Working with Children

Your child isn’t broken. The system is. So instead of trying to force your child to conform to a broken system, why not get a new one?

Rapid Prompt Method (RPM) is a method to empower the learner with the best possible means to express thoughts, understanding, reasoning, and learning at that instant of learning (because an individual’s sensory tolerance is always changing). 

In RPM we ALWAYS: 

  • Presume competence (the student has the ability to learn)

  • Speak to the student in a respectful, conversational, and age appropriate manner

  • Respect and uplift the individual with autism as a worthwhile member of society

Four Goals of RPM:

The four objectives worked on in every RPM session are:

  • Cognitive - The teacher will teach an academic topic depending on the student’s age, exposure to learning, interest, or preoccupation. The teacher uses this topic to work on the student's ability to express reasoning and understanding.

  • ​​Skill - Based on the motor, sensory and emotional *readiness of the student, the teacher will ask the student to respond by selecting between correct and incorrect choices, or spelling on either the large letter stencils, full letter stencil, full letter board, keyboard/device, handwriting, or speech. All of the aforementioned are different skill goals that can be developed through RPM.​

  •  Tolerance- Every student has different levels of visual, auditory, tactile, performance and time tolerance. Initially, the teacher adapts to the student’s sensory and performance tolerances. Over time, the teacher slowly works on helping the student increase their level of tolerance in all of these fields.

  • ​Communication - Communication is the output of learning. Learning/communication is an integral part of RPM. Communication goals involve – single words, sentences, paragraphs, essays, short stories, composition of poetry. 

I offer in person consultation and sessions in Woodbury, New York.