Middle School Speech Language Therapy Goal Bank
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SOCIAL SKILLS
BEHAVIOR
- NAME will use whole body listening in the classroom in 60% of opportunities.
- NAME will identify expected and unexpected behaviors in herself and in social scenarios with 70% accuracy.
- NAME will identify how his behaviors and comments make others feel in 70% of opportunities provided minimal verbal and visual cues.
- NAME will demonstrate socially expected behaviors, comments, and vocal volume in 80% of opportunities given 2 or fewer verbal or visual cues.
- When given a specific behavior, NAME will identify how it makes others feel, the consequences, and how that impacts how he feels about himself with 70% accuracy and a visual or graphic organizer.
CONVERSATION
Given written or verbal cues, NAME will initiate a conversation with a peer, ask a question, and answer a question in 80% of observed opportunities.
PROBLEM SOLVING
- NAME will use visual mapping to determine 2 or more possible outcomes to a social situation or problem, and determine which outcome would be most appropriate and why in 4 out of 5 opportunities given a familiar visual and minimal verbal cues.
- NAME will identify the size of presented or incidental problems with 80% accuracy given a familiar visual and minimal verbal cues.
- NAME will identify how to be flexible in response to a little problem in 4/5 opportunities given 1 verbal cue.
OTHER
Given a familiar visual or written cues, NAME will appropriately ask for help using a question in 70% of
observed opportunities.
Given a familiar visual and verbal cues, NAME will indicate how he is feeling and why in 60% of observed opportunities.
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LANGUAGE
EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE
- Given a picture or a series of pictures, NAME will formulate 4 or more grammatically correct sentences to tell a short narrative describing the picture in 70% of opportunities with less than 15% mazing.
- After reading a short passage, NAME will determine the main idea and explain how it is supported by key details in 80% of opportunities given a visual and/or graphic organizer.
- Given multi-paragraph, non-fiction text from her curriculum and a graphic organizer, NAME will summarize the text in her own words to demonstrate comprehension without adult support in 70% of opportunities.
- Given two pictures, STUDENT will identify 2 or more ways they are similar and 2 or more ways they are different in 80% of opportunities.
- Given a familiar graphic organizer and/or visual, STUDENT will compare and contrast two familiar items in 3-5 ways in 3 out of 4 observed opportunities.
- Given a familiar graphic organizer, STUDENT will compare and contrast two characters from grade level books in 3 out of 4 observed opportunities.
VOCABULARY
- Given a sentence containing an unknown vocabulary word, NAME will use synonym or antonym based context clues as a clue to the meaning of a word and define the word in 70% of opportunities.
- NAME will define words by category and by two or more key attributes in 80% of opportunities.
- NAME will demonstrate understanding of words, including math vocabulary terms, by relating them to their opposites (antonyms) and to words with similar but not identical meanings (synonyms) in 80% of opportunities.
- Given 1 cue, NAME will define a curricular vocabulary word using a complete sentence with correct grammar in 70% of opportunities.
NAME will explain the meaning of a multiple meaning word using context clues in 70% of opportunities given 1 verbal prompt.
Given words, NAME will be able to define age-appropriate vocabulary words using synonyms, by negation (not a…), antonyms, and by example during structured activities with 80% accuracy and minimal cues.
RECEPTIVE LANGUAGE
Given a visual and up to 1 verbal cue, NAME will use strategies (i.e., rehearsal, visualization, asking for repetitions, writing down the steps) to follow multistep directions in 70% of observed opportunities.
Given a written direction, NAME will identify the most important information in the direction and name 1 or more strategies he could use to follow the direction accurately in 80% of opportunities with minimal cues.
- NAME will independently navigate to 4 different, contextually appropriate pages within his “Group” folder within a 30 minute activity.
- Given 1 verbal cue, NAME will combine 2 or more symbols to make requests in 70% of opportunities during routine or semi-structured activities.
- Given 1 cue, NAME will use greetings on his “Social” page to respond to adults and peers in 3 out of 5 opportunities.
- When NAME wants a particular item or activity, he will use his communication device to make a specific request and bring it within 3 feet of a communication partner in 50% of observed opportunities given 1 verbal and gestural prompt.
INTELLIGIBILITY
- When not understood, NAME will independently use communication repair strategies (e.g., restate what he said, increase volume, use slow rate, stress multisyllabic words, use precise articulation) in 3 out of 4 observed opportunities.
Looking for more goal ideas? I’d recommend IEP Goal Writing for Speech-Language Pathologists. It contains tons of goal ideas linked to standards.
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