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As of data from 2016, 13 percent of students ages 3–21 who were enrolled in public schools received special education services. I am a school-based occupational therapist working at an elementary school with five special education classes, ranging from mild, to moderate, to severe needs. The kids who I work with receive specialized academic instruction based on eligibility criteria including: developmental delay, orthopedic impairment, autism, specific learning disability, multiple disabilities, and more. My role is to provide direct intervention or consultation on how to make motor tasks related to school function easier. I've come to realize that we take so much of what kids can do for granted. Common school tools (i.e. counting blocks, pencils, and paintbrushes) can be challenging to hold and frustrating to manage for my students. Even the playground can be a scary and unsafe place. It has been a struggle to order things through the school district (which is in a budget crisis), but I am lucky to have a classroom space to call my own. I am also blessed to work with teachers who generously share their supplies with me. I've salvaged other used materials, such as a trampoline, a plastic slide, and some toys/games from retiring coworkers. I also make a lot things out of cheap (or free) materials, such as my famous duct-tape phonebook booster seats and footrests, or my hair-roller pencil grips. I am requesting specialized things that I can't necessarily make: Egg Oh pencil grips, Twist N Write pencils, EazyHold Grips, hand weights, adapted paint brushes, large blocks, Mad Matter dough, and other preschool-level toys that I can use to help students refine their hand skills and upper body control for school function. By donating, you would be providing fresh, new, and versatile materials that will enable kids with unique needs!

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As of data from 2016, 13 percent of students ages 3–21 who were enrolled in public schools received special education services. I am a school-based occupational therapist working at an elementary school with five special education classes, ranging from mild, to moderate, to severe needs. The kids who I work with receive specialized academic instruction based on eligibility criteria including: developmental delay, orthopedic impairment, autism, specific learning disability, multiple disabilities, and more. My role is to provide direct intervention or consultation on how to make motor tasks related to school function easier. I've come to realize that we take so much of what kids can do for granted. Common school tools (i.e. counting blocks, pencils, and paintbrushes) can be challenging to hold and frustrating to manage for my students. Even the playground can be a scary and unsafe place. It has been a struggle to order things through the school district (which is in a budget crisis), but I am lucky to have a classroom space to call my own. I am also blessed to work with teachers who generously share their supplies with me. I've salvaged other used materials, such as a trampoline, a plastic slide, and some toys/games from retiring coworkers. I also make a lot things out of cheap (or free) materials, such as my famous duct-tape phonebook booster seats and footrests, or my hair-roller pencil grips. I am requesting specialized things that I can't necessarily make: Egg Oh pencil grips, Twist N Write pencils, EazyHold Grips, hand weights, adapted paint brushes, large blocks, Mad Matter dough, and other preschool-level toys that I can use to help students refine their hand skills and upper body control for school function. By donating, you would be providing fresh, new, and versatile materials that will enable kids with unique needs!

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