RPM RESOURCES BASED ON HALO-SOMA TEACHING

www.halo-soma.org

This website is full of information for beginners, answering many questions. If you're interested in learning more about RPM and/or using it, I suggest you become  a member of HALO-SOMA to access other resources and lesson plans. You can purchase Soma's books and RPM supplies at this site.

https://faithhopeloveautism.blogspot.com

This is Phillip's blog and is considered to be one of the top blogs online concerning autism. It is, "the story of a boy who could not talk, but learned to make his thoughts known by spelling on a letter board and typing. This is his path from silence to communication." It also lists RPM providers.

www.unlockingvoices.com

This website offers great information for those wanting to learn more about RPM. Its provider lives in the United Kingdom. It also gives you a link to its Facebook Group, Unlocking Voices, with members worldwide.

Unlocking Voices - Using RPM

This is THE Facebook Group  you want to join to receive constant information on using RPM. It shows feedback from parents and professionals all over the world, as well as listing the RPM providers in countries and states her in the United States. If you go into the Files Section, you will be rewarded with plenty of information and videos to answer nearly all your questions.

Ido In Autismland

Book by Ido Kedar

I highly recommend this book for parents, family, friends, teachers. Ido explains the challenges he faces in a very readable, easy to understand way and describes how his body does not always obey his brain. He learned RPM and now uses an iPad - he attends a mainstream school. This is essential reading if you are going to start RPM.

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen Old Boy with Autism

Book by Naoki Higashida, KA Yoshida, and David Mitchell

This best-seller book, "is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought they could get inside the head of their autistic loved one at last have a way to break through to the curious, subtle, and complex life within . "Using an alphabet grid to slowly construct words, sentences, and thoughts that he is unable to speak out loud, Naoki answers even the most delicate questions that people want to know. Questions such as: Why do people with autism talk so loudly and weirdly? Why do you line up your toy cars and blocks? Why don't you make eye contact when you're talking?" It's MUST reading for anyone who works with those living on the spectrum!