Instructional Prompting Systems

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Instructional Prompting Systems
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Review Prompting Types
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General Prompting Strategies

• Antecedent (Stimulus) Prompts- Prompts that come
  before the desired behavior Ex- yellow
  highlighter to read a specific word
• Response prompts- Prompts that come after an
  initial cue or request to perform a desired
  behavior Ex- student is asked to pull out their
  assignment- students sits- teacher then gives an
  indirect verbal prompt what are supposed to do
  next Jamalia

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Specific Prompting Strategies

• Most to least (Decreasing)- start with the most
  intensive prompt and move to least intensive
  prompt- decreasing assistance slowly
• Least to most (Increasing)- start with the least
  intensive prompt move to the most intensive
• Graduated Guidance-Where the teacher makes moment
  to moment judgments shadowing student for
  support but adding support when needed.

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Constant Time Delay (CTD)

• Step 1 Attention cue are you ready
• Step 2 Task Direction (verbal, written, or
  non-verbal)
• Step 3 A pre-set standard delay (4-5 sec)
• Step 4 Controlling stimulus or prompt that will
  insure the targeted behavior is completed
• Step 5 always provide a reinforcement for
  successes

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Things You need for CTD

• Standard interval of time is for student to
  respond before prompt is initiated
• Must identify initial prompt intensity
• Controlling prompt
• Prompt intensity (What level of prompting)
• What to do if the student fails to respond
• Error Correction

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CTD Example Target Behavior- Start Math Work on
Time

• Teacher lets get ready to do math
• Student pulls out workbook
• Teacher Start problem set 1
• Teacher waits 4 seconds for students to start
  work
• Students starts work with 4 seconds
• Teacher Great Job! you earn 1 point toward a
  pizza party
• When student fails to start work within 4 seconds
  teacher delivers controlling prompts of point to
  work, after student starts teacher says thank
  you good job.

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Progressive Time Delay (PTD)

• Same as previous except time is gradually
  increased
• Must consider how much you are time you are going
  to increase after how many trials
• Prompting intensity, initial prompt, failure to
  respond, error correction are also issues that
  need to be determined

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PTD Example Target behavior- Check picture
schedule before transition

• Step 1 Teacher gets student attention by ringing
  bell
• Step 2 Teacher Check your schedule
• Step 3 Teacher allows Sally two seconds to
  respond
• Step 4 Sally checks responds within two seconds
• Step 5 Great work! And Sally gets a sticker or-
• Step 5A Sally did not check her schedule and the
  teacher delivers the controlling prompt (points
  to the picture schedule) sally then responds
  correctly- thank you good job
• Each week the teacher adds time before she
  delivers the controlling prompt. This is what
  makes it progressive.

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Devise a Prompting System for these Tasks

• First time feeding (self)
• Building fluency in math facts
• Maintaining learned shopping skills in the
  grocery store
• Student struggling with math facts
• Asking a guy on date
• First time cleaning and clearing kitchen table- I
  am struggling with this
• Looking words up in the dictionary- I can never
  find the word