A short guidance video by Ming @ Agents of Speech advising caregivers of delayed children on how to prompt effectively without being invasive. Key advice: prompt subtly ("be behind them"), avoid pulling or pushing too hard, and set respectful boundaries—technique and delivery matter more than the prompting itself.
If you allow the child to ignore you, then you would never really be able to intervene. And it's up to them then to learn this. And you don't want that to be up to them. You want it to be up to you. And it's also about the prompts. So one secret about prompting is that you don't want to pull too hard, push too hard. What you want to do is to be behind them when you're doing a receptive task, when you're prompting you behind them so that they, they don't see you push. Like, if I'm in front of you, I'm going to pull you, you're going to feel it's invasive. But if you're behind them and you push them slowly and then you help the hand like that, they can't see you. All they feel is like they're being helped out. It's all about the skill and how you prompt and not the prompting itself. Right. There are loads of things that are invasive if done the wrong way. Even, like for an adult life, if I ask you about something that is very personal, if I say it in a way that I must know or whatever, if I'm judgy about it, then you're going to find it invasive. But if I listen to you first and I ask you questions and I set a boundary, oh, you don't need to tell me if you don't want to all these, then you would feel good about it.
