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MOST-TO-LEAST
A most-to-least
help strategy is a
series of two or more levels of help, arranged to provide
decreasing amounts of assistance.
This help strategy always begins with the most
help a child needs to say or do something without error (the
current need for help). Your intent should be to give your
child enough help to complete the task with few or no errors.
Over time, as your child learns the task, you will give less
and less help until she completes the task independently--with
no help at all.
Examples
of Most to Least Help
Time to Stop and Think
Can you describe the most-to-least help strategy and how
it was used in the examples?
If you would like to increase your understanding
of Most-to-Least help strategies, you can review the follwing
suggested activities:
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
Role-Play a most-to-least
help strategy with a partner pretending to be your child.
Write down some of
the skills your child needs to learn, pick one of those skills
and make a plan to use a most-to-least help strategy to assist
your child in learning that skill.
Think about how, over
time, a most-to-least help strategy could be used with the
following children
- Terrell's skill to learn: When
playing T-ball, to hit the ball off the tee. Terrell
typically holds the bat pointing downward before he swings
it and then swings in an upward arc.
- Fiona's skill to learn: Walk
without support. Fiona can pull to a standing position
and walk with support. When she has nothing to hold onto,
she "walks" on her knees. She has had routine physical
checkups that reveal no physical problems.
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