Writing Rubric-Based Communication Goals for Autistic Children Watch free
Nicole Casey sitting on the floor of a therapy room with a young child, playing together with a balloon toy, a star tent and a play tunnel behind them
a free workshop

Writing Rubric-Based Communication Goals for Autistic Children

Writing communication goals for autistic children doesn’t have to be difficult. I’ll teach you a 3-step framework to write a rubric-based goal, and we’ll write one together.

In this free 45-minute training, we write a goal together for June, a four-year-old multimodal AAC user, and you’ll see why “wants and needs with 80% accuracy” falls short.

  • About 45 minutes
  • Watch anytime
  • Includes a fillable handout
  • Free

Watch the training

Free. About 45 minutes. Yours to watch whenever you’re ready.

After you sign up, you’ll go straight to the training. We’ll also email you a link so you can come back to it.

inside this training

A 3-step framework you can use right away

We walk through each step together, and you can follow along on the fillable handout.

  1. Step one

    Identify areas of need

    Start from communication functions, so the goal comes from how the child actually communicates.

  2. Step two

    Build the rubric

    Score it by level of support, not by whether a response was right or wrong.

  3. Step three

    Write the goal

    Turn the rubric into a long-term goal and objectives that compare the child to their own baseline.

At the end, I also show you The Goal Studio, the tool that writes the goal with you.

Nicole Casey, smiling and holding a tablet that shows a communication board

your teacher

I’m Nicole Casey

The Child-Led SLP

I have been a speech language pathologist for over 12 years, working exclusively with autistic children. The framework in this training comes from those years, including a lot of years when I felt unsure about writing meaningful and measurable goals.

My hope is that you leave with confidence in your ability to implement a communication rubric, and with a goal written for a student.