IEP Goal Writing for Speech-Language Pathologists
As speech-language pathologists (SLPs), we have a responsibility to support the state standards. In order for students to be successful with the standards, they must have mastered specific speech-language skills. There are three objectives of this book. First, to familiarize the SLP with specific Early Learning Standards and Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the speech-language skills needed to be successful with these standards. The second objective is to outline prerequisite speech-language skills and steps to mastering those skills. The third objective, through a step-by-step process, is to write defensible IEP goals that are related to the standards.
The information and process provided in this book are based on research, fifty years of combined experience as school-based SLPs and administrators, and reviewing Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) from all over the country.
The authors developed this book as a result of reading hundreds of IEPs that had goals and objectives that were difficult to implement as written. This process has been field tested through a large metro school system with more than 175 SLPs.
1: Early Learning Standards
3. Year Olds
4. Year Olds
2: Common Core State Standards Kindergarten
3: Prerequisite Skills and Steps to Mastery
Main Idea and Details
Syntax and Morphology
Articulation and Phonological Processes
4: Writing IEP Goals
What to Include in a Goal
Criteria for Mastery
Goal Writing Worksheet
Title: IEP Goal Writing for Speech-Language Pathologists
Author: Lydia Kopel, Elissa Kilduff