Relating Related Services: Establishing Connections through Collaborative Goal Writing
Day 1 - Session 2 (10:00 AM - 11:30 AM)
Location
Holiday Inn Fargo
Speakers
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Amy Goddard - Ed.D., OTR/L, CBIS, ATP
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Charity Avery - MCD, CCC-SLP
Summary
Collaboration is an evidence-based and High Leverage Practice (McLeskey et al., 2019) and essential to ensuring student’s needs are met. As part of developing an IEP, team members must determine the student’s critical needs and develop goals based on those identified needs. Writing goals collaboratively, is a way IEP teams can leverage their collective expertise and value of OT and PT to support a student’s needs in the school setting (Arner et al., 2022). In this session, we will explore collaborative goal writing and apply concepts to anchor learning.
Learning Objectives:
• Understand purpose of goals in school-based practice
• Identify parts of a goal
• Discuss the importance of linking findings to potential collaborative goals
• Apply collaborative goal writing practices to co-construct a goal