Occupational therapy goals examples, one shortcut away

This pack turns the occupational therapy goals examples PDF you keep open into goal frames you can reuse, written in COAST and SMART formats for pediatric, school, skilled nursing and feeding caseloads. Type a shortcut in your EMR, Google Docs or the IEP system and the goal appears, with this client's task, assist level and timeframe picked from drop-down menus.

What's inside

• /fmgoal: a pediatric fine motor goal. Pick the task (cutting, buttons, handwriting, grasp), the cue level and trials, and tick baseline to add where the child is today.
• /schoolgoal: an OT IEP goal for school skills, with the classroom context, accuracy, opportunities, cues and how you will measure it. Good for OT IEP goals examples for fine motor and handwriting.
• /snfgoal: an SNF ADL goal. Set today's assist level and the goal level; the LTG date follows from the start of care and the STG steps one level up at the halfway date.
• A sensory regulation goal (/sensgoal) with a checklist of strategies.
• A feeding goal (/feedgoal) with texture, bites, assist level and sessions.

Shorter snippets for goal writing

• /coast: COAST goals for occupational therapy in one line: occupation, assist level, timeline.
• /stg: a short-term goal toward the LTG.
• An assist level clause (/assist).
• /gprog and /gmet: the progress sentence and the goal-met line for progress notes and recerts.

Measurable, still individual

The frame repeats; the client's task, level and criterion do not. Edit the menus to match your caseload, and use the same fields for SMART goals in occupational therapy.

Use /snfgoal or /fmgoal for your next plan of care. Then save one goal you write often as your own snippet: /coast is a good first one, and it takes seconds instead of retyping the same frame.