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The no-prep format allows us to dive right into practice, maximizing our time together and allowing for a high number of trials during each session. In addition, these materials allowed me to individualize practice based on each student's IEP goals while keeping them motivated and engaged.\r\n\r\nThank you again for giving my students the tools they need to succeed. Your generosity has truly made a difference, and we're so grateful to have you as part of our learning community.","fullyFundedDate":1750682699135,"projectUrl":"project/articulation-resources-for-speech-therap/9270899/","projectTitle":"Articulation Resources for Speech Therapy","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Piekutowski","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9742375_orig.jpg?crop=750,750,x0,y72&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1726333546399","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9742375"},{"teacherId":9742375,"projectId":9339457,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation to my speech therapy classroom and for providing my students with access to a variety of tools and materials that will help them complete activities during our sessions. The students I work with face a range of communication challenges, including articulation difficulties, expressive and receptive language disorders, social communication challenges, and fluency disorders. These obstacles can impact not only their academic success, but also their confidence and ability to communicate with peers and staff.\r\n\r\nThanks to your donation, I've been able to purchase adaptable resources from Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT), which allow me to tailor each session to meet the unique needs of every student. In addition to educational resources, your support helped provide basic supplies like crayons, colored pencils, and glue sticks — essentials that enable my students to participate fully in hands-on speech activities. Incorporating arts and crafts into speech sessions has been incredibly impactful. These creative projects provide a natural, engaging way for students to practice important speech and language skills, such as following directions, describing objects, retelling events, and using complete sentences. Whereas, the game \"Monkeying Around\" from Lakeshore Learning has become a favorite among my students. This game, in particular, is both fun and therapeutic, it motivates students to participate, helps them practice turn-taking, and encourages the use of functional phrases and complete sentences. \r\n\r\nAdditional materials such as paperclips, manila folders, and laminating sheets have helped me stay organized and preserve resources for long-term use, and the disinfecting wipes have helped keep our space clean and safe for learning.","fullyFundedDate":1750682698086,"projectUrl":"project/speech-therapy-classroom-essentials/9339457/","projectTitle":"Speech Therapy Classroom Essentials","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Piekutowski","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9742375_orig.jpg?crop=750,750,x0,y72&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1726333546399","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9742375"},{"teacherId":9742375,"projectId":9093732,"letterContent":"The materials purchased from Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT) have given my speech therapy students access to creative, flexible, and engaging resources that meet their unique communication needs. 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Your donation has made a meaningful difference for my students. \r\n\r\nWe have been using the language flashcards to build vocabulary, sort categories, and practice describing actions and emotions. Whereas the WH Question Flipbook has been encouraging my speech students to form longer sentences and answer a variety of questions with growing confidence. Overall these resources have been very beneficial with increasing my student's expressive and receptive language development. These tools have been engaging, flexible, and perfect for addressing a variety of speech goals across different ability levels. The visuals have been especially helpful in making abstract concepts more concrete.\r\n\r\nYour generosity has helped create a dynamic and supportive environment where every student can make meaningful progress towards their goals. 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