Case Studies

Strengths: What she loves:

- Gymnastics - Dancing
- Very social - Friends
- Willing to help - Gymnastics/cheer
Goals:
- Spelling/fluency
- on-task behaviors
- Grade level academics
- Attention
Concerns:
- Disorganized
- Trouble getting into the school
- Academics-below grade level
- Easily
- Spelling
Sophie - Stays in “own” world-brain freezes
 Interests: Goals:
- Special Olympics - Speech
- Theatre - -Academics
- -Boys basketball manager - -Social/Emotional
- -Multi-step directions

Strengths Concerns:
- Active - Adaptive behavior
- Well-liked - Multi-step behavior
- Athletic - Fine-motor skills
- Follows - limited in social skills

Nathan
 Goals: Interests:
- Reading/Writing
- Outbursts
- Animals
- Organization - Sports

Concerns:
- Instructions
- Outbursts
- Appropriateness
- Difficulty in
Language arts

Tommy- 2nd grade
Strengths:
- Great at math
- Can solve 5th grade word
problems
- Loves animals
 Strengths:
- Friendly Interests:
- Chess
- Well liked
- Manager cross country
- Chess
- Video games
- Video games

Goals: Weakness/Concerns
- Fluency - Memory
- Articulation - Organization
- Organization - Fluency
- Mechanics in papers - Articulation
- Mechanic of writing

Steven- 10th grade

 Strengths
- Popular
- Positive
- Optimistic
- Works to improve grades
- Extensive vocabulary
- Wealth of knowledge about certain topics

Challenges:
- Does not speak in class
- Comprehension 40-80%
- Decoding/substitution errors
- 2nd grade levels below in reading

Goals: Interests:
- Speaking - T.V.
- Comprehension - Gaming
- Fluency rate - Friends
- Oral reading - Family
John - Ancient Civilization
 Goals:
Strengths:
- Loves family - Social skills
- Behavior
- Loves teacher
- Fine motor skills
- Adult Interaction
- Comprehension
- Knows all about spiders
- Organization

Concerns:
- Taking turns Hobbies:
- Interrupting - Insects
- Transitions - Piano
- Unstructured time - Theatre
- Disorganized

Andy