A Few Sample Goals and Objectives from Dave Sherman's Book Autism: Asserting Your Child's Rights to a Special Education coming out Fall of 2006. Sample Goal no. 1 Receptive Language Present Level of Performance:Billy, a 4 year old, knows only around 40 words. Most of the words are nouns. Billy, only knows 5 verbs - go, come, stop, run, and walk. He knows only 2 adjectives - big and little. The remaining words that Billy understands are nouns such as Daddy, Mommy, dog, bed, etc. Annual Goal and Objective: Billy will expend his vocabulary and learn new nouns, verbs and adjectives and will learn to join words. By the end of the school year, Billy will increase his vocabulary to 300 words and will be able to understand two words in sequence such as big dog, blue chair, go car, boy jump. Billy will be tested using pictures and will respond correctly 8 out of 10 times....... http://www.aboutautismlaw.com/goals_objectives_autism.html