Last week, we looked at some sample goals. Our job today is to quantify how to reach each of those goals. Here are last week's goals.
- An academic goal might be: John will work on an academic deficit area and an area of strength or high interest during all in home therapy sessions.
- Therapeutic goal might be: Jane will work on one preferred or mastered activity from each area she receives therapy. She will also work on an emerging skill from each type of therapy.
- Life Skills. Jim will practice a mastered life/daily living skill and will work on a new and emerging skill during each home session.
Let's look at goal 1 above.
John has a large weakness in memorizing math facts so he will do a math app over basic multiplication tables. There will be three apps chosen and they will be alternated for variety. He will practice one fact family per week using flashcards(ex. The 5's) he will play smath game or use hot dots to practice addition and subtraction facts to 20. This will be done daily.
After the math facts, he may do a preferred science activity. He will alternate between science experiments, beginning coding apps for beginning computer programming, and science kits toys such as Snap Circuits to learn about electricity or an architecture kit. The science experiments for the next week are chosen each Friday at the end of the work session from mom's pinterest board of science experiments. He will make a list of the items needed from the store to do the experiments so they.can be purchased over the weekend.
Hopefully, this gets your mind going with potential goals and how to structure them to produce success from a home program. I would love to hear how others put goals and an action plan together.
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