As parents, you are always welcome to contact your speech pathologist to inquire about your student’s progress. In addition, we will meet to discuss progress and goals at least once per year at an IEP meeting. When your child receives a school report card, a progress report will also be sent for speech services. Progress on these reports is summarized using the following rating system:
How to interpret these reports:
NA.....Not Addressed: Means that the goal has not yet been targeted, usually because other goals must be met first
before this goal should be targeted.
E.......Emerging: Means that your child is performing the skills in 40% or fewer attempts. This does not mean that
your child is failing. It simply means that a new skill is developing.
P.......Progressing: Means that your child is getting better and better at using this skill. Attempts are now 40-59%
accurate.
GP....Good Progress: Means that we are really starting to get there. Attempts are now 60-79% accurate.
M......Mastered: When a child is able to perform a skill at 80% accuracy or better, the skill is considered to be
mastered.
A note about speech sound therapy:
In most cases, a child will begin working on an error sound at the isolation level. This means that they will be
practicing the sound alone, without other sounds. From this level, some will move to syllables and some straight to word level practice. Sounds often need to be addressed in different positions within a word. We may work on initial position (beginning of the word), final position (end of the word) and medial position (middle of the word). Some positions are more difficult than others. As students master each level, we increase the difficulty. For example, after mastering sounds at the word level, we then will often work at the phrase level then move to the sentence, paragraph and conversational levels.
Because of this format, you may see your child’s progress to be 80% on one goal and 30% on another. This usually means that one level (i.e. the word level) is 80% accurate but a more complex level (i.e. the sentence level) is 30% accurate. This would still indicate good progress.
before this goal should be targeted.
E.......Emerging: Means that your child is performing the skills in 40% or fewer attempts. This does not mean that
your child is failing. It simply means that a new skill is developing.
P.......Progressing: Means that your child is getting better and better at using this skill. Attempts are now 40-59%
accurate.
GP....Good Progress: Means that we are really starting to get there. Attempts are now 60-79% accurate.
M......Mastered: When a child is able to perform a skill at 80% accuracy or better, the skill is considered to be
mastered.
A note about speech sound therapy:
In most cases, a child will begin working on an error sound at the isolation level. This means that they will be
practicing the sound alone, without other sounds. From this level, some will move to syllables and some straight to word level practice. Sounds often need to be addressed in different positions within a word. We may work on initial position (beginning of the word), final position (end of the word) and medial position (middle of the word). Some positions are more difficult than others. As students master each level, we increase the difficulty. For example, after mastering sounds at the word level, we then will often work at the phrase level then move to the sentence, paragraph and conversational levels.
Because of this format, you may see your child’s progress to be 80% on one goal and 30% on another. This usually means that one level (i.e. the word level) is 80% accurate but a more complex level (i.e. the sentence level) is 30% accurate. This would still indicate good progress.