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.

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