These are examples of objectives and what you intend will happen as a result of your care. Outcomes measures help assess whether you really reached the objective. For instance, an outcomes statement for a student to be discharged from articulation intervention might be student is intelligible in all situations . Outcomes statements sound very much like objectives. The difference is that objectives are written before intervention is provided and help guide you in your treatments.
Outcomes are assessments after the intervention has been provided.
According to his teachers, he has lots of friends and is very involved in both classroom and extracurricular activities. Teachers report that his speech production is functional and that his misarticulation does not interfere with his ability to be understood in the classroom. The parents would like the student to continue to receive speech therapy. But their child has received speech therapy since kindergarten and is no longer motivated to attend speech therapy. At the IEP meeting, the speech-language pathologist recommends to the parents that their child be dismissed from speech therapy because his speech is functional, will not impact his academic, vocational, or avocational endeavors, and he is not motivated to improve his speech.