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1:49pm May 9, 2015
Anonymous asked: I was wondering, what is your opinion on the Rapid Prompting Method? There are many anecdotes that show it allowing non-verbal autistic people to communicate, but I have also read criticisms of it just being another kind of Facilitated Communication, and it is not really the autistic people communicating. Thank you for reading, and if you choose to answer this, thank you as well!

I think that like FC it has both great promise and great danger. I know that both FC and RPM can be life savers. I also know the potential for messed up things happening kids high in both. That is due to the collaborative nature of the communication, and can’t be gotten rid of, only worked around. Unfortunately most RPM and FC practitioners refuse to acknowledge the dangers and find ways to work around them as best they can. FC can be real and unreal and in between, so can RPM.