My students need these materials to practice Literacy and Social skills for my students who have visual impairments and additional learning disabilities.
FULLY FUNDED! Dr. Gardiner's classroom raised $178
This project is fully funded
My Students
My students have visual impairments, and some of them have additional disabilities. All of my students have been struggling with reading due to lack of Braille skills. Some of them started learning braille because of their decreasing vision, and some of them may require additional assistance although they have been blind since birth.
The Literacy has been very important for them.
Learning to read and write Braille takes lots of practices and different strategies. It is critical that they all need to know how to read and write in Braille. The literacy can be nothing without learning the braille.
My Project
My students have significantly delayed in social skills due to the visual impairments and additional learning challenges. The social skills can be one of the Exoanded Core Curriculum (ECC) skills, whoch is a vision specific skills that the students must be taught in orer to survive in the society. Because of their vision loss, my students have difficulty to read nonverbal cues including facil expression, gestures, and body language. They also do not know how to demonstrate socially accpetable behaviors in different occasions.
I would like to incorporate Braille reading, writing, vocabulary skills when I teach social skills through the social stories.
The social stories will be created as a braille format by the teacher. Majority of the words in the text are frequently used Dolch word lists that the students practice decoding and vocabulary skills. The students will apply reading and writing skills as they read the text from different social stories. The students will be taught how to demonstrate social behaviors at the end of the lesson.
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
Newest! ALL DOLCH SIGHT WORD SETS 600 Dolch and Fry Sight Words Reading Flash Cards Lot
• Amazon Business
$36.99
1
$36.99
The New Social Story Book, Revised and Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition: Over 150 Social Stories that Teach Everyday Social Skills to Children with Autism or Asperger's Syndrome, and their Peers
• Amazon Business
$32.32
1
$32.32
The New Social Story Book, Revised and Expanded 15th Anniversary Edition: Over 150 Social Stories that Teach Everyday Social Skills to Children and Adults with Autism and their Peers
• Amazon Business
$26.37
1
$26.37
Social Skills Games and Activities for Kids with Autism
• Amazon Business
$16.04
1
$16.04
Materials cost
$111.72
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$7.71
3rd party payment processing fee
$1.68
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$151.11
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$26.67
Total project goal
$177.78
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$177.78
2 Donors
-$177.78
Donations toward project cost
-$151.11
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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