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Ms. Karen from Newark, DE is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Adapted Books for Exceptional Learners

Help me give my students who have multiple disabilities accessible, adapted stories and activities with a quality all-in-one printer.

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My Students

My students are deaf, hard-of-hearing, and deaf-blind from all over our state. Many have additional disabilities. Our program is a birth-21 bilingual program. Instruction is delivered in American Sign Language and English. The majority of our students receive free or reduced price lunch and take home food backpacks every weekend. We have students of many ethnic and racial backgrounds - African American, Latino, Caucasian, Middle Eastern, Chinese, Hatian, to name a few.

Things our students all have in common are: they are proud members of the Deaf Community who use American Sign Language to communicate; and they all come every day anxious and ready to learn in our school where they have the benefit of direct communication with their teachers and peers.

With COVID and remote school, it is a challenge to keep instruction meaningful and accessible. I am the librarian at our school and I have spent a lot of hours creating props and materials to go along with the different stories I share with our youngest students.

My Project

In teaching our students who are Deaf/Blind and/or who have multiple disabilities, we often must create adapted materials that are more "friendly" and accessible for their needs.

For my Library/STEAM classes, I create adapted versions of the books I share for our exceptional learners.

During COVID remote/hybrid school, I create all of these materials at home and deliver them to my students. The printer I have at home is old, slow, and does not give me the print/scan quality that the machines at school do. Ink runs out quickly, too, and I've used a lot since March.

This new, faster, higher quality printer will make it much easier for me to create these materials in half the time. The filing/storage supplies will help me keep the things I create organized and easier to find when it is time to send new materials to the students.

Ms. Karen Delaware School for the Deaf Grades PreK-2

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Newark, DE View local requests

More than half of 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

45 students impacted 1donor

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Brother MFC-J995DW INKvestment Tank Color Inkjet Printer All-in-One with Up to 1-Year of Ink In-box • Staples Advantage $199.99 1 $199.99
Avery Easy Peel Laser Address Labels, 1" x 2 5/8", White, 7500/Box (5960) • Staples Advantage $65.99 1 $65.99
TRU RED Portable File Tote, Letter Size, Clear (TR58298) • Staples Advantage $12.99 4 $51.96
TRU RED File Folders, 1/3 Cut, Letter Size, Assorted Colors, 250/Box (TR502678) • Staples Advantage $41.88 1 $41.88
TRU RED Hanging File Folder, 5-Tab, Letter Size, Standard Green, 50/Box (TR266262) • Staples Advantage $20.73 2 $41.46
Duck HD Clear, Acrylic Packing Tape, 1.88" x 54.6 yds., Clear, 6/Pack (441962) • Staples Advantage $14.27 2 $28.54
Astrobrights Spectrum Cardstock Paper, 8.5" x 11", 65 lbs, Assorted Colors, 100/Pack (91398) • Staples Advantage $12.99 2 $25.98

Materials cost

$455.80

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.84

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$492.64

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$86.94

Total project goal

$579.58

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $579.58

1 Donor

-$579.58

Donations toward project cost

-$492.64

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$86.94

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