CB.12:4.4 - Choose support and useful accumulation deliberately

Use a reminder when remembering or noticing is the actual difficulty and the person wants that support. Agree its channel and timing, what action it should make intelligible, and how to change or end it. Combine or remove messages that compete for the same attention.

Begin with enough support for a feasible episode. Help can include a prepared example, a companion for an unfamiliar first attempt or a reliable route back to the relevant material. CB.3 supplies attainable entry and preparation; HCD supplies learning where the required action has not yet been learned.

Do not equate success without a reminder with success without every kind of support. An accessible instruction, an accommodation or an available professional can remain necessary. If independence from a particular prompt is worth testing, agree a safe, useful opportunity to reduce that prompt while preserving the other conditions. Keep the support if its continuing value justifies it.

Let repeated use leave something helpful when that serves a later need: a corrected explanation, a relevant saved example, an agreed connection or a useful personal setting. Make that accumulated result obtainable for its receiving use and preserve the relevant permissions. Its purpose is to improve the next episode; sunk effort alone is no reason to make leaving harder.

An organiser may also recognise a contribution through CB.6. Keep that response tied to the contribution and the person’s preferences. A recognition programme is neither a necessary condition for repetition nor evidence that a habit has formed.