Two words: Party. Animal.
Today I’m heading off to another Linky Party hosted by Jenn over at Crazy Speech World. I love these parties! Not only does it challenge me to share and I learn a ton from you but I don’t even have to clean my house for parties like these! And…data is definitely an area where too much sharing can’t happen :-).
Under Professional Practice Issues, ASHA states: “Remember, if you didn’t document it, it didn’t happen.”
I need to blow up this statement to about 400% and hang it right over my desk. Other reasons documentation is so important is because it lays out the progress (or, in some cases, no progress) for others to see. When I go to get my oil changed on my car, I want to see that oil line…so I know where my car stands. Documentation does the same….it gives me a gauge on whether this is working or I need to move onto something else.
There are lots of forms out there to use for documentation (and I’ll provide a few in this post) but I think the most important thing to remember is to actually do it. Whether it’s done on a fancy form or just a post-it note, it’s important to write down.
I keep my data in Binders. I have one HUGE binder for my IEP kiddos and another one for my students I see on intervention. Each binder is arranged by the group I see them in (that way, I’m not ferociously flipping through papers during a session). Each student has a tab for their name, a data sheet with their goals on it, and a blank piece of lined paper behind it for any subjective documentation.
You can grab up this data sheet HERE (for FREE!).
The other data form that I want to share with you is a Classroom data form for Speech Language Intervention. It is sooo hard to take good data in the classroom-believe me, I understand! Every time I do a classroom lesson to upwards of 30 students, my respect for teachers soars. Hopefully, this little guy will help. It has space for you to include the classroom, activity, whether it is a language or speech lesson, whether it is co-teach or SLP-teach, target student, level of tier, data and notes. Whew! I tried to fit as much as I could on this one form because I know I won’t take good data if I’m rustling through papers while trying to teach!
You can grab up this form HERE (for free!)
Thanks again Jenn, for hosting! Now I’m off to see what others have wrote about data! Please remember to leave feedback if you grab the freebies 🙂
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SLP Gone Wild says
July 25, 2013 at 3:00 pmLove the classroom data form! Thank you for sharing AND linking up 🙂
Jenn
Crazy Speech World
Lauren LaCour says
July 25, 2013 at 8:29 pmThese are so pretty! I especially LOVE that classroom form. It’s great for me, since I have to do inclusion with all my language kids. Thanks for sharing!
Lauren
Busy Bee Speech
CC says
July 25, 2013 at 10:02 pmI like the classroom data idea. I have a really hard time with that one!
Speech2U says
July 26, 2013 at 3:34 amYour data forms are really cute-makes it more motivating to take some data.
Kelly
Speech2u