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🤓 A SMARTER way to write goals
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About six years ago, I published a short e-book called Setting Goals in Aphasia Therapy. This 11-page PDF has been downloaded more than 11,500 times. 🤯 Apparently, lots of SLPs want help writing goals! 🙋♀️ One page of the e-book is a template for writing SMART goals, the kind payors want to see. Goals need to be specific, measurable, relevant, and time-bound so we know when they’ve been achieved. ✅ The template asks you helpful questions… but sometimes what you really need are ideas for what to actually write in each spot.💡 ⏰ Write Better SMART Goals... Faster!Coming up with the big, long-term goal is often the easy part. It’s the smaller therapy steps in between where many of us get stuck or end up writing the same short-term goals over and over. 🔁 That’s why we created the SMART Goal Assistant inside the Tactus Virtual Rehab Center: Instead of starting from scratch, the assistant guides you through the SMART framework in 6 quick steps and suggests therapy targets along the way, helping you build personalized goals faster. 🙌
🤝 Create goals with your patients The SMART Goal Assistant starts with their big long-term goals (the why) and helps break them into smaller, achievable steps for a realistic therapy plan. Edit however you like, then copy and paste directly into your documentation system, saving you time and effort. 🎉 🤖 Wait… is it AI? Nope. It doesn’t replace your clinical reasoning. Just select a skill area in medical speech pathology and answer the prompts using the drop-down lists. 🚀 Get Help with Goals for FreeYou can try the SMART Goal Assistant with a 3-week FREE trial of the Virtual Rehab Center. You’ll also get access to 50+ evidence-based treatments, patient education handouts, SOAP notes, and more. 👉 Start your free trial: https://tactustherapy.com/rehab/
Whether you’re a seasoned SLP or just starting out, this assistant helps turn meaningful goals into measurable ones. We’re here to help you work SMARTer, not harder. ✨ All the best, -Megan P.S. The Virtual Rehab Center now has 55+ treatments, with a new one for reading and memory coming very soon… stay tuned! |
Megan @ Tactus Therapy
I'm a speech-language pathologist & co-founder of Tactus. Tactus offers evidence-based apps for aphasia therapy and lots of free resources, articles, and education - like this newsletter. Sign up to get my updates 1-2 times a month.
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