Mastery You Can See Coming.
Every goal carries a measurable target and an 11-level cue hierarchy. Every trial you tally lands on its chart with the cue attached, and a plain badge says whether it is climbing, holding, or slipping.
- 11-level cue hierarchy
- A trend badge on every goal
- Home practice on its own line
How It Works
How a Goal Gets Measured
Write it once with its target. Everything after that is your tally. Tap a step or let it play.
Step 1 of 5
Write the Goal With Its Target
Target accuracy, target cue level, and the context it should hold in. A pick, not a paragraph.
- Templates carry all three measurable pieces; you edit the wording
- The goal title is a full sentence, written the IEP way if you want it
- Capture intensity per goal: full data, or observation only
The Problem
The IEP-Eve Data Scramble
Probe data in a binder. Progress in a spreadsheet. The graph in your head, roughly. The meeting is tomorrow.
You know if it is working. You cannot show it. The cue you gave is lost between sessions.
So “80 percent” goes on the report, and nobody can say 80 percent at what level, with what help.
“Is it working?” should never be a question you answer from memory.
What a Caseload of Goals Costs
- Clients on the caseload
- 0
- Goals each
- 0
- Goals someone will ask “is it working?” about
- 0
- Graphs you have time to draw by hand
- 0
Plain arithmetic. Sixty goals, each with a target, a cue level, and a trend, and no evening long enough to chart them from a binder.
The Day After
One Chart per Goal, Every Tally on It
The goal is the unit. Session trials, summary counts, and dated entries from paper all land on it, cue attached. Home practice sits beside it, never inside it.
Today
- Probes in a binder, progress in a spreadsheet, the graph in your head
- “80 percent” with no cue level attached
- A stalled goal noticed a month late, at the report
- A projected date you made up because the form had a box for it
With Vochella
- Every goal charted note to note from your session data, home practice on its own line
- Cued and independent counted separately on an 11-level hierarchy
- A Holding badge after three flat weeks, not a surprise at the report
- A projected mastery date fitted to your own numbers, or an honest blank
Why It Works
Why the Chart Is Worth Trusting
The Cue Rides on Every Trial
80 percent independent and 80 percent with a direct verbal cue are different facts. The chart, the note, and the report say which.
Nothing Changes Without You
The badge informs. A suggested next rung waits for you to send it. Mastery is yours to mark, and the cue level is always your call.
Honest Blanks
No badge until there are three sessions across two weeks. One data point is a guess, so the projection stays empty. A flat trend gets a sentence, not a date.
What You Get
What Is on Every Goal
An 11-level cue hierarchy
Full physical assist through independent, ordered, so the chart can show the trend toward independence.
A stimulus ladder on every trial
Isolation, syllable, word, phrase, sentence, and beyond, recorded as you tally.
Goal templates that carry the measurable parts
Target accuracy, target cue level, and context already filled in. You edit the wording.
One chart per goal, and a weekly breakdown
Session tallies, summary counts, and dated entries, probe sessions marked, cued and independent apart, with per-goal averages week over week.
A trend badge from your own numbers
Progressing, Holding, or Down 2 sessions, and Harder task when accuracy dips as you fade cues.
A projected mastery date, when the data has one
A straight-line fit on the phone’s goal screen and in the summary you copy on the web. Blank below two points, a plain sentence when the line is flat or falling.
Home practice on every goal
What is assigned and the days done this week, with Assign one tap away. When your tallies say it is time, the Home practice tab offers the next rung.
What it replaces
- The EMR and note templates$69/mo
Vochella
$129 a month, everything included
Per SLP. Less than one private session.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
I tally one goal and only watch the other two.
The tallied goal gets numbers. The watched goals are written as observation, never as a percentage. A number only appears where you actually counted.
I gave cues on some trials and not others.
Both counts appear side by side for that session. Trials tallied without a recorded cue count toward the total and toward neither bucket, so the split never invents a cue you did not record.
Vochella suggests stepping up and I disagree.
Dismiss it. The suggestion is a prefilled next level on the client’s Home practice tab. Nothing is sent unless you send it, and sending it never edits the goal.
The client has been away for three weeks.
The chart shades any gap of three weeks or more between sessions and names its length, so a dip after a break reads as a break. The badge reads the most recent sessions, so an old strong run cannot hide a recent slide.
Said Plainly
What It Does Not Do
- Predicting outcomes. The projected date is a straight line through your own numbers, nothing more, and it says so.
- Changing a goal on its own. Its target accuracy, target cue level, and status change only when you change them, and mastery is yours to mark.
- Stepping the cue level automatically. Suggestions move along the stimulus ladder; the cue you give is always your call.
- Plotting home practice on the goal chart. Home practice never lands on the chart you measured; it shows beside it as days done.
- A goal bank that writes goals for you. Templates give the structure; the clinical judgement in the wording is yours.
Questions SLPs Ask
- Where do the trials come from?
- The trials you tally in session, the summary counts you type at the end, and dated entries from a paper data sheet. Home practice is not plotted: each goal shows it on its own line, with what is assigned and the days done this week.
- What does Holding mean?
- Four or more sessions across at least three weeks without a climb of about a point a week. It is a prompt, not a verdict. A cue change or a new context is your call.
- What are the 11 cue levels?
- Full physical assist, partial physical assist, gestural cue, model, recast, expansion, direct verbal cue, indirect verbal cue, phonemic cue, semantic cue, and independent.
- Does this replace my probe data?
- It holds it. Mark a session as a probe and its trials are kept separate on the chart and preferred for the projection when there are two or more.
- Can the family see the goal chart?
- Families see goal outcomes in their portal, and the reports you choose to share. The working chart with cue levels is yours.
The Next Target, Obvious Before the Parent Asks.
Every trial on the goal, cue and level attached. A chart that answers “is it working?” without a binder.
$129 a month per SLP, everything included. Less than one private session.