IEP Goals and Objectives

IEP Goals and Objectives - Define what your child will achieve:

Children with disabilities have a variety of issues which may interfere with their learning. Goals and Objectives should be written to address *any* area which affects a child's ability to participate in the general education curriculum and which can be improved through specialized instruction. IDEA §300.7(a)(1) defines a child with a disability as:

"A child .. having mental retardation, a hearing impairment including deafness, a speech or language impairment, a visual impairment including blindness, serious emotional disturbance, an orthopedic impairment, autism, traumatic brain injury, an other health impairment, a specific learning disability, deaf-blindness, or multiple disabilities, and who, by reason thereof, needs special education and related services."

IDEA §300.7(a)(2)(ii)(c) includes disability definitions for Autism, Deaf-blindness concomitant hearing and visual impairments, Deafness, Emotional disturbance, Hearing impairment, Mental retardation, Multiple disabilities means concomitant impairments, Orthopedic impairment, Other health impairment, Specific learning disability, Speech or language impairment, Traumatic brain injury, and Visual impairment.

A child may have a Specific Learning Disability if he has a severe discrepancy between achievement and ability in Oral expression, Listening comprehension, Written expression, Basic reading skill, Reading comprehension, Mathematics calculation, and/or Mathematics reasoning. §300.541(a)(2)

IEP Goals are written to address any educationally-based need that adversely affects educational performance and which needs improvement to enable learning of the general curriculum. Goals and measurable objectives are critical for determining if a child is making progress in their program and are the primary means for determining if a child's needs are being appropriately met.

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Goals & Objectives