resources
Resources
Books
Understanding Autism through Rapid Prompting Method – Soma Mukhopadhyay
https://www.amazon.ca/Understanding-Autism-Through-Prompting-Method/dp/1432729284
Communication Alternatives in Autism: Perspectives on Typing and Spelling Approaches for the Nonspeaking – Edlyn Vallejo Pena (Editor)
Ido in Autismland: Climbing out of autism’s silent prison – Ido Kedar
Life in letters: A book about autism – Lia Assimakapoulous
https://amazon.ca/Life-Letters-Book-About-Autism/dp/1983230162/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=life+in+letters&qid=1574530639&s=books&sr=1-1
50 Lessons for Non-Speaking and Unreliable Speaking Individuals: Lessons for Soma®RPM and other Choice Based Systems–Book 1 Lenae Crandall
Video Resources
60 minutes segment on RPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=QfT-2vEPxIA&feature=emb_logo
Online training for Soma RPM
Unlocking Voices Youtube channel: They have excellent videos for getting started with and moving through the different steps. Each video is relatively short.
https://www.youtube.com/user/Unlockinvoicesrpm
Deej Movie: The inspiring educational journey of a non-speaking autistic individual
https://www.deejmovie.com/about
Wretches and Jabberers: Two non-speaking autistic men set off on a world adventure in a spirit of advocacy and education.
https://www.wretchesandjabberers.org/
Unspoken: Documentary by and about Emma, a 15-year–old girl who types to communicate.
Research papers
Jaswal, V.K., Wayne, A. & Golino, H. Eye-tracking reveals agency in assisted autistic communication. Sci Rep 10, 7882 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64553-9
McQuiddy V, Brennan AM (2016) Occupational Therapy using Rapid Prompting Method: A Case Report. Autism Open Access 6: 165.
doi:10.4172/2165-7890.1000165
Chen GM, Yoder KJ, Ganzel BL, Goodwin MS and Belmonte MK (2012) Harnessing repetitive behaviours to engage attention and learning in a novel therapy for autism: an exploratory analysis. Front. Psychology 3:12. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00012
Websites
https://www.halo-soma.org/
http://www.acetc.info/
http://www.heedrpm.com/https://communicationfirst.org/
https://rpmontario.com/