Cognitive Curriculum for Students with Traumatic Brain Injury: Cueing -- SHNIC Educators Information

Throughout this curriculum guide, goals and objectives will make reference to various types of cues. The following is a guide to the types of cues referred to in the Cognitive Curriculum for Students with TBI, along with their definitions.

Physical:

• hand-over-hand: physical guidance given through the task.
• tactile cueing: gentle touch to direct movement, behavior or cognition.

Visual:

• modeling: therapist or teacher demonstrates expected performance.
• gesture: facial expression or bodily movement that conveys meaning.
• pictorial: picture to elicit desired response.

Verbal Prompts:

• phonemic: first sound or rhyming word is given.
• multiple choice
• true/false
• probing questions: asking "wh" questions.
• concrete: explicit directions.
• abstract directions: directions requiring an inference.
• verbal modeling: therapist or teacher demonstrates expected verbal response.
• semantic: contextual, associative, defining information given.

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