Use a live caption app in conversation
When to use this goal
For students who are deaf or hard of hearing who use a speech-to-text caption app on a phone or tablet in conversations, clubs, and group work. Present levels in reading speed and device use decide fit.
- Baseline
- Track five conversations where captions would help and record whether the student used them. Ask how accurate the app was.
- Tips
- Automatic captions make errors, especially with names and noise; teach the student to ask when captions do not make sense.
- Limits
- Apps do not replace professional captioning or interpreters for instruction. Hearing technology is one access route the family and student chose; it does not replace sign language, captions, or other visual access where the student uses them.
Original IEP Atlas template based on general measurement principles; not copied from any goal bank. ID ac-ht-021.
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Goal
By the annual IEP review date, during a group conversation, club meeting, or small-group activity without an interpreter or captioner, the student will open the caption app, place the device where it picks up the speakers, and read the captions to follow and join the talk independently in at least 4 of 5 opportunities, across 3 consecutive weeks, as measured by direct observation collected weekly.
Baseline: 1 of 5 opportunities.
- Condition
- Observable behavior
- Criterion
- Measurement method
Measurability check11 of 11 met
Met: Observable behavior. Stated as an action.
Met: Condition. Stated.
Met: Unit fits the behavior. Opportunities fits this behavior.
Met: Explicit criterion. Number and unit stated.
Met: Mastery rule and schedule. Both stated.
Met: Method produces the metric. Direct observation gives opportunities data.
Met: Review timeframe. Stated.
Met: Baseline and target compatible. Same unit, change in the right direction.
Met: Aligned with area of need. Still about Hearing Technology Self-Management.
Met: Level of support. Defined.
Met: Blanks filled in. Nothing left to fill in.
Checks structure and wording only. Whether the goal fits the student is the team's call.
Short-term objectives (optional)
When are objectives required?Required for students on alternate assessments (34 CFR §300.320(a)(2)(ii)); some states require them for everyone.
Paste into your IEP system
Most district systems have a separate box for each part of a goal. Copy them one at a time, or all at once as labeled text.
- Area of need
- Vision, Hearing & Assistive Technology - Hearing Technology Self-Management
- Baseline
- 1 of 5 opportunities.
- Annual goal400 characters
- By the annual IEP review date, during a group conversation, club meeting, or small-group activity without an interpreter or captioner, the student will open the caption app, place the device where it picks up the speakers, and read the captions to follow and join the talk independently in at least 4 of 5 opportunities, across 3 consecutive weeks, as measured by direct observation collected weekly.
- Timeframe
- By the annual IEP review date
- Condition
- During a group conversation, club meeting, or small-group activity without an interpreter or captioner
- Behavior
- The student will open the caption app, place the device where it picks up the speakers, and read the captions to follow and join the talk independently
- Criteria
- In at least 4 of 5 opportunities, across 3 consecutive weeks
- Evaluation method
- Direct observation
- Schedule
- Weekly
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Matching data sheet
Opportunity tracker. One box per opportunity in each session.
Opportunity tracker
Opportunities- Student label:
- Target:
- in at least 4 of 5 opportunities
- Mastery rule:
- across 3 consecutive weeks
- Collection schedule:
- weekly
- Method:
- Direct observation
- Data collector:
Goal: By the annual IEP review date, during a group conversation, club meeting, or small-group activity without an interpreter or captioner, the student will open the caption app, place the device where it picks up the speakers, and read the captions to follow and join the talk independently in at least 4 of 5 opportunities, across 3 consecutive weeks, as measured by direct observation collected weekly.
Key: + demonstrated independently · P demonstrated with a prompt (note type) · − not demonstrated · NA no opportunity occurred
| Date | Activity / context | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | # + (of 5) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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- Record up to 5 opportunities per session, matching the goal's denominator.
- Define in advance what counts as an opportunity so every data collector records the same thing.
- Count only + marks toward the criterion unless the goal specifies prompted responses.
The CSV opens in Excel or Google Sheets, with formulas. Sheets print blank; no student data is stored.