Graduated guidance is a prompting procedure that involves providing physical prompts only as needed and immediately fading those prompts as the learner begins to initiate the response independently The practitioner shadows the learners movements providing just enough physical assistance to ensure successful completion of the task and withdrawing that assistance moment by moment as the learner demonstrates increasing independence This aligns perfectly with the BCBAs commitment to use physical prompting only as much as necessary and remove it quickly in response to the parents concerns Full physical prompting involves manually guiding the learner through the entire response Partial physical prompting involves less physical contact than full physical but still provides direct physical assistance Mosttoleast prompting is a prompt fading procedure that starts with the most intrusive prompt eg full physical and systematically moves to less intrusive prompts as the learner masters the skill