1. Thursday Targeted Training Objectives: Scheduling and Collecting Data
Stacy L. Nonnemacher, Ph.D.
Senior Clinical Consultant

2. Agenda Goals and writing objectives Strategy to schedule objectives
Collecting progress data towards objectives
Reporting progress on objectives

3. Writing objectives

4. Case Study John lives with his parents His priorities are
Full time, competitive employment
Live in his own apartment
Have a girlfriend
Friends outside of the family

5. Writing Objectives (Case Study)
Goal Phrase:
Relationships
Goal Statement:
John will develop peer relationships within his community
Concerns Related to the Goal:
John does not interact with other persons in his community yet he wants friendships. He usually only frequents a bookstore.
Objectives:
Q1. When at the bookstore, John will greet the owner (e.g., hi, hello), Rich without prompting 4/5 visits.
Q2. When at the bookstore, John will start one conversation with the owner, Rich (using rehearsed conversation starters) without prompting 1 time per visit.

6. Writing Objectives (Case Study)
Goal Phrase:
Independent Living
Goal Statement:
John will increase his household skills (meal prep and chores) in preparation for living in his own apartment
Concerns Related to the Goal:
John has always relied on his parents to make meals and has never been expected to complete chores in the home.
Objectives:
Q3. One time per week, John will follow a task analysis to prepare a Crock- pot dinner with 80% independence for one quarter.
Q4. One time per week, John will complete the list of chores given to him by his mother with only one prompt to initiate tasks for 3 consecutive weeks.

7. Writing Objectives (Case Study)
Goal Phrase:
Employment
Goal Statement:
John will increase his work experience through volunteering and exploring desired job outcomes through job assessment
Concerns Related to the Goal:
John has no job experience and would need guidance to explore jobs within his desire to be a bookstore owner
Objectives:
Q5. Twice per week, John will promptly arrive at the bookstore, ask for job duties, and complete job duties with no prompts (i.e., 100% independence) for at least 3 months.
Q6. One time per week, John will engage in/attend job tryout without canceling or refusing for all job tryouts until job assessment is considered complete.

8. Case Study John receives 20 hours/week of Community Inclusion service
Job Assessment service (anticipating Job Finding and Supported Employment)
Supports Coordination

9. Writing Objectives

10. Submitting Objectives
Condition
Behavior
Criteria
When at the bookstore,
John will greet the owner (e.g., hi, hello), Rich,
without prompting 4/5 visits.
One time per week,
John will complete the list of chores given to him by his mother
with only one prompt to initiate tasks for 3 consecutive weeks.
Twice per week,
John will promptly arrive at the bookstore, ask for job duties, and complete job duties
with no prompts (i.e., 100% independence) for at least 3 months.
SCs have been trained to review objectives and may send them back to you!
Are they formatted correctly??
Do they meet BAS requirements of an objective?
Do they meet the intention of the goal?

11. Scheduling Objectives
Curriculum Matrix
Scheduling Objectives

12. What is a CM?
A quick glance at a person’s schedule and a guide to implementing objectives
Keeps all person’s supporting the participant on track and focused on that participant’s objectives
A CM can be used as a daily schedule or weekly schedule dependent on the variation of a person’s activities

13. John’s Weekly CM Q1 Greet Q2 Start Convo Q3 Crock Pot Q4 Chores Q5 Q6
Volunteer Q6
Job tryout
Mon
Collect Data
Tues
In Home
Role Play
Practice
Wed
Job Tryout
Thurs
Fri

14. Collecting Progress Data
Data Collection

15. How do we collect data? Depends on skill…
Task analysis (chained task or routine): when a skill can be broken down into multiple steps
Used for skills that are not in repertoire
Used for skills that CAN be broken into smaller steps
Discrete Instance/Trial: when a skill can be defined in a distinct behavior
Can be determined with or without prompts
Good for self-management

16. Case Study: Task Analyses
Q3. One time per week, John will follow a task analysis to prepare a Crock-pot dinner with 80% independence for one quarter. Q5. Twice per week, John will promptly arrive at the bookstore, ask for job duties, and complete job duties with no prompts (i.e., 100% independence) for at least 3 months. TASK ANALYSIS

17. Case Study: Discrete
All other objectives can be collected discretely indicating level of independence (i.e., what prompts were needed) CURRICULUM MATRIX

18. Reporting Progress on Objectives
a.k.a Quarterly Reports

19. Quarterly Reports
Reflective of participant’s progress towards objectives
Focus should be on
Criteria set
Consolidation of data (i.e., progress towards criteria)
Decision based upon progress (or lack thereof)

20. In a nutshell….

21. Team Coordination
Who “owns” the objectives (i.e., who will be collecting and reporting on the objective)?
Who will be implementing the objectives?
How is data collected?
Objectives are the minimum expectation (Skills can be practiced above and beyond what is set forth), but what is written is what needs to be monitored re: progress

22. SCHEDULE (practice and data trials)
GOALS
OBJECTIVES
INSTRUCTION
SCHEDULE (practice and data trials)
IMPLEMENT
COLLECT DATA
REPORT DATA
IT’S A FLUID PROCESS….