Learn about Rapid Prompting Method (RPM) and Watch Lucien's Journey to Reliable Communication

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2 жыл бұрын

Lucien Gonzalez is a teen nonspeaker who was put through years and years of kindergarten-level education because he was believed to be severely intellectually disabled. His family tried various forms of communication and AAC, but they were never able to move beyond communicating the most basic needs.
When he discovered rapid prompting method, or RPM, he worked hard to gradually develop the motor planning and self-regulating skills he needed to be able to spell to communicate. Now, he is flourishing in school and able to demonstrate who he is and more fully participate in life, connect with his family and peers, and explore and demonstrate his passions.
Many of NeuroClastic's contributors are nonspeaking autistics who gained access to reliable communication using methods that teach spelling to communicate. Other contributors are the speaking autistic parents of nonspeaking children who are learning using these methods.
We appreciate Lucien and his family for sharing this video-- originally intended to share locally-- with our audience. It demonstrates the value of presuming competence and creative, inclusive education that meets the needs of autistic learners.
#Autistic #Autism #Nonspeaker #Nonspeaking #RPM #RapidPromptingMethod #ActuallyAutistic #PresumeCompetence #CommunicationRights

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@preethiiyer2263 Жыл бұрын

Once the individual is able to point, why does the facilitator have to hold? It could be held by some sort of stand so it is not moved leaving no room for doubt that it was modified in any way.

@sjones8117 25 күн бұрын

That is an advanced skill, but yes, many move to working on a stand, typing directly into a laptop, or an ipad.

@russiasgreatestexports4026 12 күн бұрын

Because the facilitator actually directs them, it’s a false science.

@frugalinay6985 2 жыл бұрын

Oh how this made me cry. I have some hope that my David would do the same.

@balancingfromtheyin-sideou9180 2 жыл бұрын

My daughter will be starting tomorrow. His story is so inspiring

@kebabistanpk2374 Жыл бұрын

Hi. Do you need it nade a difference in your daughter's life?

@balancingfromtheyin-sideou9180 Жыл бұрын

@@kebabistanpk2374 @Kebabistan Pk it's made a huge difference. She started out with the letter board (and still uses it daily), but because of RPM, I've been able to show her school proof of her intelligence. Her school saw the videos I had of her sessions and then issued her an electronic communication device where she types out her responses. They are reevaluating her based on what she's capable of doing with it. She's going from special ed to some gen ed and some advanced now. Her school had no idea how intelligent she was because of how limited her speech was. Now they are blown away. My daughter tells me herself that RPM is the most helpful thing that she's done.

@pardonmyfrench4760 7 ай бұрын

I'm interested to see what the progress was one year later

@balancingfromtheyin-sideou9180 7 ай бұрын

@@pardonmyfrench4760 @pardonmyfrench4760 the progress has been mind blowing. I'm now able to communicate with my baby ...not only that, we learned that she is pretty brilliant....smarter than anybody I know. She knows so many things that most adults have no idea about. I can go on for hours and hours about how much this has changed our lives. She has said herself that RPM has brought her so much joy

@carefugee533 Жыл бұрын

I call them spellers, my son does it and it is hard at first but he is able to do it now

@roxanneaspogard1327 Жыл бұрын

Wow Lucien is a champion....I have done RPM for nearly 7 years - it's moved me forward in many ways. Congratulations Lucien!

@iyurvedIN 4 ай бұрын

Thankyou for sharing this. I would like to know does the child also build speech with this technique? or only communication? what other techniques are more suitable to help with child's communication and speech? Should the child also do speech therapy along with this?

@sgssergio 2 жыл бұрын

We did can improve the comunication with our son using RPM, this week he taked several class with RPM professional and she challenge him more that in our case and he response very weel all the excersices . We learned that is very important believe in the method and obvios in the child, they don't has a limits.

@bobwishart8780 9 ай бұрын

@@IcanSeeMyselfOutThanks … our grandson uses this method in private tuition.. like you - his school refuses to believe in this method or allow this method to be used in school instead they offer simplistic methods of engagement suited more to toddlers and of little or no use to his intellectual growth. Like you - they refuse to believe that he is locked in a body that refuses to cooperate with their brain - when it’s an academic exercise of course you can pontificate to others - when it’s your child believe me it focuses your attention on the possibilities… enjoy your day!

@bobwishart8780 9 ай бұрын

@@IcanSeeMyselfOutThanks what amazes me is that ,for whatever reason, those people who insist in denigrating this method, seem to be so full of their own self importance…. There are many young people who are using this method…one is Jamie Handley ….see his fathers book “Underestimating Autism “ which tracks his success also Soma the founder of RPM whose son corresponds with an American professor. Also there are studies done by a university who have proved by using a technical device, that the person using the letterboard has his eye on the letter before pointing …as for false hope ….have you thought that you might be propagating false despair? …. I suggest you continue your academic debates elsewhere and let those who are determined to give their children a chance at life, get on with it.

@pardonmyfrench4760 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting. A few questions: 1.) what are the prerequisite skills needed to do RPM? 2.) If the learner in the video could spell, comprehend questions, and had complex intraverbal behavior, why was he not successful with AAC devices or PECS? 3.) Why is the learner not initiating himself? It seems as though the behavior of spelling is under the control of someone having to place a stencil in front of him whenever responses are required. 4.) Why do you think RPM isn't considered an evidence-based procedure? Thank you!

@bobwishart8780 Жыл бұрын

You raise interesting questions. Here are a few for you to consider. 1. In what part of the video do you consider that Lucien is being manipulated to perform? 2. Which skills the tutor is using do you find unsuitable and why? 3. Do you think Lucien has benefited by partaking in these spelling to communicate courses? Re your question on evidence based research that approves of this method might l suggest you view Neurological Wellness Cenre KZfaq video where Dr Nick Smoelkoffer discusses a peer reviewed paper which proves by using an eye tracking device that these children focus on the letter before pointing….consequently disproving the assumption that the child is being manipulated into pointing to a letter of the tutor’s preference.

@pardonmyfrench4760 Жыл бұрын

@@bobwishart8780 Then please explain to me why, in another peer-reviewed scientific article (Shane and Kearns, 1994), when the subject was shown one card, and the facilitator shown a different card, then asked to help prompt the subject to label the card, the facilitator prompted the subject to spell HIS card, not what was shown to the subject. Without a doubt, shows that these are the thoughts of the facilitator, not the individual. FURTHERMORE, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association stated that FC and RPM are "a discredited technique that should not be used. There is no scientific evidence of the validity of FC, and there is extensive scientific evidence-produced over several decades and across several countries-that messages are authored by the "facilitator" rather than the person with a disability. Furthermore, there is extensive evidence of harms related to the use of FC. Information obtained through the use of FC should not be considered as the communication of the person with a disability". Pulled directly from their website. So.................what else you got?

@bobwishart8780 Жыл бұрын

@@pardonmyfrench4760 you didn’t answer my questions

@pardonmyfrench4760 Жыл бұрын

@@bobwishart8780 Because, good sir, you are talking about magic, unicorns and Santa Claus at the adults table. We science here, go back to the kiddie table. But I'll tell you what. If I super special pinkie promise to answer your questions, will you address mine? You have this tendency to stop responding when presented with actual evidence, and not emotions and biased self-reports. I really think you must be getting paid for selling this junk....why else on earth would you want people to be fooled that their loved one is actually communicating? The idea of this is for the individual to be able to communicate and express their thoughts....decades of research shows it's the facilitator's ideas, not the individual. So.....why do you want to fool people? What good does that do? It's not going to help the person with disabilities when there's no facilitator, and besides, in case you didn't see the bottom line....THE RESPONSES ARE NOT OF THE INDIVIDUAL WITH DISABILITIES, BUT OF THE PROMPTER. What do you not understand?

@sjones8117 26 күн бұрын

Here are questions for you: Why do BCBAs cling to "evidence-based" claims when the Cochrane review (among others) shows that the evidence is, at best, poor? Furthermore, how strong is the existing evidence around ABA when the conflicts of interest are taken into consideration? Hint: weak. Why, in the face of many, many research papers regarding the ways in which (many) autistic individuals demonstrate sensory and movement challenges, do behavior analysts question why some "learners" have difficulty with initiation--or even with using PECS (which, by the way, are highly restrictive)? Do you not understand the features of apraxia (motor planning, initiation, etc.)? And, you cannot deny that many autisticu individuals exhibit low muscle tone, collapsing joints, fine motor challenges. Further, with respect to initiation, you do recognize that ABA "learners" are responding to your SD, don't you? In fact, your learners are discouraged, or even prevented from moving or acting without being instructed to do so--particularly in the early stages. It's good that you are asking questions, however, you believe you already have the answers.