Answer peers with their AAC device during social time
When to use this goal
For older students who use AAC and have significant support needs, and whose device is used mostly with adults for requests. Present levels in AAC use decide fit. Responses can be a single symbol, a stored phrase, a typed message, or a gesture or sign the peer understands.
- Baseline
- Record peer questions and comments to the student across 2 or 3 social times and how the student responded (device, gesture, no response). Check which age-respectful topics (music, sports, shows, plans) are on the device.
- Tips
- Each peer bid is an opportunity. Any mode the peer understands counts. Train peers to wait 10 seconds and to talk to the student, not to the adult. Add age-matched vocabulary and slang the peer group uses.
- Limits
- Peer bids vary in number; count them. The goal does not measure device skill alone, which belongs with SLP goals.
Original IEP Atlas template based on general measurement principles; not copied from any goal bank. ID se-peer-054.
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Goal
By the annual IEP review date, during a peer network lunch or social time with same-age peers, the student will respond to a peer's question or comment using their AAC device, sign, or gesture independently in at least 6 of 8 opportunities, across 3 consecutive weeks, as measured by opportunity-by-opportunity data collected twice weekly.
Baseline: 2 of 8 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. Opportunity (trial) recording 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 Peer Interaction.
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
- Social-Emotional & Communication - Peer Interaction
- Baseline
- 2 of 8 opportunities.
- Annual goal339 characters
- By the annual IEP review date, during a peer network lunch or social time with same-age peers, the student will respond to a peer's question or comment using their AAC device, sign, or gesture independently in at least 6 of 8 opportunities, across 3 consecutive weeks, as measured by opportunity-by-opportunity data collected twice weekly.
- Timeframe
- By the annual IEP review date
- Condition
- During a peer network lunch or social time with same-age peers
- Behavior
- The student will respond to a peer's question or comment using their AAC device, sign, or gesture independently
- Criteria
- In at least 6 of 8 opportunities, across 3 consecutive weeks
- Evaluation method
- Opportunity-by-opportunity data
- Schedule
- Twice 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 6 of 8 opportunities
- Mastery rule:
- across 3 consecutive weeks
- Collection schedule:
- twice weekly
- Method:
- Opportunity (trial) recording
- Data collector:
Goal: By the annual IEP review date, during a peer network lunch or social time with same-age peers, the student will respond to a peer's question or comment using their AAC device, sign, or gesture independently in at least 6 of 8 opportunities, across 3 consecutive weeks, as measured by opportunity-by-opportunity data collected twice 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 | 6 | 7 | 8 | # + (of 8) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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- Record up to 8 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.