{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Columbia Regional Inclusive Services","outOfStateSupporters":29.1,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":10285320,"projectId":10328703,"letterContent":"These books had an immediate impact for the families I work with who speak a different language in the home. It can be intimidating even to go to the local library when you don't speak English, and so these books were much appreciated and will be well used. \r\n\r\nI have been instructing my families on the importance of reading to their child and modeling for them how to make reading fun using these donated books. When they see the delight on their child's face, they understand what a good activity reading is for promoting language. \r\n\r\nThank you all so much for giving to this project and helping building language skills as well as the love of reading in children with hearing loss!","fullyFundedDate":1789594845863,"projectUrl":"project/books-for-non-english-speaking-families/10328703/","projectTitle":"Books for Non-English Speaking Families","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Smyth","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10285320"},{"teacherId":9924594,"projectId":10377693,"letterContent":"Your support helps families of children who are Deaf or hard of hearing get the language support they need from teachers who specialize in working with Deaf and hard of hearing children. Families learn practical strategies they can use throughout the day during everyday routines and interactions with their child.\r\n\r\nOur goal is to give every child the opportunity to develop language, communicate with their family, and be understood. Strong early language skills help build a foundation for pre-literacy skills and kindergarten readiness.\r\n\r\nBecause of generous supporters like you, families have the tools and support they need to help their children learn, communicate, and thrive. Thank you for being part of this important work and for helping give every child the opportunity to find their voice and connect with the people they love.","fullyFundedDate":1787160460623,"projectUrl":"project/language-development-for-deaf-and-hard-o/10377693/","projectTitle":"Language Development for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Diana","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9924594_orig.jpg?crop=1855,1855,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1739814022847","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/dianakincaid"},{"teacherId":9924594,"projectId":10507294,"letterContent":"Thank you very much for such an incredible donation! Parents of young deaf and hard of hearing children will receive a high quality book that promotes language development. Parents will be encouraged to read the book in their preferred home language. Families will also learn to use American Sign Language to sign the book with their Deaf or hard of hearing children. \r\nThese high quality, age appropriate books promote early language development with their caregivers.\r\n\r\nFamilies who have children who are Deaf or hard of hearing benefit from targeted language instruction with a teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing, so that they can continue the language development strategies during all routines and interactions throughout the day. \r\nOur goal is for all children to have language and to be able to communicate with their families. Strong early language leads to strong pre-literacy skills and kindergarten readiness. \r\n\r\nThank you!","fullyFundedDate":1787070713051,"projectUrl":"project/first-words-book-for-deaf-and-hard-of-he/10507294/","projectTitle":"First Words Book for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Diana","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9924594_orig.jpg?crop=1855,1855,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1739814022847","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/dianakincaid"},{"teacherId":9924594,"projectId":10507175,"letterContent":"Thank you very much for your generous donation! \r\nParents of young deaf and hard of hearing children will receive a high quality book that promotes language development. Parents will be encouraged to read the book in their preferred home language. Families will also learn to use American Sign Language to sign the book with their Deaf or hard-of-hearing children. \r\nThese high-quality, language focused books promote early language development with their caregivers.\r\n\r\nThank you very much for your continued support and encouragement for our project. Your generous donation enables families to engage in language activities for their deaf and hard of hearing children.","fullyFundedDate":1787348905695,"projectUrl":"project/language-development-for-deaf-and-hard-o/10507175/","projectTitle":"Language Development for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Diana","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9924594_orig.jpg?crop=1855,1855,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1739814022847","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/dianakincaid"},{"teacherId":9924594,"projectId":10317841,"letterContent":"Thanks to your kindness, high quality toys to promote language development are in use with Deaf and hard of hearing children. These toys are used to practice vehicle sounds such as beep beep (car), choo choo (train) and Ahhh (airplane). Teachers practice saying these sounds with children, and together they play and work on making the sounds. Your support is making a tangible difference in their educational journey, opening up new worlds of stories and learning. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your commitment to our students. Thank you so much for your generous donation! Your gift will help empower parents and teachers who have children who are deaf and hard of hearing to develop language.","fullyFundedDate":1786641697915,"projectUrl":"project/learning-to-listen-toys/10317841/","projectTitle":"Learning to Listen Toys","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Diana","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9924594_orig.jpg?crop=1855,1855,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1739814022847","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/dianakincaid"},{"teacherId":9924594,"projectId":10289640,"letterContent":"Thank you very much for your generous donation for this project! Our students love the books \"opposites\" and 'moo baa lalala\". We used these books during two recent playgroups. The Teacher of the deaf and the ASL specialist read the book aloud in English and ASL. The families each took a book home to read with their children. \r\n\r\nEach book had a sticker on the back with a QR code for a link to see the book signed in ASL. \r\n\r\nThank you very much for your generous donation to support young deaf and hard of hearing children!","fullyFundedDate":1779212450895,"projectUrl":"project/board-books-for-deaf-and-hard-of-hearing/10289640/","projectTitle":"Board Books for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Playgroup","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Diana","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9924594_orig.jpg?crop=1855,1855,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1739814022847","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/dianakincaid"},{"teacherId":9924594,"projectId":10289125,"letterContent":"Thank you very much for your generous donation! Thank you for supplying our program with a collection of books that represent deaf and hard of hearing main characters. \r\n\r\nThis collection included: \r\nSunny and Her Cochlear Implants \r\nPeyton's Magical Hearing Aid \r\nZola Gets Hearing Aids \r\nOllie Otter Gets a Cochlear Implant (Just An Otter Day) \r\nLING LING BIRD Seen and Heard: A joyous tale of friendship, acceptance and magic ears! \r\nSuper Kena: A Girl Made Fierce with Hearing Aids\r\nJack and the Crunchy Leaves: My First Hearing Aids\r\nAda and the Helpers\r\nBessie Needs Hearing Aids\r\n\r\nThank you very much for your generous gift. These books will be displayed in your family engagement center for families to read with their young deaf and hard of hearing children.","fullyFundedDate":1779212451175,"projectUrl":"project/books-featuring-deaf-or-hard-of-hearing/10289125/","projectTitle":"Books Featuring Deaf or Hard of Hearing Characters","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Diana","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9924594_orig.jpg?crop=1855,1855,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1739814022847","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/dianakincaid"},{"teacherId":9924594,"projectId":10188304,"letterContent":"Thank you very much for your generous donation to support young deaf and hard of hearing children in Portland. We are incredibly thankful for your support. The students loved reading this book. \r\n\r\nMany students connected with the illustrations of children, noticing that the children have hearing aids. \r\n\r\nThank you very much for your continued support and encouragement for our project. Your generous donation enables families to engage in language activities for their deaf and hard of hearing children.","fullyFundedDate":1778614745187,"projectUrl":"project/little-signs-big-smiles-in-asl/10188304/","projectTitle":"Little Signs, Big Smiles in ASL","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Diana","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9924594_orig.jpg?crop=1855,1855,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1739814022847","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/dianakincaid"},{"teacherId":9924594,"projectId":10156260,"letterContent":"Thank you very much for your generous donation for this project! Our students love the book, I can say Bye Bye. Teachers read this book with deaf and hard of hearing children who are developing spoken language and American Sign Language. \r\n\r\nThe students engaged with this book, usually imitating the words and the signs on each page. Students also have the opportunity to read the book with their parents and caregivers. \r\n\r\nThank you very much for your generous donation to support young deaf and hard of hearing children!","fullyFundedDate":1776464473671,"projectUrl":"project/i-can-say-bye-bye-book/10156260/","projectTitle":"I Can Say Bye-Bye Book","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Diana","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9924594_orig.jpg?crop=1855,1855,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1739814022847","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/dianakincaid"},{"teacherId":9924594,"projectId":10028826,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generous donation supporting my book project for Deaf and hard of hearing students. We received a set of the wonderful book \"Imitation: Interactive & Fun Learn to Talk Board Book\". Your kindness helps create inclusive, engaging learning tools that support the development of language for children who are deaf or hard of hearing. I have witnessed students who are very engaged with this book and engaged in activities to build language. Thank you.\r\n\r\n I am deeply grateful for your support.","fullyFundedDate":1771013348063,"projectUrl":"project/language-development-books-for-deaf-chil/10028826/","projectTitle":"Language Development Books for Deaf Children","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Diana","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9924594_orig.jpg?crop=1855,1855,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1739814022847","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/dianakincaid"},{"teacherId":9924594,"projectId":9853982,"letterContent":"Thanks to your kindness, high quality toys to promote language development are in use with Deaf and hard of hearing children. These toys are used to practice the names and sounds for each animal. Together they play and work on making the sounds. \r\n\r\n\r\nYour support is making a tangible difference in their educational journey, opening up new worlds of stories and learning. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your commitment to our students. \r\n\r\nThank you so much for your generous donation! Your gift will help empower parents and teachers who have children who are deaf and hard of hearing to develop language.","fullyFundedDate":1769060019251,"projectUrl":"project/language-development-toys-and-books-for/9853982/","projectTitle":"Language Development Toys and Books for Deaf Children","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Diana","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9924594_orig.jpg?crop=1855,1855,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1739814022847","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/dianakincaid"},{"teacherId":10285320,"projectId":9897309,"letterContent":"These toys have bring so much joy to the kids I work with! I love seeing the concentration on their faces as they discover and try to make sense of these new toys. I can almost see the learning happening in real time. \r\n\r\nWhat's more, these toys are wonderful language learning tools. As they play, I am able to provide words for the child about what he or she is doing or what is happening. These are words that are much easier learned in the act of play than any other way. \r\n\r\nThank you so much for your generosity, and please know that these toys are getting a lot of use and helping build the language skills of many little ones with hearing loss!","fullyFundedDate":1773351501585,"projectUrl":"project/give-children-with-hearing-loss-some-toy/9897309/","projectTitle":"Give Children With Hearing Loss Some Toys for Language Learning","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Smyth","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10285320"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_124204","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":null,"numTeachers":null,"percentFrplEligible":57,"percentAsian":5,"percentBlack":7,"percentWhite":51,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":17,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","percentHawaiianImputed":0,"percentMultiracialImputed":11,"gradesServed":"Not specified","studentTeacherRatio":null,"demographicsDataSource":"MDR District Record","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":false,"metroType":"UNCLASSIFIED","ncesMetroType":null},"inStateSupporters":70.9,"schoolId":124204,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Columbia Regional Inclusive Services on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Columbia Regional Inclusive Services","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/oregon/portland-public-schools/columbia-regional-program-preschool-wilcox/124204"}