Does the IEP match the amount of time needed to meet the priorities identified for each goal?
Does the IEP include goals specific to the child's functional developmental capacities and are they designed to help the child move from one developmental level to another?
Does the IEP provide developmentally appropriate goals and activities?
Does the IEP provide appropriate and adequate individual therapies, including speech, oral-motor, occupational and physical therapy, and cognitive treatment?
Does the IEP provide augmentative communication support in a timely fashion with appropriate training of teachers and parents to help children use these supports at school and at home?
Does the IEP provide for frequent parent-team meetings to evaluate progress, make modifications, discuss problems, and allow for parent participation in the class when desired, in addition to ongoing observations?
Does the IEP provide home programs, training and guidance, materials for activities at home?
Does the IEP raise the bar? Parents and the team are responsible for ensuring that the standards or expectations in child's IEP are relatively high enough to establish advancing goals.