SOMA MUKHOPADHYAY'S

RAPID PROMPTING METHOD

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What is the Rapid Prompting Method?  

RPM uses a "Teach-Ask" paradigm for eliciting responses through intensive verbal, auditory, visual and/or tactile prompts. RPM presumes competence to increase students' interest, confidence and self-esteem. Prompting competes with each student's self-stimulatory behavior, and is designed to help students initiate a response. Student responses evolve from picking up answers, to pointing, to typing and writing which reveals students' comprehension, academic abilities and eventually, conversational skills. RPM is a low-tech approach in that is requires only an instructor, student, paper and pencil. But the science behind how and why it works for some individuals is much more complex.

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Who can administer it? 

Soma® RPM is a method that through practice, patience and consistency can be used by parents and professionals with their students.

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Who can benefit from this therapy?

Although Soma's primary focus has been nonverbal students, she works also with verbal students to overcome echolalia, develop reasoning skills, and to improve their auditory learning. Many verbal students have been able to expand their expressive language by learning to spell their responses, and then learning to speak the appropriate response at the right time.

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​​Providers:

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Talk School

Services: Soma®, DIR Floortime Therapy and Sensory Integration

Where: 6 Campus Boulevard, Newtown Square, PA 19073
Call: 610.356.5566

Website: https://www.talkinc.org/rapid-prompting-method

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HALO

Goals:

The goals of HALO include the following:

• Increase the number of professionals using RPM

• To expand opportunities through scholarships that would allow more students access to attend "Camp" or Sessions with Soma at HALO that would otherwise be unable to do so.

• Offer professionals the opportunity to train under Soma through donor funded Internship or Apprentice programs

• Purchase a facility that would enable HALO to provide access to continued education, job coaching, recreation and living skills to individuals with autism and similar conditions

• To expand opportunities to students, parents and professionals information, exposure, instruction and training in Soma's Rapid Prompting Method

Where: PO Box 303399, Austin, TX 78703

Call: (512) 465-9595

Website: https://www.halo-soma.org/