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[quote=Anonymous]This undoubtedly varies by level/grade so FWIW, this is my opinion as an upper elementary self-contained teacher (Enhanced Autism)

I struggle with justifying more than two goals per area of need (and really prefer to have just one). I’ve had students with 30+ goals (short term objectives included) and it’s impossible to give them access to the gen Ed curriculum. It’s a challenge to teach *anything* new - seems like all time with them is spent on running trials and collecting data (might be different in a 1:1 setting but if you have 7 other students to teach…)

I always write an encoding goal for any student that has a decoding goal (and yes, I know they are separate skills). I’ve found that focusing only on decoding often leaves gaps in writing.

I push back hard on requests for reading comprehension goals when students have a decoding goal. It’s just not practical, or fair, to expect a student to comprehend a passage when their cognitive load is focused on reading the individual words. A listening comprehension goal is sometimes a good compromise, but I don’t really consider that a “reading” goal.

The writing, attention, advocacy are all separate areas of need. [/quote]

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