The earliest IEP was full of goals that pertained to basic needs like:
- Engage in cooperative play
- sing and dance to music
- follows rules in imitation
- Sean will be able to make smooth transitions between activities with the use of visual cues provided by transition objects or pictures.
A transition object is something like a hat for when it was time to go to P.E. or his lunchbox for when it was time to go to the cafeteria.
They worked on food textures, dressing and verbalizing toilet needs. They also worked on matching letters to his name, copying a pegboard pattern and copying simple pictures like a tree, man, sun and house.
Sean had a journal too. Each day he was able to express himself using paper and pencil. These are some of his earliest entries:
Sean scribble scrabbled a lot in the beginning.
Page after page of intense scribble scrabbling.
Some shapes come into play.
I believe Sean was influenced by the swirl patterns on our furniture.
I see flowers, don't you?
Using good words here!
What does it mean?
I don't care what it means - it moves me!
Definition!
Daisy Doll!
Sean would go on to learn to refer to himself by name, "Sean", identify happy or sad pictures, increase repetitive and expressive language and verbalize, use gestures or pictures to ask for a specific object.
Sean's goals and successes were many. I can never thank his teachers enough for their devotion to Sean, their apparent love and patience above all patience. Thank you Mrs. Sylvia and Mrs. Livingston as well as their hard working assistants. I owe them the moon.
