Prompting ABA - Types and examples

Textual or Pictorial
A nonverbal cue, may be textual or pictorial to show some or all of the response

• Physical prompting

• Visual Prompting

• Modeling

Using a nonverbal cue to show the correct response. Examples: point to object and look; eye gaze or increasing distance to object

• Modeling

• Gestural Prompt

• Full physical prompt

• Partial Physical prompt

Physically assisting the student to engage in response

• Physical prompt

• Gestural Prompt

• Verbal Prompt

• Modeling

verbally modeling the response or part of the response

• Physical Prompt

• Gestural Prompt

• Verbal Prompt

Placing one object closer to the student than another

• Positional Prompting

• Verbal prompting

• Gestural Prompting

• Modeling

A teacher asks the learner to pick the red card and then points to the card. What type of prompting is this?

• Verbal prompting

• Physical prompting

• Modeling

• Gestural prompting

An RBT asks the learner to begin reading time and places a book closer to the child than other items in the environment. What type of prompt is this?

• Hand over Hand Prompt

• Positional Prompt

• Model Prompt

• Gestural Prompt

The RBT guides the child's hands, leading them through the entire washing process. What type of prompt is this?

• Physical prompt

• Verbal prompt

• Gestural Prompt

• Positional prompt

After asking a student to raise their hand, the RBT raises their own hand.

• Physical prompt

• Gestural

• Modeling

• Written prompt

The RBT asks the learner to get a basketball, then says, “It's orange and round.”

• Modeling

• Physical prompt

• Gestural prompt

• Verbal prompt