🤔𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈: When teaching children new skills, therapists and teachers provide instruction and prompts to complete the skill.

🤓𝑩𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒇𝒊𝒕𝒔: With every additional prompt needed the child is getting repeated time to respond to requests and more practice time.

😊This least to most prompts approach is a good choice for skill assessment to determine how much of the skill the child can do independently.

😎𝑳𝑬𝑽𝑬𝑳𝑺 𝑶𝑭 𝑷𝑹𝑶𝑴𝑷𝑻𝑺:
From most to least prompting….

1. Full physical assistance
2. Partial physical prompt
3. Modelling
4. Direct verbal
5. Indirect (Verbal/Nonverbal)
6. Visual
7. Gesture
8. INDEPENDENT

😯In order for the child to become fully independent in the skill, the prompts need to decrease over time until they are no longer needed.