Developing Motor Skills for Autism Using Rapid Prompting Method: Steps to Improving Motor Function
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (545 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1478728418 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 356 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Growing one's skill beyond pointing is an essential goal of RPM. - Such is a state that can make living least enjoyable. Imagine living in a body where your coordination fails to execute a specific mental command: Let's say your mind wants your hands to execute a function like holding a pencil to write a word, but all the motor coordination allows you to do is simply make a pencil mark. So there needs to be step-by-step lesson plan on how to achieve each goal. It goes a step further to experience the world through the principles of Rapid Prompting Method.. The external world, including one's own body, is a three dimensional space. Otherwise, a 'Skill-plateau' may lead to further frustration if the mind is unable to direct the body to manipulate its environment. Just as it is important for the mind to be stimulated through academics and communication, it is important for the body to continue learning skills so that "Mind and Body" find a way to unify. To manipulate it one has to overcome selective activities (stims or OCDs). A plateau in cognition can make one feel stagnant. Imagine, if you can, wanting to be functionally independent and yet the body movements you make are beyond your mind's control. This book is an earnest effort in "how" to plan the first skill goals that go beyond pointing skills. So why wouldn't a plateau in developing skills make one feel "stuck"? Communication skills on a letter-board or a key-board is essentially the same motor ski
. Students come from all over the world to benefit from her innovative teaching approach. About the Author Soma Mukhopadhyay is the Executive Director of Education for HALO (Helping Autism through Learning & Outreach) in Austin, TX. Since developing the Rapid Prompting Method to teach her own son Tito, Soma has been featured on CNN International, 60 Minutes II, PBS, BBC and Good Morning America, and in the New York Times newspaper, People, Scientific American and National Geographic magazines. Soma holds a Bachelors of Education degree and a Masters degree in Chemistry
"An extremely practical guide for anyone who is trying to help someone with autism make body/brain connections" according to STAR LLC. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is working in the trenches with students affected by Autism. Soma is absolutely brilliant and understands the Autistic brain so well. She knows that non-verbal students need to learn other ways to communicate and her RPM has been life changing for so many. Soma also knows that there is so much more to it than us teaching and students comprehending a concept. For our students to be able to apply what they learn and really live independently in the world, it requires much motor memory practice and repetition until many various skills are acquired. I ha. Practical guide to advance learners function in a 3D world! Previous books by Soma Mukhopadhyay have focused on education and communicate with individuals who are frequently classified as low-functioning/non-verbal (unreliably verbal) or severely autistic (although RPM also benefits the "high functioning" autistic population as well). This book expands those critical skills learned in acquiring education and communicate to 3D objects and activities necessary to manipulate and use in order to function in this world. I love this book because if followed it can help learners to not only BE and contribute with their learning, knowledge and ideas, but have pract. Michele Pierce Burns said BEST ONE YET!. Reading Soma's latest book feels like a 1:1 tutorial! It is full of practical, clearly-explained strategies/learning opportunities that I have already started using with my son Danson with great results. I plan to share some of the exercises Soma writes about with his whole team: teachers, OT, life skills coach etc. I am so excited about this book that I'm starting a book club around it in NYC area. Writing this reminds me to order another copy right now! Seriously, this book is changing my life with every page.
Since developing the Rapid Prompting Method to teach her own son Tito, Soma has been featured on CNN International, 60 Minutes II, PBS, BBC and Good Morning America, and in the New York Times newspaper, People, Scientific American and National Geographic magazines. . Soma Mukhopadhyay is the Executive