The Cognitive Goal Set for school-aged children in speech therapy is a structured collection of 20 measurable objectives designed to improve the underlying cognitive skills that support language, learning, and classroom participation.

Focus areas include attention and self-regulation, working memory, processing speed, problem-solving, reasoning, organization, and meta-cognitive strategies.

Each goal targets functional classroom and social outcomes—such as following multi-step directions, retaining and manipulating verbal information, planning and sequencing tasks, making inferences, and monitoring one’s own communication—to promote academic success and independent self-management.

Goals are written to be observable, age-appropriate, and progress-monitorable to guide therapy, collaborate with educators, and communicate gains to families.