1. Practice with the student, and physically assist if needed, with taking an empty clean plate from the table and placing it in the sink in a safe manner. Demonstrate the concept of scraping food from a plate into a trash can.
2. Continue Step 1, with the modification of using cups, utensils, and bowls.
3. In an actual after-meal setting, demonstrate to the student the actual process of clearing the table.
4. Providing physical, gestural, and verbal prompting as needed, guiding the student through the entire process. Fade the use of gestural and physicalprompting.
5. Repeat Step 4, providing only the total-task verbal prompt: "(Name), please clear the table." Use lots of verbal reinforcement for any effort