The IEP is the foundation of the child's educational program and must be developed with care. Parents are vital team members in writing the IEP and should bring with them to the meeting their priorities for their child's goals and objectives. The first section of the IEP includes both demographic information about the child and a description of the child's strengths and needs. This section also includes results of the initial observations and testing.
Objectives are shorter-term benchmarks, designed to measure progress along the way to the goal.
They may include how much assistance the child is to be given, how accurate the child must be, how often a behavior is to be shown, etc. For children with fragile X syndrome, a number of these services are often vital. These terms are expanded upon in the section titled Intervention . The importance of the services of a speech-language pathologist and an occupational therapist will be discussed in the that section. Many school districts provide a range or continuum of placements, and the team's goal is to decide which is the most appropriate, in the least restrictive environment.