IEP Example 4

                                     IEP for Sarah

Present Level of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance:

Sarah can use eye gaze fairly successfully to indicate her wants and needs when items are appropriately displayed so that her communication partner can tell what she is gazing at. She currently makes a grunting sound to greet others, to get attention, and to represent both yes and no. She has recently been using a four-message output device and is having some success at making choices. Sarah travels independently about the school in her power chair.

Annual Goal:  

Given an iPad with an output communication program, Sarah will use the iPad 90% of the time to express her needs.

This device will allow Sarah to use a similar device to what she is using now. The iPad will also help her express more of her opinions and thoughts by offering a large range of words, and the ability to make a complete sentence. 

IEP taken from Chapter 15, Documenting Assistive Technology Into the IEP

Penny R. Reed, Ph.D.

With contributions from numerous WATI Consultants

Updated November, 2008 K. Swenson

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