Graduated guidance is one of the foundational prompting strategies in applied behavior analysis, used across virtually every population and skill domain that BCBAs and behavior technicians encounter. Its core logic — providing the level of assistance the learner needs to succeed, no more and no less, and systematically reducing that assistance as the learner's skill develops — is elegant in its simplicity and powerful in its application.
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Join Free →A prompting procedure designed to systematically increase prompts based on learner's behavior and to promote independence through systematic reinforcement. The goal of prompting is to increase correct responses, lower frustration and allow for the learners to learn independence.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB | 1 | General |
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