I have a first IEP metting for my son turning 3. I am looking for some help on writing goals?

Question

Please let me know from your experince what kind of goals should be written for 3yr old

Thank You

Answer 1

At the CPSE the goals will be developed in conjunction with the other members of the committe including teachers, therapists, etc.. based soley upon your childs specific needs, i.e speech, fine and gross motor skills, socialization, emotional, behavioral, developmental, cognative, and academic needs, you should dicuss this prior to the meeting with a teacher.

Answer 2

Not nearly enough information in your post to help with this.  What are your son's strengths and weaknesses? Goals can be anything from using the potty to asking for a glass of milk.  An excellent website and newsletter for you to sign up is at http://www.wrightslaw.com   I strongly urge you to visit this site and sign up for their newsletter.

Kathi

Answer 3

what are the weaknesses??? what are the needs or the reason for services??

Answer 4

Team decisions are based on strengths and needs of an individual student and you gave no particulars, but this is a general idea for you.

Make a thorough list of your concerns about his development and areas that you think need to be worked on for each of the following categories: SOCIAL SKILLS, SELF HELP, CLASSROOM, OT, SPEECH

Refer to the list during the meeting to ensure your concerns are properly addressed. It might help to be able to say something like, "Those goals seem reasonable to me, but can we add something about his fine motor skills...." Then negotiate a solution with the team. You will be more comfortable knowing nothing is missed with your guideline as a reference.

For autistic students, things like toileting and self-help skills, attending to tasks with a minimal amount of prompts, having verbal exchanges with other kids, concrete gross motor and fine motor skills (will be able to jump 10 times in place,

will be able to cut shapes with scissors etc.)

Write "goals for consideration," in social skills, mostly as it may be the biggest area of concern, but let the team consider which ones to include, and how to measure them.

It might help to write a short agenda, or draft, for yourself, to make sure not to miss any concerns about the structure of the IEP during the meeting.

Here are a few of possible goals...

~ will engage in interactive play within a preschool game format, waiting and taking turns appropriately for at least one play exchange.

~ will participate in parts of simple familiar games, songs, fingerplays or routines by doing 1-2 actions in a large group with visual cues.

~ will participate in parts of simple familiar games, songs, fingerplays or routines by doing at least 1 action and filling in at least 3 words during a large group instructional session.

~ will follow an adult's request to wait for his turn given materials to manipulate during the waiting period for at least 2 minutes.

~ will follow a visual timer to wait for his turn with a desired object or toy in the presence of at least one peer.

~ will identify and label at least 10 common preschool vocabulary (nouns) from a field of 3 pictures.

~ will identify and label at least 5 common actions (verbs) used during preschool routines from a field of 3 pictures.

~ will follow 5 separate one-step instructions within familiar routines or events.

~ will follow 5 two-step instructions within familiar routines or events.

~ will communicate using at least 2 word, grammatically correct simple sentences to request or ask for assistance by verbalization and/or picture exchange.

~ will respond to and maintain a conversation initiated by an adult or peer with at least 1 on-topic exchange.

~ will engage in appropriate play with at least 3 novel objects or toys, combining objects in play.

~ will use at least 5 real objects functionally in play with common play scenarios.

~ will answer 5 "who" questions regarding character in a simple, familiar story read to him through verbalization and/or picture exchange.

~ will answer 5 simple "what" questions regarding actions or information presented in a simple story or in typical preschool curriculum.

~ will perform at least 2 steps of a hand washing routine independently and 1 step of a "hanging up backpack" routine.

Answer 5

Hey Sophie!  It's Shirley.

Ask for an ABLLS assessment.  This covers 29 domains and is an awesome test to derive goals from.

Answer 6

Why are you worried about writing goals?  The goals should be written as a team.  You know your child. The educators know the curriculum. The evaluation process should have discovered areas of strength and weaknesses in your child's profile.  Work with the educators to address the weakness and rely on the strengths.  You will know what area are of most concern to you and they will know how those concerns dovetail with the curriculum and they can be the architect of the goals that are created via consensus.

If your son had a medical condition and you were having a planning meeting with his physicians, would you be looking for help on writing his prescriptions or medical program?

Once the IEP is jointly developed, take it home, review it. Look at the goals that were developed and determine if they meet your needs before you sign anything.

Also keep in mind that an IEP is not carved in stone. It is a plan. If the plan is not working, it can be revised at your request or at the request of the educational professionals involved at any time...and should be.

Answer 7

we need to know a lot more-

can be anywhere from pushing a button to activate a toy to learnign teh alphabet

generally- a lot of learnign/atending skills to pre/beginning academic (shapes/colors/letters/numbers/calendar skills)