I firmly believe that SLPs have some of the biggest and most compassionate hearts out there. That being said, our hearts can sometimes over-rule our heads when it comes to our students. We see all of their struggles and everything we can help with...and so we try too. We write goals for skills that maybe 'nice' if they had a better handle on or were a bit stronger in, but that aren't necessarily functional for the student or the setting. Writing goals for a school setting will have some differences vs writing them in a clinic setting. In a school setting