Summary of 6.10.21 The history and development of RPM - interview with Soma Mukhopadhyay by Sue Finnes

00:00:00 - 00:45:00

In this video, Soma Mukhopadhyay discusses the history and development of RPM, a teaching method that uses stims and behaviors to help children with autism and other disabilities learn. He discusses the book he wrote on the subject, which was published in 2016.

• 00:00:00 Soma Mukhopadhyay discusses the history and development of RPM with Sue Finnes, discussing how she worked with her son, Tito, to develop skills such as handwriting and spellings. Tito was diagnosed with autism at a young age, and Mukhopadhyay found ways to work with his sensory preferences through various exercises and strategies.
• 00:05:00 Tito, a six-year-old autistic boy, was interviewed by the BBC for their documentary "Tito's Story." This interest in autism led to invitations to speak at autism conferences in the United States and England, and eventually to a meeting with the Cure Autism Now Foundation, who hired him for four months to work with their computer-based training program. Tito's abilities as a verbal and tactile Tactile Defensiveness learner were found to match his descriptions in metaphors, and his experiences with touch were explained in terms of his brain's responses to pain. Today, Tito lives in Israel and is a lecturer at the Haifa University's School of Psychology.
• 00:10:00 Soma Mukhopadhyay worked with children who had disabilities and who were nonverbal or had difficulty speaking, and found that teaching them how to write helped them to improve their communication skills. She published a book on the subject in 2008.
• 00:15:00 The author of RPM, Soma Mukhopadhyay, discusses the history and development of RPM with interviewer Sue Finnes. Mukhopadhyay describes how RPM came about as a result of wanting to provide more engaging and sensory activities for students with autism, and how the book can help parents better communicate with their children.
• 00:20:00 Soma Mukhopadhyay discusses the history and development of RPM, which focuses on developing students' critical thinking, creative imagination, and practical skills. He also gives tips on how to communicate with students about physical pain.
• 00:25:00 Soma Mukhopadhyay discusses RPM, a teaching method that uses stims and behaviors to help children with autism and other disabilities learn. He discusses the book he wrote on the subject, which was published in 2016.
• 00:30:00 In this video, Soma Mukhopadhyay discusses the history and development of RPM with Sue Finnes. He explains that RPM is designed to help children with verbal and non-verbal deficits, and that it is important to remember that episodic memory (memory for events that have happened) is not recommended for use in RPM sessions. He also stresses the importance of belief in order to access memories, and emphasizes that the various components of emotion must be assembled together in order to bring them out through the hippocampus in order to produce language.
• 00:35:00 This video features an interview with Soma Mukhopadhyay, an author and professor of mathematics and autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) who discusses her books RPM: A Mathematical and Sensory Curriculum for Autism and Brown Book: Growing Sensory Tolerance Using RPM. Mukhopadhyay explains that RPM is a system that helps students with ASD learn math concepts while also developing other senses. The brown book is a sequel to RPM that expands on the concepts introduced in the first book.
• 00:40:00 RPM is a technique for self-command and self-improvement that was developed by Soma Mukhopadhyay. It can be used to improve one's verbal skills, as well as one's physical abilities.
• 00:45:00 Soma Mukhopadhyay discusses RPM, which is a speech development program that helps students with non-verbal disabilities to develop speech. He also discusses how a typical session might look and how the program has evolved over the years.