.75

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$47.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$7.94

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