Using prompting and fading

Some of the children I work with always look for help from an adult which causes them to be less independent so a strategy I use is prompt and fade. Use prompts to guide your child to engage in a desired behavior or choose a correct answer. However, it is also important that you fade, or decrease your usage of promptings over some time. Fading your prompts will help your child engage in the desired behavior independently. It's natural to want to help your child, but don't prompt too much. Make sure you give your child chances to do things on their own.