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.
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