Send a text message with the AAC app
When to use this goal
For high school students whose AAC app or device can send texts and who rely on others to send messages to family, coworkers, or friends. Texting is a major way adults keep in touch and handle plans. Base the choice on the student's goals, family input, and phone safety rules.
- Baseline
- Record five situations that call for a text and whether the student sent it, asked someone to send it, or did not. Check that texting is set up and allowed, and agree on safe contacts with the family.
- Tips
- Each text-worthy situation is one opportunity, scored independent when the student sends a clear text to the right person without help writing it. Short texts and abbreviations are fine. Follow the family's and school's phone rules.
- Limits
- Opportunities vary; planned check-ins fill gaps. The goal does not cover phone safety, which needs its own plan.
Original IEP Atlas template based on general measurement principles; not copied from any goal bank. ID sl-aac-066.
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Goal
By the annual IEP review date, when a plan changes during the school or work day (such as a late bus or a changed pick-up time), the student will compose and send a text message with the AAC app or device to the right person independently in at least 4 of 5 opportunities, across 2 consecutive months, as measured by opportunity-by-opportunity data collected weekly.
Baseline: 0 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. 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 AAC & Augmentative Communication.
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
- Speech & Language - AAC & Augmentative Communication
- Baseline
- 0 of 5 opportunities.
- Annual goal366 characters
- By the annual IEP review date, when a plan changes during the school or work day (such as a late bus or a changed pick-up time), the student will compose and send a text message with the AAC app or device to the right person independently in at least 4 of 5 opportunities, across 2 consecutive months, as measured by opportunity-by-opportunity data collected weekly.
- Timeframe
- By the annual IEP review date
- Condition
- When a plan changes during the school or work day (such as a late bus or a changed pick-up time)
- Behavior
- The student will compose and send a text message with the AAC app or device to the right person independently
- Criteria
- In at least 4 of 5 opportunities, across 2 consecutive months
- Evaluation method
- Opportunity-by-opportunity data
- 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 2 consecutive months
- Collection schedule:
- weekly
- Method:
- Opportunity (trial) recording
- Data collector:
Goal: By the annual IEP review date, when a plan changes during the school or work day (such as a late bus or a changed pick-up time), the student will compose and send a text message with the AAC app or device to the right person independently in at least 4 of 5 opportunities, across 2 consecutive months, as measured by opportunity-by-opportunity data 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.