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What is Prompting?
Prompting is a big part of teaching your child new skills. Through prompting you can help your child to accomplish a given task and or an instruction. It helps your child to learn how to follow instructions and it also helps your child to be able to successfully complete a task.
Prompting is the act of helping your child to accomplish a given instruction. Prompting comes in different levels.
Full Physical Prompt (FP):
This is when you physically help your child to accomplish the task at hand
How to do a Full Physical Prompt:
- You sit on the floor with your child.
- Engage your child by saying your child’s name and or touching your child’s arm.
- Once you have your child’s attention you say“(Child’s name) clap”. Your child just sits there and looks at you.
- You take your child’s hands and clap them for him.
Partial Physical Prompt (PP):
This is when your child is able to do part of the skill but you need to assist to fully complete the task at hand.
How to do a Partial Physical Prompt:
- You sit on the floor with your child.
- Engage your child by saying your child’s name and or touching your child’s arm
- Once you have your child’s attention you say “(Child’s name) clap”. Your child lifts his hands up but stops.
- You then take your child’s hands and put them together to clap.
Gesture (G):
This is when you use a gesture to help your child to complete a given task.
How to do a Gesture
- You sit on the floor with your child.
- Engage your child by saying your child’s name and or touching your child’s arm.
- Once you have your child’s attention you say “(Child’s name) clap”. Your child just sits there.
- You show your child with a gesture to put his/her hands together.
Verbal Prompt (V):
This is when you remind your child verbally what to do after you have already given the instruction.
How to complete a Verbal Prompt
- You sit on the floor with your child.
- Engage your child by saying your child’s name and or touching your child’s arm.
- Once you have your child’s attention you say “(Child’s name) clap”, Your child just sits there.
- You tell him: “Joe clapping is putting your hands together”.
Combination Gesture/Verbal Prompt (GV):
This is a combination of a verbal and gesture prompt. You verbally instruct your child what to do while you also make gesture.
How to combine prompts
- You sit on the floor with your child.
- Engage your child by saying your child’s name and or touching your child’s arm.
- Once you have your child’s attention you say “(Child’s name) clap”. Your child just sits there.
- Tell your child :”( Child’s name) clapping is putting your hands together, while you gesture putting your hands together.
Additional Notes . . .
Prompting is a great way to make sure your child will be able to complete a task and or instruction. Prompts usually fade from one level to another while your child is learning a new skill. You will most often start with a Full Physical prompt. Over time your child will learn what to do and you can go from a Full Physical prompt to a Partial Physical prompt, to a Verbal Prompt, to a gesture and eventually your child will be able to do the task by him/herself. It might take a week, or two, a month or two or even longer but over time your child will learn a new task with the help of prompting. In the video you will see a demonstration of each prompt level.
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