Cozy chats about speech, language and learning
Some of you are doing an excellent job with your lesson plans. I am putting some of the sections here so that you can see some great examples. Grace constructed this for part of her lesson for a young girl with an articulation disorder. Notice:…
Here are some examples of some great goals this semester. Sometimes looking at other goals help to formulate your own. Apraxia Casey wrote:Â Goal: By the end of the semester, CHILD will improve intelligibility as evidenced by the accurate production of final /g/ at the…
In the summer of 2015 students at Providence College had a project to examine communication disorders and to construct a lesson plan for a read aloud. They needed to take a trade book with a multicultural theme and prepare a 3-day lesson plan that incorporated…
Writing goals is always an art. Â It is sometimes helpful to see some examples. This semester here are some great goals. The names have all been changed except for the clinician names are real. Articulation Goals: Kristen wrote these goals Baseline level of performance: At…
Baseline: the starting point of therapy The first thing that one does prior to beginning therapy is to take baseline information to determine the most appropriate goals you should develop. I am writing this blog as some clinicians are having difficulty writing these. The American…
This is the third in a series so if you haven’t read these blogs you may want to in order to give yourself a complete picture. Developing Student Goals Some new speech and language goal examples September 2014 Developing goals is a constant process of…
Writing goals can be a difficult task. Here are some more examples of good goals. In order to have a goal you need to have baseline information as well as an understanding of language development and the curriculum that is expected at the…
 How do you know how to write goals for your students? The first thing that you need to do is to have some baseline testing that will assist you in knowing where the student is. Once you have the baseline testing evaluate what…
SMART goals are an essential part of the work of a speech and language pathologist. Here is a reference that has many resources for SMART goals. SMART goals http://prakovic.wikispaces.com/Goal+Writing We need to make SMART goals not only for our students but also for ourselves. S:…