Using Tactile Prompts to Increase Social-Communicative Skills with Children with Autism

Conclusion

A tactile prompt is a useful device for teaching children with autism spectrum disorders to make social initiations, eye contact, and responses to facial expressions. Its inconspicuousness makes it a non-stigmatizing intervention and there is some evidence that social communicative responses maintain once the tactile prompt has been faded. Teachers and therapists should use tactile prompts to increase social-communicative skills with their children with autism spectrum disorders.