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Rapid Prompting

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Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders

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The Rapid Prompting Method (aka RPM, Rapid Prompting, Soma® RPM, and Informative Pointing) is a teaching, therapeutic, and communication technique attributed to Soma Mukhopadhyay of the Halo-Soma Institute (Austin, TX) intended to establish independent, cognitively sophisticated pointing-, typing-, or writing-based communication in people who are nonverbal due to autism (Iversen, 2006, 2007; Mukhopadhyay, 2008). Ostensibly based on Jean Piaget’s developmental psychology (e.g., Piaget, 1930) and A. Jean Ayres’s theory of sensory integration (Ayres, 1979), Rapid Prompting is similar to the discredited intervention Facilitated Communication (FC); (Mostert, 2010) in regarding autism as being substantially an expressive disorder (Crossley, 1994), but resembles in implementation the discrete trials methods of applied behavior analysis (Maurice, Green, & Luce, 1996). The subject, who is supposedly prevented by autism from displaying potentially considerable hidden literacy,...

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Todd, J. (2013). Rapid Prompting. In: Volkmar, F.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1698-3_1896

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