Your gift will provide assistive technology used to support communication and literacy development.
We need your help to raise $6,000 more (out of our $9,000 total goal) by the end of April '24 to prepare for the next school year! Thank you for giving nearly $3,000 already on Birds Give Back!
Your giving is helping us to provide literacy and communication software essential for students with extensive support needs who benefit from using technology to communicate and learn how to read and write.
Preparing special education and general education teachers on how to use and support this technology is essential for students with extensive support needs to participate in schooling and society.
Help us reach our goal!
Help us reach our goal to raise $9,000 and increase our teacher education students’ abilities to create inclusive education environments for students with extensive support needs.
Your donation will help to purchase:
- AAC software that uses machine learning to support communication in different contexts.
- Switches (wired and Bluetooth) that can provide access to a communication device or iPad.
- Switch interfaces that can make a piece of hardware accessible to a switch user.
- Literacy software that includes switch-adapted literacy programs to move students from early-literacy (phonemic awareness) to later literacy skills (comprehension).
- Visual support software program that allows teachers and families to quickly and easily make visual supports to support literacy, communication, and participation in inclusive environments.
- Switch assessment software that provides training to assess switch locations and switch types.
Thank you for supporting our Redbirds in Special Education and Teachers Education!