Rapid Prompting Method

A student-oriented academic-based method created by Soma Mukhopadhyay.

The teacher will assess the various open learning channels:

Audio, visual, tactile, and kinesthetic

This will determine how the teacher adapts and presents the lesson to the student. The lesson is the “tool” by means of presenting information, and prompting a response/ any participation from the student to express understanding and reasoning. Whether it’s written choices on a piece of paper, or an A-Z stencil board, the choice and reasoning complexity will increase overtime.

In RPM there are 4 objectives:

• Cognitive

• Skill

• tolerance

• Communication

With these objectives in mind, the teacher will prompt to engage the student. Kinds of prompts include visual, auditory, and tactile.

This photo is an example of a visual and auditory prompt, the student will look at the mouth shape of the teacher motor modeling the corresponding letter he is pointing at, prompting the student to say it with her to initiate speech.

For more information on methodology you can visit Soma’s website at: Halo-soma.org