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Mr. Sacco from Boston, MA is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Speech Device

My students need tablets to help increase their ability to speak. I am writing this grant in conjunction with the schools speech department.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Sacco's classroom raised $1,005

This project is fully funded

My Students

Do you remember the child who had a speech impediment or could not talk at all. The assistive devices we are requesting are tools to help them learn to enunciate and in some cases are used as communications devices for students who can not speak.

The student has a number of physically challenged students who have trouble speaking.

The speech teachers at our school try to provide them with as much assistance as they can but the tablets would make practicing easier for the students. There are some wonderful characters that repeat what a child says. The child has a chance to hear themselves and try to correct what they hear. It also give the child a chance to laugh a little while they learn to correct their speech.

My Project

Please help these wonderful students with speech problems. Our hope is to have them speaking better by the time they leave our school. It will be so helpful to have the tablets as a tool to improve their speech and their lives. In some cases it gives a child the chance to communicate for the first time.

This project is so important to helping a number of students.

The school is a large school with more than sixty percent of the students below the poverty level. These assistive devices would be a great help.

Mr. Sacco Josiah Quincy Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Boston, MA 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

50 students impacted 17donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Apple iPad 2 Wi-Fi - tablet - iOS 5 - 16 GB - 9.7' • Best Buy $399.99 2 $799.98

Materials cost

$799.98

Vendor shipping charges

$12.00

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$853.98

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$150.70

Total project goal

$1,004.68

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,004.68

11 Donors

-$883.68

Donations toward project cost

-$751.13

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$132.55

Matching donations from our partners

-$121.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$102.85

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.15

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$0.00

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