1. Demonstrate to the student the action to be performed and show how the water remains and that can go down the drain.
2. Physically guide the student through the entire activity until it is mastered with this assistance.
3. Continue Step 2, reducing the physical guidance to a level of gestural and verbal prompting.
4. Continue Step 3, reducing guidance to step-by-step verbal prompting.
5. Continue Step 4, fading all guidance and ending with single-task requests: "(Name), please dose the drain to the tub or sink." "(Name), please let the water out."