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Rapid Prompting

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The Rapid Prompting method (aka RPM, Rapid Prompting, Soma® RPM, Informative Pointing, Spelling to Communicate, and S2C) 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 (Friðriksson 2009; 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; Todd 2015; Tostanoski et al. 2014) in regarding autism as being substantially an expressive disorder (Crossley 1994), but superficially resembles in implementation the discrete trials methods of applied behavior analysis (ABA; Maurice et al. 1996). The subject, who is supposedly prevented by...

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    James T. Todd

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Todd, J.T. (2017). Rapid Prompting. In: Volkmar, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6435-8_1896-8

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