Notes from an IEP Meeting
Name ______________________
Date_______________________
Strengths:
- Social / friendly
- Curious; wants to learn
- Good sense of humor
- Excellent rote memory for details and rules
- Verbal
- Auditory learner
- Able to follow directions sequentially
- Enjoys the sequence of her daily schedule
- Enjoys catalogues / pictures
- Enjoys Music
- Good food-related vocabulary
- Syntax strength
- Language / reasoning skills / logic when approached in a systematic way
- With interests she gets skills
- Wants to know why? / she wants logical reason
- Likes to be in charge
- Works well in 1-on-1 situation with valued instructor
- Responds to compliments / positives / reward system
Needs:
- Rules for eating
- Rules for personal hygiene
- Social verbal reinforcement
- Needs to hear the details, & they need to be logical
- Motivation
- More software in the class
- TA in class
- “Peer / buddy”
- One-on-one aide (a dedicated, trained aide)
- More hours of OT each week
- Token economy
- She is in a good, safe environment with good rapport with teacher, OT, speech therapist
Future Goals / Hopes:
- Self monitor / voice volume
- Better handwriting
- Better math skills
- Keyboarding skills
- Assistive tech
- Improved physical conditioning
- Self monitoring
- Health / fitness
- Increased time on task
- TEACH station (“her place” – (4-sided, enclosed) doesn’t need to be in corner of room
- Living skills
Concerns:
- Eating habits
- Better personal hygiene – i.e.: wash hands before cooking
- Attention span / focus time
- Transitions / moving throughout the day
- Visual overwhelm
Learning Style:
- Literal
- Auditory
- Rehearsing (what is ahead on the schedule, what is going to happen)
- Learns sequentially
- Movement (Use therapy ball)
- Rest / relaxation
- Reward system
- Modeling
- Giver her directions with the right words
- Logical / explanations with details and rules
- Structure
- Needs to get up during large group and take a break
- Learning in chunks of time (work 10 min / break 5 min / work 10 min / break 5 min)