Ep. 86 Speech Therapy Goals That Should Be Canceled
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What is the purpose of the episode and how do the hosts introduce neurodiversity‑affirming therapy?
What's up everyone and welcome to Making the Shift for Autistic Kids. We're an SLP couple from California with four boys. And we're here every week to bring you neuroaffirming tips, tricks, and tools. Are you ready to make the shift? Let's do this! Hello, hello, welcome to Making the Shift. If you want to talk about goals that should be canceled for autistic kids, then you are in the right place. That is what we are talking about today. You can see if you're here on video, I'm wearing my neurodiversity affirming dad's club. shirt because mine which said mom's I have outgrown, getting more and more pregnant by the day, and I am almost popping out of this one, which is Chris's. So um Need to size up for next week.
Okay, so today we are talking about goals that should be canceled. We are going to be talking about goals that are not neurodiversity affirming and what we can do instead. Now these are Goals that came directly from goal banks that are shared all the time. So what I was noticing is that on Facebook this week. I've just been really into like scrolling the feeds and looking at what people are asking. And I was noticing some people asking about goals and saying, Does anyone have any goal banks? I really want to find some new goals. And I was clicking through the goal banks that people were sharing. And these are free goals that you can get online, right? They're free goal banks. And I was just like, Oh my God, these are terrible.
These need to go away. And the fact that like they're even getting posted to be considered like I feel like if you're gonna share that, it needs to be disclaimer. A lot of these aren't neurodiversity affirming. Like a lot of these banks have different goals for, you know, receptive language, expressive language, social. And obviously it's mostly the social pragmatic goals that are the problem. But it's like I feel like need a disclaimer when we're gonna share some of these websites. So Today I am reading you goals that are straight from these websites and we're gonna talk about if they are neurodiversity affirming or not. If you are here with me live, I want you to vote if this is a goal that you would say is neurodiversity affirming or not.
And we're gonna talk about why what we could do instead. Okay, so let me pull these up. I have all of these screenshotted on my phone. Okay, so first goal. Child will label emotions and pictures with 80% accuracy. And these goals were all longer. I cut off like the, you know, the Q portions. Okay, so but the goal is child will label emotions and pictures. What do you guys think? Aurodiversity farming? Or no. Okay, I'm gonna go with this goal should be canceled. Here's why. So many of us, if you've been around, you have done those activities with kids where you hold up those huge face pictures and you're like, how's this person feeling? How do you know they're feeling that way? Oh yeah, their brows are furrowed.
They must be angry, right? The thing is that like, yes. There are certain ways to tell what people are feeling through their emotions, but the reality is that. Faces don't always Say What the emotion is. You can be so mad at someone. You could be so mad at your friend. You could be so mad at your partner and be smiling, right? Or just be like flat affect. Like they would never know that you're right. So it's just that. What we know about autistic kids is that emotions can be challenging and that labeling emotions in other people as well as identifying them in themselves and that usually and likely comes down to difficulties with interoception, which is Feeling all of the sensations within our body. Okay. Because when we are scared, we know what that feels like.
Like our heart is pounding, maybe. And we feel this tension in our shoulders. Like we have a way that our body tells us that we're scared and we can feel those things.
Why do the hosts argue that pre‑written goal banks often fail neurodiversity‑affirming standards?
And to us, we start to learn over time. Heart pounding tense shoulders equals scared. or anxious, whatever that might be. Like we don't all experience emotions in the same way. But what happens is you experience this these feelings, these sensations in your body, and then you can
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the purpose of the episode and how do the hosts introduce neurodiversity‑affirming therapy?
0:08–4:34
2
Why do the hosts argue that pre‑written goal banks often fail neurodiversity‑affirming standards?
4:34–10:12
3
Why should the goal “Child will label emotions and pictures with 80% accuracy” be canceled for autistic kids?
10:12–24:13
4
What problems arise from using “size of the problem” goals and why should they be removed?
24:13–27:31
Speakers
1 identifiedMore from The NeuroAffirm Podcast
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