Preschool Information
When your child enters school, hopefully at the age of three, you will be
asked to meet with the school's education team and develop a teaching plan for your child.
This is called an Individual Education Plan (IEP). And that is exactly what it should be.
Individual, for your child's need. The school must provide a program that fits your
child's needs, your child does not need to fit their program. Always remember that. All
too often I hear of parents who have gone to IEP meetings where the IEP has already been
done. This is wrong. You are part of the team, you know your child best, and you have
every right to determine what your child's education program should be.
Preschool Examples of an IEP
IEP 3 year old
Goal 1: Increase receptive language skills
a) Increase understanding of verbs, adjectives, and who what and where
questions.
b) Increase receptive language by 10 months
Goal 2: Increase expressive language
skills
Goal 3: Increase auditory skills
a) will complete known linguistic message e.g. from familiar song,
story, or rhyme in 8 or 10 presentations.
b) will discriminate words in which vowels and consonants differ from
auditory input only in 18/20 presentations.
c) will attempt best vocal production of familiar names, animals,
colors, and other pre-school vocabulary
Goal 4: Improve vocal production
IEP 4 year old
Goal 1: Improve receptive language
- a) will learn at least 75 new vocabulary words in sign and speech
- b) will know a total of 100 new words singly and in phrases or sentences in sign and
speech
- c) will follow up to 3 step directions with 90% accuracy.
- d) will choose the correct picture for the following language patterns with 80% accuracy
N+V+adv., N+V+adj.+N, N+V+prep phrase
- e) will correctly answer who, what is it, how many, and what color questions in lessons
75% of the time.
- f) will correctly answer what did___do questions with a picture stimulus 60% of the
time.
Goal 2: Improve and maintain auditory skills
- a) will auditorally discriminate 20 minimal word pairs with 80% accuracy
- b) will begin to develop auditory discrimination of frequency.
Goal 3: Improve expressive language:
- a) will use complete language (N+V+Art+N) in spontaneous speech with 50% accuracy.
- b) will use an "s" plural ending during lessons with 60% accuracy without
prompts.
- c) will finish antonym/synonym pairs with 80% accuracy
- d) will use the pronouns I, my, he and she and you correctly from stimulus 75% of the
time.
Goal 4: Improve speech skills
- a) will produce /f/ in all word positions with 80% accuracy and /p/ in initial position
in bisyllabic words with 80% accuracy
- b) will continue to expand her repertoire of consonants in all word positions in
conversational speech, including production of intelligible names (i.e. family,
classmates, teachers) and core curriculum.
- c) will improve production of 2-3 syllable words using Fonator, speech viewer, picture
gallery on CD ROM increase ability to produce /b/ vs. /m/ and /t/ vs. /k/ when shown
pictures with 80% accuracy
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