How Well Does Your IEP Measure Up?
SKU: ISBN: 0966652924
The ultimate, step-by-step guide to writing IEPs that really deliver! Contains sample goals & objectives and easy-to-use, "how-to" templates for translating them into educational action. Radically different from other IEP manuals, this one comes complete with recommended teaching strategies and resources.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments.
- Foreword By David L. Holmes, Ed.D.
- Introduction By Diane Twachtman-Cullen and Jennifer Twachtman-Reilly
Part One: The Essential Elements of the IEP
- Chapter 1 Past Perspectives, Present Practices.
- Chapter 2 Present Levels of Performance.
- Chapter 3 The Underlying Conditions Governing Performance.
- Chapter 4 Methodology: Is There a Method to the Madness?
- Chapter 5 Criteria and Prompt Levels.
- Chapter 6 The Case for Generalization.
- Chapter 7 Goals and Objectives: The Heart and Soul of the IEP
- Chapter 8 Measurement, Data Collection, and Evaluation.
- Chapter 9 An IEP Potpourri: Other Considerations.
Part Two: IEP Goal and Objective Templates
- Chapter 10 Assessment and Decision Making in The Designing of Effective IEPs
- Chapter 11 Sample IEP Goal and Objective Templates for Comprehension.
- Chapter 12 Sample IEP Goal and Objective Templates for Communication, Expression, and Oral-Motor Skills
- Chapter 13 Sample IEP Goal and Objective :remplates for Social Interaction, Play, and Leisure Skills.
- Chapter 12 Sample IEP Goal and Objective Templates for Cognitive and Social-Cognitive Skills.
- Epilogue By Diane Twachtman-Cullen
- Appendix A
Recommended Educational Programming Formats - Appendix B Useful Teaching Resources.
- References
- Index
$29.95
Product Reviews
Barb Kirby, Founder and Co-owner of O.A.S.I.S., and Co-author of The OASIS Guide to Asperger Syndrome (Crown, 2001)
"This is the book every parent of a child with AS or any autism spectrum disorder needs to cut through the confusion and double-talk that too often cloud the difficult process of developing sound IEPs and educational programs for these special students. With four entire chapters devoted to writing specific IEP goals and objectives alone – complete with samples that can be used as templates - How Well Does Your IEP Measure Up? is a unique and uniquely indispensable tool to help you get it right the first time. Highly recommended!"
Dr. Cathy Pratt, Director, Indiana Resource Center for Autism, and Board of Directors, Autism Society of America
"Diane Twachtman-Cullen and Jennifer Twachtman-Reilly are to be applauded for tackling the difficult and crucial issue of designing effective individualized education program (IEP) goals. The authors supply incredibly practical and helpful hints for designing IEP goals that are both meaningful and measurable, while addressing the core areas of difficulty for students with autism spectrum disorders. As the focus on accountability in schools increases, this book will serve as a critical tool for all educators to use in designing appropriate programming for students across the autism spectrum."
Patricia Romanowski Basche, Co-owner of O.A.S.I.S., and Co-author of The OASIS Guide to Asperger Syndrome (Crown, 2001)
"Students with autism spectrum disorders have specific and unique educational, social, and psychological needs that not every school district is able or willing to meet. In the IEP process, these students are too often victimized by everything from shoddy, unmeasurable, meaningless goals and objectives to deliberate or ignorant 'misinterpretations' of IDEA and related case law. Once again, Diane Twachtman-Cullen, with Jennifer Twachtman-Reilly, has come to parents’ rescue. This book reflects a true understanding of ASDs and clearly outlines what school districts can – and should – do to meet their obligations to our kids. This is one book no parent should be without. I’ll never go to another IEP meeting without my copy!"
Lee Grossman, President, Autism Society of America
"[This] book is exceptional, timely, and much needed... Diane Twachtman-Cullen and Jennifer Twachtman-Reilly need to be congratulated for such an excellent reference book. Their work documents clearly how to marry the theory to the practical in IEP development specifically for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Their work serves as an easy to follow blueprint for designing and implementing appropriate and effective IEP programming. And it adds true benefit to the service providers and parents by providing "hands on" examples based on well conceived, proven methodologies with essential outcomes review and measure of the program’s effectiveness. This book is a must for every parent of a school age child with autism and for every service provider that works with children with ASD."