I share Lily's ongoing IEP goals to help other families in their hearing journeys.
In IEP meetings, parents are always asked, "What do you want your child's goals to be?" Especially in the early years, it's extremely difficult to know what is possible, what can help my child, or what should be without spending hours researching and contacting outside professionals for guidance.
I hope by sharing our story, other families with similar journeys can use these goals as a starting place. Each goal below has a complex matrix to measure progress.
Goals:
1. Contribute to discussions without dominating, accept topic of others by adding relevant information to the conversation and ask for clarification or for confirmation if not sure of what was said.
2. Given various coping strategies, Lily will have a conversation with her peers on the playground and in the lunchroom. (These are noisy difficult listening environments)
3. Improve her ability to advocate for herself by increasing her vocabulary and understanding of the functions of the parts of her CI and FM, her responsibility for monitoring her CI and FM system and by communicating her needs with her teachers.
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