Teaching · Special Education

Less help each week, on a rule everyone follows.

Set the rule for fading and the rule for stepping back before the data come in, then log each session’s prompt level and trials. The summary reads the log and tells the next adult which level to use.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Special Education toolkit, $99 for 100 items.

The fading plan

One plan per student and skill. Use initials or a code, never a name. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Special Education$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
For each skill, the cue, strategy and fading rules, and a session log, with a clear call for the next session and the recent data behind it.
Who it is for
Special education teachers and paraprofessionals teaching daily living, communication and academic routines, and the behavior specialists and therapists who plan with them.
Format
Browser plan with a session log. Several saved records; printed with the summary or as a blank data sheet; CSV of the session log; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Special Education toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Special Education space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
Drawn for this page. Prompt fading takes the help away one step at a time, on a rule set in advance, until the skill runs on its own.

How to use it

  1. Start a record with the student’s initials or a code.
  2. Write the skill and the natural cue, and choose the fading strategy.
  3. Set the fade rule and the step-back rule.
  4. After each session, log the prompt level, correct and trials.
  5. Read the summary before the next session and use the level it names.

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What the plan is for

The hierarchy

Prompts run from the most help (full physical guidance) through partial physical, a model, a gesture and a verbal prompt to a visual cue and finally independence. Most-to-least fading starts with the help that makes success likely and steps down; least-to-most starts with the least help and adds more only when needed; time delay waits a set number of seconds before prompting so the student can respond first.

Rules prevent prompt dependence

Without a written rule, adults tend to keep helping at the same level, and the student learns to wait for the prompt. A fade rule, such as 80% correct for two sessions in a row, and a step-back rule keep fading steady and the same across adults. The numbers in the example are examples; the team sets its own.

What this form is not

It tracks one skill’s help level; it does not set goals or decide services. Records use a code, never a name, and stay in this browser.

Sources

  1. Cooper, J. O., Heron, T. E., & Heward, W. L. (2020). Applied Behavior Analysis (3rd ed.). Pearson. (Response prompts and transfer of stimulus control.)
  2. Wolery, M., Ault, M. J., & Doyle, P. M. (1992). Teaching Students with Moderate to Severe Disabilities: Use of Response Prompting Strategies. Longman.
  3. Neitzel, J., & Wolery, M. (2009). Steps for implementation: Least-to-most prompts; and Time delay. National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorders, FPG Child Development Institute, UNC.
  4. Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 34 CFR Part 99.

The example student is made up. The plan helps adults fade prompts consistently; the rules are the team’s to set. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.