Visual Prompts
Using visual cues, such a picture cue when working on syntax skills can be very helpful for our students with language disorders. In addition, you can use helpful verbal prompts to help guide your student to the correct answer as well.
Long-Term Goal: Syntax Goals For Speech Therapy
Below is an IEP goal bank filled with syntax goals for my fellow Speech-Language Pathologist who is working in the school setting or private practice settings.
Expressive Language – Syntax Goals For Speech Therapy
Given a picture or story, STUDENT will usenouns to answer WHO or WHAT questions with 80% accuracy in 4 out of 5 opportunities. Given a picture or story, STUDENT will useverbs to tell actions with 80% accuracy in 4 out of 5 opportunities. Given a picture or story, STUDENT will use aprepositional phrase to answer WHERE questions with 80% accuracy in ...
Receptive Language – Syntax Goals For Speech Therapy
Given a verbal question, STUDENT will select a single word picture of thenoun that tellsWHO and WHAT with 80% accuracy in 4 out of 5 opportunities. Given a story read aloud, STUDENT will select the picture of thenoun that tellsWHO and WHAT with 80% accuracy in 4 out of 5 opportunities. Given a verbal question, STUDENT will select the picture of the...
Speech Therapy Goals – Short-Term Goal Objectives
I know every district has different ways it requires their objectives to be written, but typically my district wanted us to reduce either the number required or the percentage of achievement. Here are a few examples to help get you started. If we take a sample goal: “Given an object or picture, STUDENT will say 3 to 4-word utterances (e.g., “dog si...
Data Collections – Syntax Goals For Speech Therapy
If you’re a classroom teacher or speech pathologist in need of data tracking forms while working on your student’s syntax goals for speech therapy then be sure to check out my IEP goal data tracking for progress monitoring forms. Or if you simply want a list of data sheets to choose from then be sure to check out my list of 35 free speech therapy d...
Measurable Goals
Are you also looking for other speech goals? If so, be sure to check out my master list of IEP goals here. This list of goal setting also includes the following speech-language intervention goals: 1. Communication Device – AAC User 2. Figurative Language 3. Language Goals 4. Pragmatic Language Goals 5. Sign Language 6. Easy Onset & Slow Rate 7. Bod...
Sentence Level – Complete Sentence
Practice your child’s or student’s syntax language tasks while practicing appropriate grammar at the sentence level. 1. Scrambled Sentences FREEBIE for Google Slides™ | Distance Learningby K is for Kinderrific is a fun and interactive game to practice syntax while unscrambling sentences! 2. Flip Flop Fragments (Changing Fragments into Sentences)by ...
Complex Syntax
Here is a freebie to work on your child’s syntax word order language therapy. 1. FREE Snowy Sentence Building by Pirate Girls Education Invasion is a fun activity to practice your student’s syntax understanding as they use an interactive snowman to order words. 2. Sentence Scrambles for Speech Therapy!By Jenn Alcorn is a highly-rated game that prom...
Do you struggle to write syntax goals for speech therapy?
If you struggle to write syntax goals for speech therapy, what you’re about to read will make your life substantially easier (spoiler alert: it involves a mini-IEP goal bank). Do you have students who can’t get their ideas across and don’t “sound right” when they’re talking?
What is a 'base goal' for speech therapy?
The base goal is key, because it helps to keep you focused on the “big picture”, and helps organize you as you sort through the massive number of syntax goals for speech therapy you COULD be working on. “SStudent will say/write sentences.” IT’S THAT SIMPLE.
How can an SLP build syntax in speech therapy?
One of the best things an SLP can do to build syntax in speech therapy is to directly teach specific sentences structures; and that’s why the next four articles in the Syntax Goals for Speech Therapy will tell you exactly which sentence types to teach. According to Zipoli (2017), sentences with the following can be really difficult:
What is a language therapy goal bank?
For example the IEP goal bank I give my Language Therapy Advance students only has six base language goals at this point, and it covers most of the skills you might need to address with school age children.