Family Goal Setting Tool (FGST) Disability Version
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The Family Goal Setting Tool (FGST) is a child-centred, card sort scaffold developed by Autism Queensland (AQ) to help families of children with disability identify, communicate, and prioritise goals and support opportunity.
The FGST is a collaborative, family-centred planning resource designed to support families with young autistic children, from diagnosis through to the early school years. Available in two versions (one for families of children with disability and one specific to autism), the FGST provides flexible options for practitioners to facilitate collaborative goal setting across different early childhood intervention contexts. Using a structured card-sorting approach, the tool helps families identify, communicate and prioritise their goals, aspirations and support needs, ensuring their perspectives remain central to the planning process.
The FGST recognises that goal setting extends beyond the individual child to encompass the needs of the whole family. It provides a framework for exploring child-focused goals alongside the family’s need for information, guidance, support and opportunities for active participation in their community. By facilitating meaningful conversations between families and professionals, the tool helps develop a holistic understanding of what matters most and supports more personalised, relevant and meaningful goals.
Designed primarily for use within interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary early childhood intervention teams, the FGST can also be used by individual practitioners, therapists, educators, social workers, planners and case managers working with young children and their families.
Your FGST: Disability Version purchase will contain
The FGST includes 80 categorised and illustrated goal cards, helping explore interests, identify what matters most, and communicate family goals. To help guide the process, the kit includes sorting plates, goal explanation cards, a detailed user manual and quick-start guide to support therapists and facilitators, and a resource booklet with practical tips, suggested scripts, and reproducible templates for recording and planning priority goals.
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Family Goal Setting Tool (FGST): ASD Version and For Families with Children with Disabilities Version
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No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and publisher, except for the following permitted uses:
- Reproducing relevant forms, worksheets and other designated recording materials for the express purpose of documenting individual responses, experiences, goals, strategies, support needs, plans or progress associated with the use of this tool.
- Reproducing designated guidance materials, information sheets and supporting resources for the purpose of facilitating the purchaser’s use of the tool with individuals, families and relevant support networks.
- Photographing or otherwise visually documenting completed activities or material arrangements where expressly intended to record individual responses, experiences or outcomes associated with the use of this tool.
All permitted reproductions must be limited to these purposes. No other part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or adapted without the prior written permission.
Published: 2013
Rebranded: 2022
The FGST is an Aspirations Self-Determination Publication. All proceeds support AQ’s work to enrich lives and strengthen communities by empowering autistic people to reach their potential, including through research and the development of tools and strategies that support autistic and neurodivergent children, adolescents, and adults to live a life of participation, opportunity and choice.
