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Smarty Symbols for Smarter Students With Autism

Help me give my students access to Smarty Symbols to create classroom visuals.

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My Students

Our class is comprised of eight, amazing students with autism across three grade levels who learn in many different ways. Our students come from different wards from within DC, not just from the surrounding neighborhood. Our class is a self-contained classroom, which means that the majority of each students' learning takes place within our room. Many of our students also receive some instruction in the general education setting and are able to interact and socialize with their typically developing peers throughout the day.

Autism is a developmental disability that affects the way our students interact and communicate with others.

Autism is a spectrum disorder and our students' skills and abilities fall all over the range of the spectrum. We have students who are approaching grade level academically as well as students who are not yet communicating verbally. Each of our students is unique and has their own strengths, gifts and support needs. All of our students need support in the areas of communication, behavior, social interaction and daily living skills.

My Project

In our self-contained classroom for students with autism, we thrive on visual supports. We use visuals to supplement verbal language so that our students are better able to understand language, communicate their wants and needs, and follow directions more clearly.

Our classroom is requesting a yearlong subscription to Smarty Symbols which is an online program with access to over 21,000 special education images.

These symbols have already been and will continue to be a great asset to our room. These images will assist in the creation of visual supports for use across the day as well as for use in my students' homes. Smarty Symbols will help to make labels for classroom materials, task analyses for steps of routines, and visual directions for art activities.

I know this program will impact the education of our students if we had access to it, so I hope you are able to help support our class!

Ms. Marber Hearst Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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Washington, DC View local requests 8 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Yearly Subscription • Smarty Symbols $219.00 1 $219.00

Materials cost

$219.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $13.14

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.28

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$265.42

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$46.84

Total project goal

$312.26

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $312.26

1 Donor

-$312.26

Donations toward project cost

-$265.42

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$46.84

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