Personal / Social Goals

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 reminders3. 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 minutes5. play alongside one or two peers for 15 minutes independently6. imitate simple play schemes...

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Speech / Language Goals

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...

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Articulation skills

IEP goals relating to articulation skills:1. participate in oral motor exercises to improve muscle strength, coordination, and control2. improve intelligibility of connected speech and thematic vocabulary by producing developmentally appropriate sounds (p, b, m, t, d) and increasing oral movemen...

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Fine Motor Skills

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,...

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Academic Skills

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 environmen...

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A note on mastery of objectives

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 peri...

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Coming soon!

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. Thank...

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