Statements

Mission

For this year's Invest in Your Child Campaign, we are including a purchase of additional curriculum materials for deaf education (Fingerspelling on Our Way to Reading). These kits total $2600. Any additional funds will supplement our curriculum software budget that tracks student progress individually. Email eakinpto@gmail.com with any questions.

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Eakin PTO supports a community of 1400 K-5 students, parents, teachers, and staff with everything from software and supplies to food, clothing, and events.

Background

Finding academic programs and interventions that help cater to closing the educational gap for
students who are deaf and hard of hearing is difficult. There are few programs created with fidelity that
show success within the Deaf and hard of hearing learning community.

Fingerspelling Our Way to Reading is an evidence-based intervention that is specifically designed for
deaf and hard of hearing students from kindergarten through second grade. This program supplements
any school's literacy curriculum.

Impact

Specifically, the program enhances phonological awareness of fingerspelled words, which increases expressive and receptive fingerspelling skills and identification of printed words. In addition, a Reading Comprehension program will provide additional reading opportunities using fingerspelling words in sentences and stories that are developed through each unit.

By completing the training and implementing the interventions with our students we hope to make the English language more accessible to them to assist
in their reading and comprehension literacy skills.

Needs

Statistically, students who are deaf and hard of hearing graduate high school reading on a 4th grade reading level or lower.
COST OF MATERIALS: (for one classroom)
Fingerspelling Our Way to Reading Materials Quantity Subtotal
Entry Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $366.03 
Level 1A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $388.03 
Level 1B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $335.86 
Level 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $208.86

Service Categories
Primary Category:	Education  - Parent & Teacher Groups
Secondary Category:	Education  - Elementary & Secondary Schools
Tertiary Category:	-

Areas Served

TN - Davidson