Saturday, January 31, 2009

Personal / Social Goals

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IEP goals relating to personal / social skills:

***newly added items starting with #19***

1. transition from one activity to another in his/her classroom, including non-preferred activities, independently.

2. attend to a teacher-directed activity for 3-5 minutes with no more than two verbal reminders

3. follow directions related to daily routine with verbal and visual cues (such as clean up or line up)

4. stay with a group during large and small group activities (to include meals, walking within the school and play groups) with two reminders for 3-5 minutes

5. play alongside one or two peers for 15 minutes independently

6. imitate simple play schemes modeled by an adult or peer

7. add 2-3 logical events to ongoing play with peers.

8. interact with peers in play.

9. work in collaborative groups with peers in his class.

10. listen to and speak in informal conversations with peers and adults.

11. initiate interactions with peers.

12. independently demonstrate attention to group activities by participating, answering questions or recalling 2-3 events of an activity.

13. participate in cooperative groups with peers with adult facilitation.

14. initiate interactions / play with peers with adult facilitation.

15. follow the classroom routine (to include transitions to non-preferred activities) with one verbal reminder.

16. participate in role-playing opportunities in the classroom (i.e. acting out stories, puppets, etc.) with adult facilitation.

17. play with one or two peers sharing a common set of materials.

18. take on a familiar role in sociodramatic play with adult facilitiation.

19. remain with the group during transitions throughout the school day and across all school environments with fewer than 3 prompts (to include any of the following: physical guidance, gestural prompts, and visual or verbal prompt)

20. with physical assistance, participate in simple reciprocal play with a peer for at least 2 consecutive turns (with verbal prompts from an adult) such as rolling a car / ball back and forth, taking turns to put shapes in a shape sorter, at least twice a day.

21. participate by attending to non-preferred activities with physical assistance, visual cues, and/or verbal prompting for a minimum of 30 seconds 2 times per day.

22. during classroom proceedings, indicate wants / needs / choices to an adult by using words, signs, or pictures when provided a model, and physical pronmpts as needed, at least two times a day.

23. play with one or two peers sharing a common set of materials.

24. initiate play with a peer with adult facilitation.

25. take on a familiar role in sociodramatic play with adult facilitation.

26. demonstrate attention to group activities by answering questions about activities or story or by recalling 2-3 events of activity.

27. transition from preferred to non-preferred activity with one verbal reminder.
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Speech / Language Goals

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IEP goals relating to speech / language development:

1. initiate interactions with peers and adults to gain attention, make requests, or relate information.

2. engage in give and take of rudimentary conversation, maintaining topic without perseveration, for at least two exchanges.

3. identify and express basic descriptive (big/little, hot/cold) and spatial concepts (under, in front of, in, on, out, off)

4. follow two-step related and unrelated commands in a variety of structured settings.

5. express prepositions (on, under, off, behind)

6. express possessive marker 's' appropriately.

7. answer 'wh' questions about immediate and recently occurring events with picture cues.

8. use early conversation devices, using eye contact, maintaining joint attention for at least two exchanges.

9. use the pronoun "I" to refer to himself / herself appropriately.

10. initiate verbal interaction with peers.

11. maintain conversational topic with partner for 3 exchanges.

12. express age expected morpho-syntactical structures such as auxiliary verbs, copulas (forms of 'be'), and possessive markers.
(umm... maybe some of our SLP friends can help translate that one for us? I'm sure they explained it to us at the time but it's been a while)
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Articulation skills

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IEP goals relating to articulation skills:

1. participate in oral motor exercises to improve muscle strength, coordination, and control

2. improve intelligibility of connected speech and thematic vocabulary by producing developmentally appropriate sounds (p, b, m, t, d) and increasing oral movement.
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Fine Motor Skills

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IEP goals relating to fine motor development:

***newly added items starting with #12***

1. complete two-handed activities such as stringing beads, stabilizing work, unscrewing or screwing lid.

2. imitate simple lines and shapes with a variety of mediums.

3. cut paper in half with scissors.

4. use a tripod grasp independently when writing.

5. write the letters of his name, using age appropriate size and formation.

6. write own first and last names with initial capital letters, self-selected words and letters of the alphabet.

7. copy simple shapes, designs, numerals and letters.

8. draw representational pictures (person, house, tree, etc.)

9. copy lines, shapes (circle, triangle, cross, square) and letters of his name in a variety of mediums.

10. draw a person having 6-7 recognizable parts.

11. cut across a piece of paper on a line within 1/4 inch of line.

12. when given paper and a writing utensil, will make a minimum of 3 purposeful marks on the paper.

13. when given a visual model, physical and verbal prompts, imitate vertical and horizontal strokes.

14. hold writing instrument with fingers in tripod position.

15. copy lines, shapes (circle, triangle, cross, square) and letters of his name in a variety of mediums.

16. draw a person having 6-7 recognizable parts.

17. cut across a piece of paper on a line.
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Academic Skills

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IEP goals relating to developing academic skills:

***newly added items starting with #5***

1. demonstrate the concepts of one and one more through objects and actions.

2. give or select three objects.

3. add two logical events to on-going play.

4. match objects by two attributes such as color and shape.

5. point to, retrieve or touch 20 objects or pictures of common objects when presented with a command or question (ie. "touch X, where is X?") given a choice of two and a physical prompt, within the classroom setting / natural environment.
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A note on mastery of objectives

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It is important that IEP objectives, like any other goals, be specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely (SMART). Part of making the goals measurable is identifying how "mastery" of the objective will be defined.

Mastery criteria might take the form of:
- 4 out of 5 over 3 data collections
- 90% accuracy
- 85% intelligibility by XX date
- 50% over a 9 week period
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Friday, January 16, 2009

Coming soon!

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When I asked if readers would be interested in seeing some of our IEP goals as a reference, the response was positive so time permitting, I will be adding some of those here to share with other families. I know that it has been helpful for me to see other IEP goals to help me come up with ideas and suggestions to bring to our IEP meetings, especially when we were new to the process.

If you have any other ideas of what you would like to see included here, please let me know. Thanks!
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I've started adding IEP goals here, will continue to add more as time permits. These are all from our own IEP's, intended to be used as reference for other families who may be working to develop IEP goals for their own children.

I decided to group them by focus area, you can use the drop-down menu under "topics" or search to find specific areas of interest.

Some goals are similar to others, but represent a progression over time (ie. with adult facilitation, independently, etc.).

If this is helpful, or not helpful, or if you have any suggestions, feel free to email me at:
3runningincircles [at] gmail [dot] com

Thanks!
 

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