Prompting

Prompting is a form of support used to assist a student to demonstrate a skill or behaviour in response to an instruction or naturally occurring condition or event (eg morning tea bell, teacher instruction). The ultimate goal of prompting is for the student to be able to demonstrate a skill or behaviour independently (or as independently as possible). Following are examples of prompts, listed hierarchically from a lower level to a higher level of prompting:

• gestures
• verbal prompts (ie saying what to do and how to do it. This is in addition to an instruction or suggestion)
• pictorial prompts (these must be pictures that the student is able to interpret)
• modelling (ie demonstrating the skill or behaviour)
• physical prompts (examples of a decreasing level of physical prompts are a follows, providing: full physical assistance→support at the hand→physical support at the wrist→physical support at the elbow→physical support at the elbow for the initial part of the movement). Physical prompts are often paired with a lower level of prompt.

 (NSW Board of Studies, 2011, Communication, p.76)

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