To separate independent, prompted, and corrected responses, define Sami's natural-cue opportunity, independent window, prompt exposure, prompted correct response, error, correction, correction-trial response, self-correction, omission, refusal, and invalidity. Assign one mutually exclusive first-response code per valid opportunity. Record later correction performance separately so teaching success never replaces the evidence about the initial response.

Code the first response once

Assign one initial state per valid opportunity based on what happens first within the declared sequence. Prevent later prompts or corrections from overwriting it.

Define independence by opportunity

Independent means the accessible response occurs after the natural cue and before the planned prompt, under the ordinary supports included in the goal.

Preserve prompt level

Record the exact prompt topography, level, timing, and combined prompts for prompted correct responses. A single prompted category can hide meaningful support differences.

Separate errors and corrections

Define the initial error, correction procedure, correction opportunity, response, and consequence. Report correction learning as a separate sequence.

Protect self-correction and withdrawal

Specify when Sami can revise a response independently. Record refusal, pause, distress, and withdrawal through the applicable consent and assent process rather than as incorrect.

Use this sequence to separate independent prompted and corrected responses

Define Sami's cue, window, forms, prompts, errors, and corrections; code one first response; preserve later correction data; validate agreement; and report each denominator without overwriting history.

Build Sami's first-response and correction coding protocol

Create one versioned first-response and correction coding protocol for the community-navigation teaching review. Include Sami's priority, natural cue, accessible response, independent window, prompt topography, level, latency, sequence, escalation or fading, consequence, correction, access, health, exposure, planned and delivered prompts, first-response codes, reserved probes, integrity, agreement, invalidity, missingness, withdrawal, direct experience, burden, result, uncertainty, decision, owner, correction, and review trigger. Store only decision-relevant information with role-limited access.

Validate Sami's prompt evidence

Reproduce Sami's 14 + 10 + 4 + 3 + 3 = 34 valid first-response codes, two invalid opportunities, and 3/4 correction performance. Review natural-cue onset, independent window, prompt exposure, error, self-correction, correction-trial start, and accessible response forms. Sample agreement across every code. Confirm that refusal and withdrawal remain distinct from error and that ordinary navigation safety is preserved. Before using the categories across staff, score shared examples with pauses, partial responses, device navigation, partner clarification, and self-correction. Resolve disagreements by revising the definition, then sample agreement again under the same cue and window. Store the final examples with the current measurement version.

Keep Sami's prompting, independence, and experience separate

Measure prompt delivery and integrity with due opportunities. Measure independent, prompted, error, correction, and probe performance with their own units. Ask Sami separately about clarity, effort, comfort, usefulness, burden, and whether assessment should continue. Accurate prompting can coexist with poor fit or unwanted control. Better experience can also occur without evidence that fading caused transfer.

Work through Sami's example

Sami has 36 planned navigation opportunities. Two are invalid. Across 34 valid first responses, 14 are independent correct, 10 prompted correct, four errors, three self-corrections within the defined window, and three omissions. The categories total 34. After the four errors, three correction trials produce a correct response. Report 3/4 correction performance separately from first-response accuracy. Preserve every planned and valid unit, raw count, denominator, cue state, response code, prompt topography, level, latency, delivery, correction, access state, integrity result, probe, withdrawal, direct report, system failure, correction, and unresolved item. This fictional example demonstrates one assessment control. It offers no universal prompt hierarchy, independence, mastery, generalization, diagnosis, trait, treatment effect, legal conclusion, coverage decision, payment promise, or outcome guarantee.

Address Sami's main assessment risk

Recoding the three corrected trials as correct creates 30/34 success and hides the four initial errors. Pooling self-corrections with staff-prompted responses also erases a client-generated recovery form. Review cue and response definitions, prompt topography, latency, sequence, access, motor and sensory needs, consequence, correction, partner behavior, context, client experience, authority, and causal scope separately. High prompted accuracy cannot repair an inaccessible, burdensome, or ethically unsound arrangement.

Keep prompting concepts and authority clear for Sami

The ABAI Basic Principles page supplies broad higher-education context. The BACB Test Content Outline covers response and stimulus prompts, prompt fading, time delay, stimulus-control transfer, integrity, and evaluation as examination content. The current BACB Ethics Code addresses competence, involvement, consent and assent when applicable, medical needs, risk, data, documentation, and evaluation for covered people. These sources do not create an individualized prompt plan for Sami.

Use individualized prompt selection for Sami

The prompting decision tool organizes variables for evaluating and selecting prompting strategies. It supports explicit attention to skill, task, error history, prompt type, fading, efficiency, and context. It remains an evidence-informed decision aid rather than a universal hierarchy, legal authority, or guaranteed procedure for Sami.

Read small prompting comparisons cautiously for Sami

Libby and colleagues compared most-to-least, least-to-most, and a delayed most-to-least arrangement in small Lego-construction studies. Error and acquisition-speed patterns varied by procedure and participant. The study supplies comparison variables rather than a universal winner or expected outcome for Sami.

Expect task and participant variation for Sami

Fentress and Lerman compared prompting procedures across tasks and reported variation relevant to acquisition and prompt dependence. Narrow samples and tasks limit generalization. For Sami, report the task, natural cue, prompt history, errors, latency, independent probes, access, and client experience directly.

Preserve treatment scope, AAC, assent, and access for Sami

The CASP public summary supplies high-level ABA behavioral-health-treatment scope for autistic people, with licensed detail outside this page. ASHA's AAC portal says AAC users should always have access to their communication tools or devices. Breaux and Smith provide assent-focused guidance in an evolving evidence base. Follow governing sources and preserve communication, health care, food, water, bathroom use, mobility, rest, relationships, safety, and emergency help for Sami.

Choose Sami's next bounded action

Sami chooses which gesture and AAC forms count as independent navigation messages and asks the team to preserve self-correction time. Record the qualified owner, supporting evidence, effective date, current supports, health and access state, implementation check, accessible explanation, disagreement route, and reassessment trigger. Preserve the original assessment when cues, responses, people, systems, tasks, or preferences change. A new arrangement creates a dated version rather than an error in Sami's earlier performance.

Close Sami's prompt review

Review the first-response and correction coding protocol with Sami, the qualified behavior analyst, relevant partners, access owners, and specialists named in the manifest. Confirm that prompted performance stays separate from natural-cue control, teaching and probe denominators are reproducible, AAC and basic access remain protected, health and motor questions stay with qualified professionals, and conclusions remain bounded to the sampled response, prompt, task, people, and context. Keep this page draft and noindex until every required review is complete.

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