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Mrs. Saks from Norfolk VA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Communicating at Home

Help me give my students communication books to use at home during virtual learning.

  • $513 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

I’m a speech therapist at a Title I school in an urban area. I’ve been at the same school for over 25 years and serve over 50 children. Even though my job gets more challenging every year due to my students’ needs continuing to increase, I stay because of all the amazing kids I get to work with.

Even though a large portion of my children can’t speak and have significant physical and medical concerns, each and every one of them perseveres to find a way to communicate, even if it’s a facial expression or giggle.

They challenge and encourage me every day. But mostly, they make me smile every day, in person and virtually!

My Project

Our Title 1, Prekg- 8 school, continues to be 100% virtual. This has been challenging for all of the teachers and children. Our school is home to 6 classes of student with multiple disabilities. Most of these students have communication needs and many of them are non or limited verbal communicators. My students need communication books for home. Many of our families cannot afford high-tech communication devices. These books are the perfect solution to assisting the children and their families communicate their needs, wants, and, feelings while learning from home.

Mrs. Saks
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Visual Communication Photo Symbol Book, Autism Language Flash Cards, Vocabulary, Learning Speech Therapy Articulation ASD ADD ADHD & Apraxia • Amazon Business $79.99 5 $399.95

Materials cost

$399.95

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$435.95

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$76.93

Total project goal

$512.88

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$512.88

1 Donor

-$217.98

Donations toward project cost

-$217.98

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$256.44

Match offer toward project cost

-$217.97

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$38.47

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$38.47

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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Project Activity

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