Ep. 5 - The RPM Program for Non-Verbal Learning with Lenae Crandall

Ep. 5 - The RPM Program for Non-Verbal Learning with Lenae Crandall

Show Notes:

·      Can you tell us a bit about your background and how it led to founding HEED? (3:39)

·      How and why Lenae became a Certified RPM Provider, discovered “The Mind Tree”, and got involved with Soma Mukhopadhyay and HEED. (4:29)

·      Found HALO (Helping Autism through Learning and Outreach) (5:47)

·      Working with Soma (8:00)

·      What is RPM program? (10:04) 

·      Presume Intelligence (10:55)

·      How it benefits the Autism community (14:30)  

·      How does one get started on the RPM journey? (16:26)

·      Starting with Paper Choices – How to choose and what to choose?  Getting the body and mind to integrate. (17:00)

·      Motor Modeling vs. Physical Facilitation (21:06)

·      Implementation Techniques 

·      The Different Learning Channels (27:09)

        o   Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Movement and Tactile

        o   Identification and Use of Learning Channels – Generalized, Global, Selective, Auditory channel, Visual channel, Sensory tools  

·      Eyes and tracking the Letterboard (40:26)

·      Development of Tolerance Areas - Stimming behaviors (19:40) & (36:10)

·      The Processes of Encoding and Mental Mapping (42:44) 

·      Can you also teach Extracurricular activities like skateboarding, and     roller skates classes, cooking (individual leisure activities training for our kids) (47:15)

·      Controversy regarding teacher prompting student with cues to choose the right answers (48:44) 

Links:

HALO - https://www.halo-soma.org/

HEED - http://www.heedrpm.com/

 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/HEED-RPM-1436248763329075

Akhil Autism Foundation Research with University of Virginia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXl5Ku23_pU 

The Akhil Autism Foundation has funded research with the University of Virginia using eye-tracking technology, which reveals agency in assisted autistic communication.  You can learn more at the link provided in the show notes for this episode.