Communication Breakthrough for Persons with ASD - Soma RPM - May 6-8

[Guest guest]

A Communication Breakthrough for Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder -

Featuring Soma Mukhopadhyay

May 6-8, 2009 - Dominican Center at wood, 2025 East Fulton Street, Grand

Rapids, Michigan

$30 per person for all three days! For Registration:

www.autismsocietyofkentcounty.org - For Information: Contact Celia Andrus at

(616) 361-1061 or by email at askkentcty@...

The Autism Society of Kent County is sponsoring a 3-day workshop featuring Ms.

Soma Mukhopadhyay, originator of Soma® RPM (Rapid Prompting Method) and Director

of Education for HALO (Helping Autism through Learning and Outreach) in Austin,

Texas. Soma will present her groundbreaking approach to educating and enabling

communication in persons with autism and other severe communication disorders on

Wednesday, May 6, 2009, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Dominican Center at wood,

2025 E. Fulton Street in Grand Rapids, MI.

From May 6 through May 8, Soma will also conduct individual instructional

sessions with area students and adults with ASD. Each session will provide a

live video feed, allowing parents, other family members and professionals the

opportunity to observe, ask questions, and learn more about Soma® RPM.

Soma Mukhopadyhay, like so many mothers, could not accept the conventional

wisdom when her son Tito was diagnosed with severe autism. Defying the prognosis

that Tito was incapable of accomplishing anything, Soma devised a way to teach

her son to read, write and do math.. Tito is now a published author, and Soma

has dedicated her life to teaching her revolutionary Rapid Prompting Method to

hundreds of autistic children and adults throughout the world. Soma's work

proves what many parents have suspected: that students with autism are capable

of learning at academic levels previously thought unattainable. The power of an

academic education improves the lives of all people, and the Rapid Prompting

Method is the key to providing the gift of education and communication to

students with autism.

Soma's work has garnered national attention; she was featured on CNN

International in 2008, and has also been profiled on 60 Minutes II, PBS and the

BBC. Articles about Soma have also appeared in the New York Times, National

Geographic and Scientific American. Soma's vision for HALO and her Rapid

Prompting Method is to increase academic learning and communication, and to

promote understanding and respect for persons diagnosed with Autism Spectrum

Disorder around the globe.