Reflection

Careful use of prompting is very important for those learners who are less likely to show independence. In connection to this course, handling students with severe and multiple impairments makes use of prompts because it is one of the only ways to help them respond correctly if the usual strategies have not worked.

In our video we used verbal and gestural prompts. If you can notice, our child’s performance is already in the higher level. As a principle in using prompts always start with the least intrusive. Since our child already has the prerequisite skills of grasping and identifying colors, all she has to do is sort it to the appropriate box. So, less prompts are needed but of course with matching praises.

            I have learned in this activity and from the reporter that prompting is something that we add to help a student respond correctly. And, it is also something we do not always want to provide for the learner to be successful.  Let’s put in mind that one of the goals of prompting is independence. If the prompt will not be removed, which is the process of fading, then the strategy is not prompting instead it is an adaptation or a modification.