You know what’s fun? Sharpening pencils, organizing a million glue sticks, and trying to explain to a five-year-old why they ...

Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie announced a $50 million donation for the creation of the Lurie Autism Institute in ...

My goal is to make your IEP process easier. There are only a few thousand people in the country who know as much about IEPs as I do. I've been an IEP/Special Education Advocate who has attended 100s ...

An abstract sentence is a sentence that expresses an idea, concept, or quality rather than something you can see, touch, or ...

Here it is, all new and rewritten. This list is new and expanded so you can focus on the Behavior IEP Goals. The “fluff” is at the bottom now. Though, I do not consider it fluff, I understand that not ...

Quite often, I hear from parents who are offered a 504 plan when they requested an IEP. I could get you really deep in the weeds with the explanation between a 504 and IEP. I don’t want to overwhelm ...

To search the contents of this IEP Goal Bank for a specific item, press Ctrl + F. Control-F also works on the PDFs. What you will find here are many lists of IEP goals. For the most part, there’s no ...

Before I get started with this list of Life Skills Goals for an IEP, I want to make one thing clear. That is, remember, IEPs are all about the “I.” Any student who has life skills listed as an area of ...

That is, you can use AT for skills besides communication. Assistive technology can assist with any skill deficit–not just communication. But AAC, by definition, is for communication only. I hope that ...

This list of Christmas Social Stories was compiled by popular request. Every year, I dig up this post and go over a couple of them with my autistic son. Social stories about Christmas are so important ...

It’s no secret that many kids with disabilities struggle socially and struggle to build and maintain friendships. When Brian tells me stories of kids at school who sound like they have a disability of ...

I will never forget this one day when Kevin was a preschooler. We had an IEP meeting, and one of his proposed math IEP goals was to be able to visualize and identify what 2 of something looks like or ...