When writing the PLAAFP for your IEPs, make sure all of the information is current and that within the PLAAFP, you cover these guiding questions:
1. Description of Student: Age? Disability? Strengths? Areas of improvement?, etc.
2. Academic Functioning: Areas of academic strength? Areas of academic weakness? Data and information that supports level of academic functioning?, etc.
3. State and District-Based Assessments: Performance on the most recent assessments? Student performance on past assessments defining growth or regression?, etc.
4. Functional Performance: Routine activities of everyday living the child completes independently and with support? Leisure activies? Includes adaptive/ self-help skills and needs.
5. Social, Emotional, and Behavioral: How behavior impedes the student’s learning or the learning of others? Manage and express emotions? Socialize with peers? Adults? or Staff? Precipitating factors triggering inappropriate behaviors? Function of the student’s inappropriate behavior(s)? Strategies that are effective for improving appropriate socialization? Emotional expression and/or behavior of the student?
6. Medical, Health, and Sensory: Medications? Side effects? Taken during the school day? Diagnosed medical conditions? Environmental factors that prohibit or improve the student’s participation and performance?
7. Related Service’s Input (If applicable): Description of the related service and its connection to the student’s disability and participation in general ed and sped services? Student progress towards previous goals
8. Transportation (If applicable): Description of need for transportation? Supports required during transportation? (i.e. wheelchair? seat harness? etc)
9. Early Childhood (If applicable): Daily activities? Level of involvement and support for each of the activities? Scores on early childhood test measures.
~ Appreciated and adapted from the South West Region School District