Guest guest Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 My son's SLP reccomended the use of a partial prompt; i.e. manually shaping his finger for a point; to facilitate pointing in some receptive id activities. is able to imitate well, and I've always thought that the order of prompting was from a full physical (hand over hand) to a partial prompt to an imitative prompt and so on. I am worried that we are moving a step back and he might then become dependent on the type of prompting suggested by the SLP. This is only his second session with her and we are working on body awareness activities. He only sees her once a week for 1/2 hour and that will soon be reduced to 1/2 hour fortnightly (my request due to financial problems). Any thoughts or comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Prue from Malaysia but now temporarily in Australia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 Prue, A therapist should always use the least intrusive form of prompt for each trial that is done, and try to fade that prompt in a next trial. If your son responds well to an imitative prompt in a specific skill, then he should probably not need any form of physical prompt. Although you should always remember to take this on a trial by trial basis. There may be times when you DO need a full physical prompt, possibly for a non-reponsive or incorrect response during errorless teaching (and you have had to do a transfer trial and error correction procedure). You may need to talk to your SLP about this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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