| These Goals
are taken from the book: Intensive Behavioral Intervention for
Young Children with Autism, Maurice and Green ~ A great book ! |
ABA GOALS
Attending
Sd: "Sit in Chair"
· will be able to sit appropriately in a variety of situations
· Climbs into a large chair, rotates body, and sits in it.
· Remains seated with-out slouching, falling to the floor, or turning away when placed in chair for 3 minutes.
· Sits well for 5 minutes.
· Remains seated in small group (2-3 children) for 10 minutes.
Eye Contact
· will give eye contact appropriately when asked to
· Sd: "Child's Name"
· Establishes eye contact in response to name only.
· Respond to his name with by stopping what he is doing, making eye contact, and turning to look at teacher upon teacher saying "Child's name".
· Sd: "Look at Me"
· Establishes eye contact in response to command "Look at me".
SD: "Come Here"
· will come to teacher in a variety of situations
· will come to teacher when asked
· will look at teacher when teacher says "Come Here"
· will respond to "Come Here" by doing so when asked by teacher.
Attend to a task
· will attend to a task independently.
· Attends to a caregiver/teacher/therapist directed activity for a period of five minutes with minimal verbal prompts while learning the material being presented.
· will work at desk for a period of 5-10 minutes on activity directed by teacher with prompts.
· Given an independent activity, Child will begin work and stay focused for 5 - 10 minutes w/no prompts.
· Assembles 30 piece interlocking puzzles independently.
· will remain focused and attentive to person giving commands or instructions.
Imitative Behavior
SD: "Do This" Non Verbal Imitation
· will imitate variety of action
· will imitate 10 gross motor actions
· will imitate 10 fine motor actions
· will imitate 5 sequences of actions
· will imitate hand and face gestures:waving 'bye-bye', clapping hands, closing eyes.
Object Manipulation
· will use a variety of objects and toys appropriately
· will imitate 10 actions with objects
· will imitate 20 action with objects and toys
· will imitate sequences of actions with objects and toys
Play Skills
Blocks
· will use block to imitate patterns and create novel objects
· will imitate block patterns of 3 and 4 blocks
· will imitate block patterns of 5 and 6 blocks
· will imitate block patterns of more than 7 block, with varying bases
· will imitate building objects with blocks
Ball Play
· will engage in appropriate ball play
· will catch a ball
· will throw a ball
· will catch and throw a ball unprompted
· will kick bounce, and roll a ball
Matching
objects
· will Match objects
· will match simple objects
· will match upper to lower case letters
Receptive language
Following instructions
· will follow instructions
· will follow one part instructions
· will follow two part instructions
· will perform multiple commands given to him by the Teacher.
Action Labels
· will receptively identify action verbs
· will receptively identify 10 action verbs in pictures
Object identification and Labeling
· will identify and label a variety of objects
· will receptively identify a wide variety of objects and labels
Letters and Numbers
· will receptively label letters and numbers
· will receptively label letters
· will receptively label numbers
Labels
· will identify forty objects independently
· will receptively identify 5 object labels
· will receptively identify 15 object labels
· will receptively identify 25 object labels
· will receptively identify 40 object labels
· will receptively identify objects in books
Color
· will receptively label color of a variety of items
· will receptively label color of objects
· will receptively label color of items in books
Point Response
· will points to objects
· will point to objects or pictures when requested independently.
· will show actions when requested to
· will show teacher actions and things by responding to "Show Me ___".
· Responds to "Show me something _______" will correctly point to colors, shapes, body parts, toys, food, animals, vehicles, people.
Expressive Language
Labels
· will identify forty objects independently
· will expressively identify 5 object labels
· will expressively identify 15 object labels
· will expressively identify 25 object labels
· will expressively identify 40 object labels
· will expressively identify objects in books
Action Labels
· will understand and use present and past tense of verbs
· will expressively identify present tense actions in pictures and of people
· will expressively label past tense actions in pictures
Color
· will expressively label color of a variety of items
· will expressively label color of objects
· will expressively label color of items in books
Animal Sounds
· will correctly discriminate between: "Who says___", What does a ___ say, and What animal says ___"
· will discriminate between "Who say ___? and What does a ___ say"
· Discrimination of all three forms of question
Imitating Speech
· will imitate sounds and words
· will imitate sounds
· will imitate words
· will greet and say bye to all caregivers and teachers and small groups of peers with appropriate eye contact (unprompted).
· Expressing Desires with 3 word utterances.
· will use 3 or more words to formulate a sentence.
· will use pronouns ''I, me, you" correctly.
· will say own name (unprompted).
Letters and Numbers
· will expressively label letters and numbers
· will expressively label letters
· will expressively label numbers
Abstract Concepts
Opposites
· will have spontaneous use of opposite concepts
· will receptively identify opposite concepts
· will expressively identify opposite concepts
Comprehension of Prepositions
· will understand and use the concepts of prepositions
· will receptively identify prepositions
· will generalize knowledge of prepositions to natural situations
Comprehension of Pronouns
· will understand and use the concept of pronouns
· will receptively identify pronouns
· will be able to receptively identify "My" or Your across a wide variety of body part, object, and clothing
Categories
· will develop categorization skills
· will match objects by category
· will receptively identify objects by category
· will expressively identify objects by category
Yes and No
· will understand and use the concepts of yes and no appropriately
· will receptively identify and use yes and no
· will expressively identify and use yes and no
Pre Reading
pre-reading skills
· will develop advanced pre-reading skills
· will sit and listen to adult telling stories for 5 minutes.
· Will sit and let adult read or tell stories for 10-15 minutes.
· Will sit and look at picture books for 3 minutes unattended .
· Will sit and let adult help him point at objects in a book for 3 minutes.
· Turns pages in a book one at a time.
Play
play games
· will develop game play and circle activity skills
· will explore environment to search for hidden objects.
· will play Hide and Seek, Peek A Boo willingly and appropriately.
· will learn to participate in circle activities by singing or imitating appropriate play.
· will learn a number of children's games such as red light green light, duck duck goose, hide and seek, ring around the rosie etc.
Toy Play
· will learn to play with toys appropriately and play pretend.
· will show more appropriate play interaction with peers.
· will learn to play appropriately with multiple toys.
· will learn to participate in real and abstract play with a peer for up to 15 minutes.
· will learn to share willingly his toys/books/puzzles as orally requested by peer or adult .
Self Help
Meal Time
· will use proper skills at meal time.
· will learn to sit appropriately at the table for entire meal.
· will learn to drinks from cup and pour from pitcher to cup properly.
· will learn to use fork and spoon properly.
Dressing and undressing
· will learn to dress and undress himself
· will learn to undress and dress himself without help.
· will learn to untie and remove his shoes and socks.
Fine Motor
Drawing
· will learn to draw
· will learn to draw with a pencil or crayon.
· will learn proper use of pencil, crayon or brush.
· will imitate lines, circles and other objects.
· Imitates a vertical line with a crayon on paper.
· Traces vertical lines.
· Traces horizontal lines.
· Copies shapes and lines.
· Copies circle, square, cross, triangle, and capital letters.
· Draws lines, figures, and objects independently when
Cut and Paint
· will cut and paint a variety of things
· will smear paint on paper.
· will snip paper with scissors.