Struggling with students who avoid work, escalate, or shut down instead of asking for help? These Asking for Help resources are designed to explicitly teach help-seeking as a replacement skill, while giving staff clear language and tools to respond consistently. This resource supports students in learning how to ask for help, what to do while waiting for help, and how to handle “not right now” without meltdowns or escape behaviors.

⭐️ USE THIS RESOURCE TO...

• Teach Functional Communication: Help students learn how to appropriately request help instead of avoiding tasks or escalating.
  
• Reduce Problem Behavior: Replace frustration, refusal, or escape behaviors with clear, visual help-seeking strategies.
  
• Support Waiting and Tolerance: Teach students what to do while waiting for help using visual menus and calm strategies.
  
• Promote Independence: Encourage students to try first, problem-solve, and use supports before requesting adult help.
  
• Make Data-Driven Decisions: Track help requests, prompt levels, and behavior patterns to guide instruction and prompt fading
  
  

⭐️ WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS WALKING IN THIS POSTER SET...

• First-Person Social Narrative: A student-friendly social narrative written in first-person language to help students read and learn help-seeking expectations.
• Help Request Teaching Protocol: A step-by-step guide for teaching help requests using Functional Communication Training (FCT). Includes modeling, prompting, fading, and reinforcement strategies.
  
• “I Can Ask for Help” Visual Poster: Clear visuals showing what asking for help looks like, including raising a hand, waiting patiently, and using a quiet mouth.
  
• "Before I Ask for Help, I Can Try" Visual Menu: A decision-making visual that teaches students to try strategies such as working independently, checking directions, etc so that you can redirect learners who are constantly asking for help before self-initiating tasks.
  
• "While I Wait for Help" Visual Menu: Visual supports that show appropriate behaviors while waiting for adult assistance.
  
• 7 Portable "Help" Request Visual Cue Cards: Multiple visual options for requesting help, including raised hand visuals, sign language support, and speech bubble icons to use on teacher lanyards, or posted around the room or students' desk areas as easy prompts for success.
  
• Staff Scripts for Teaching Help Requests: Ready-to-use, teacher-friendly scripts for prompting, reinforcing, and redirecting help-seeking behavior.
  
• Help Request Data Tracking Sheets: Simple data sheets to track help requests, prompts, and behaviors to support progress monitoring.
  
• Tips for Teaching Help-Seeking: Practical guidance for teaching during calm moments, reinforcing attempts, and fading prompts using data.
  
  

These tools are ideal for autism classrooms, ABA programs, and special education settings focused on teaching functional behavior skills.

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