Communication

==SAMPLE PRESENT LEVEL OF EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE, MEASURABLE ANNUAL GOAL, ANNUAL GOAL EVALUATION PLAN, AND BENCHMARKS/ SHORT TERM OBJECTIVES==

**DOMAIN: COMMUNICATION**
__PRESENT LEVEL OF EDUCATiONAL PERFORMANCE__: Sue is very talkative, but demonstrates word-finding difficulty. Observations indicate that she often says things like, "I know htat word...it's uh...it's a ...mmm..." On curriculum based vocabulary tests, she is more able to identify an item from a set of words than be able to generate the word expressively. She uses descriptive terms to talk about items rather than retrieving the correct word for the item. Sue's ability to comprehend cause and effect has increased, however her expression of cause and effect concepts is not worded correctly and does not clearly express causal links. Observations indicate that she will often answer cause and effect questions with no apparent link to the question.

__As a result of her disability,__ Sue has difficulty retrieving known words during oral language based classroom activities related to cause and effect.

__Priority Educational Need:__ to use retrieval skills and strategies to support language-based classroom activiities related to cause and effect

__MEASURABLE ANNUAL GOAL__: When presented with structured questions in oral language based classroom activities related to cause and effect, Sue will use various retrieval strategies to express target vocabulary with appropriate causal links in 8 out of 10 opportunities.

__Annual Goal Evaluation Plan__: Progress toward annual goals will be evaluated every grading period by the Speech Pathologist and the ESE teacher through analysis of data collected weekly using observation of responses to cause and effect questions.