Board index › Coping in life › Parents' Discussion

"RPM, The Life-Changing Method That Helped My Non-Verbal...

Page 1 of 1 [ 3 posts ] 

Previous topic | Next topic

conundrum
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 25 May 2010
Age: 44
Gender: Female
Posts: 2,922
Location: third rock from one of many suns

11 Mar 2016, 8:38 pm

...Son to 'Talk'"

http://www.parents.com/blogs/special-ne ... n-to-talk/


_________________
The existence of the leader who is wise
is barely known to those he leads.
He acts without unnecessary speech,
so that the people say,
'It happened of its own accord.' -Tao Te Ching, Verse 17


HisMom
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 27 Aug 2012
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,271

12 Mar 2016, 2:30 am

conundrum wrote:
...Son to 'Talk'"

http://www.parents.com/blogs/special-ne ... n-to-talk/



There is some concern that RPM is good, old "facilitated communication" freshly packaged and marketed as "Rapid Prompting Method". Old wine in a new bottle.


_________________
O villain, villain, smiling, damnèd villain!
My tables—meet it is I set it down
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
At least I'm sure it may be so in "Denmark".

-- Hamlet, 1.5.113-116


Ettina
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 13 Jan 2011
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Posts: 3,971

27 Mar 2016, 7:00 pm

HisMom wrote:
conundrum wrote:
...Son to 'Talk'"

http://www.parents.com/blogs/special-ne ... n-to-talk/



There is some concern that RPM is good, old "facilitated communication" freshly packaged and marketed as "Rapid Prompting Method". Old wine in a new bottle.


I think facilitated communication has gotten a bad rap, personally. There's good evidence to show that both facilitator influence and true communication can occur, and many people who start out with FC end up typing independently. Just because it has some issues doesn't mean it should be thrown out completely.

Anyway, from what I've read, RPM is completely different from FC. The only real link is that both involve teaching nonverbal autistic kids to communicate by writing. Instead of saying they can facilitate the person to type their own thoughts, RPM prompts the person to give the right answer, and then progressively fades prompts. It's really not that much different from how ABA works in its basic principles, though the application is quite different.