Is there a good site for pre-school goals?

[TriciaF]

Since we are in limbo waiting for things to happen before we can have Patrick's IEP....I have been starting to look at his goals. There are so many and I just bet that the IEP has only just soooo much room. Never having done one, I am not sure what to expect. A friend gave me a copy of her daughters from last year and it looked as though they picked about six goals in various areas....so it appears that you really have to narrrow things down. She gave me a list of goals that I guess they picked from.....the skills started very easy and then progressed. The sheet had pre-school goals written in someone's handwriting.

Our state department of education has standards on their website for each grade starting with Kindy. Here's a link in case anyone is interested.

www.state.sc.us/eoc/guides-to-scc-standards.htm

Well, I stand corrected. In exploring the site somemore...I did find preschool objectives...just hard to pull out as they are included in each different subject objective below. Mmmmmm...


www.myscschools.com/offices/cso/



Another question I have is ....I have been told by other parents that the district now has the IEP form on computer, so is the IEP form a standard, national form, or does it vary state to state? Seems to me if its available on computer....the schools and parents who weren't threatened by it could work more efficiently together before an IEP.

I kindof feel like Susan said.....I am afraid that I will miss something by not knowing whats available. It won't be the first time either. Example: In our area kids can qualify for a PCA personal care aide to come into the home during the week and help them work on self help goals. I had asked my EI about the program several times over the years and been told Patrick did not have the medical issues to qualify. But, in my moms night out group, several moms of children with autism qualified and their children did not have additional medical issues either. So....the end result was that we were qualified for 10 hours a week starting two months ago. Had I explored this further.....we could have qualified years ago. So aggravating.

[Debi]

Tricia I know there are lots and LOTS of goals~~but ususally they pick about 4-6 "global" areas and break down the goals this way. Say you have decided that you really want Patrick to be able to write his own name and phone # independently (all this will just be "for example")
Typically cause whatever will be a very important goal for you will be written something like this:
by Nov. 05 can write with hand over hand assistance and using model a certain % of time or 2 out of 5 trials (whatever team agrees)
by Feb 06 can write from a model ~~again certain % of trials
by April can complete goal as written.
So this is ONE written goal that has to be measured & accounted for~~there is nothing from preventing the team from working on a lot of activities that may not be written into the IEP goal but tie into it in some way. It's just that legally, the schools are responsible for the written, measureable goals. (The goal does not have to be mastered legally but progress must be made and there has to be a paper trail showing what the schools did for that particular goal~~the other stuff can be more informal.
Hope that makes some sense if you have something you think is a PRIME goal for Patrick post it and I'll see if I can show you how that would work out.
You can have one page of goals or 20 but to be honest it's usually best to break it down into 4/6 main goals covering different areas such as communication, math, literacy, etc.
One other thing to keep in mind is that as far as I know almost everyone uses a computer generated IEP to satisfy different legal requirements. They address things like justification for services, % of time spent in gen. ed. environment, related services etc etc. That stuff is for parents but also it's to make sure the schools are basically following state requirements for an IEP.
But the actual writing of goals is for the IEP team to work on and you can look at ALL the information on the form and make sure you agree.
Personally I think it's important to know EXACTLY how those goals are going to be measured and how often they report to YOU
What kind of timeline you are looking at to acheive goals
and not letting them basically re write the same goals over and over and over (They tried to do that in Gabe's case. )

[mome23kjnc]

iep4u.com/ is hands down the best site out there IMO. The site lets you choose very specific goals and also allows you to print out a form for the IEP that fills in your specific choices. It is a fantastic tool.

[momofrussell]

Hey.. now that seems like a really cool website. Never have seen that one. Glad you shared it!

A.

[Emilysmom]

Michelle,
Thanks for posting that website! I've been researching new info on IEP's lately and hadn't seen that one.......it will keep me busy for quite a while!!!
Susan

[laurasnowbird]

Top Ten signs ...
That you're going to have a bad IEP meeting
By Colleen F. Tomko

10. The IEP invitation lists "drive-thru" hours.

9. When you get to the meeting, the staff want to know what you are doing there.

8. They give you complimentary white flags and tissues.

7. Your child's student ID # is 666.

6. They try to convince you that the attending speech therapist really is the janitor's identical twin.

5. You find yourself explaining that...
the regs say they can use IU's for related services, not I-O-U's.

4. The special ed coordinator says 'Have we got a place for your kid".

3. They think "inclusion" is some type of venereal desease.

2. The staff is bumming because their label maker burned out.

1. You over hear the staff talking about the Least "Resisted" Environment.

[laurasnowbird]

This one has tons of information on IEP planning, a little overwhelming, but lots of good info!

www.kidstogether.org/iepd.htm

[CC]

This isn't what you really asked for BUT thought you might like reading, not very long...

www.nas.com/downsyn/preschooliep.html

The other sites listed are GREAT, I have used them both

CC ~

[momofrussell]

LOLOL.. that is funny Laura! I love #3!!!!

heehee

A.