Prompts (Billingsley & Romer, 1983; Snell, 1983a) are supplementary stimuli used to increase the likelihood that a student will emit a correct response in the presence of the SD (instruction), which will eventually control the behavior.  Prompts are given before or during the performance of a behavior; they help behavior occur so that the teacher can provide reinforcement. 

 

Some examples of prompts used in sessions with your child may be:

 

*verbal prompts/verbal directions

*modeling (modeling the behavior for the student so that it can be imitated)

*physical guidance (student bodily assisted through an action)

*movement cues (gesturing, looking at, touching the correct response)

*positional cues (positioning the correct choice closer to the student)

*redundancy cues (when one or more stimulus/response dimensions are paired with the correct choice (i.e. changing the color, size, or shape of the target item).