RPM and HALO - A new way of looking at Autism

After a successful workshop on RPM at the other song clinic last year we bring to you another round of RPM on 15th and 16th of November 2017 

Who is Ms. Soma Mukopadhay? 

Soma is a teacher and mother from India who represents this demographic perfectly. She is the creator and developer of the trademarked Rapid Prompting Method (RPM), which is a new way of looking at the prominent epidemic of Autism, and it is giving hopes to many.

Her contribution to Autism awareness and education.

Soma has a severely autistic son, Tito, who is now a teenager. With little professional guidance or assistance, Soma took care of her son's education and development. Soma holds advanced degrees in chemistry, but she had no formal training in Autism before having her son. He was diagnosed with Autism when he was 3 years, and Soma was told to “just keep him busy”. 

She went above and beyond busy, by providing him with her own intensive educational curriculum. The activities included reading textbooks and classics, prompting him to point to numbers and letter, and physically monitoring his body through the motions like bicycle riding. Soma was her son's tireless taskmaster, but the work paid off and the fruits of her labor ripened. By the time her son was six-years-old, he could write independently.Incredibly, her son is now a published writer and poet despite of his severe Autism.

In popular media

Soma's work garnered national attention. She and her son Tito have been featured on 60 minutes II, Good Morning America, Scientific American, the New York Times, National Geographic and numerous other media platforms (http://www.halo-soma.org/about_soma_tito.php).

What Is RPM?

RPM uses a Teach-Ask paradigm for eliciting responses through intensive verbal, auditory, visual and/or tactile prompts.

Soma uses RPM to teach academics and communication by eliciting responses through intensive verbal, auditory, visual and/or tactile prompts. Her prompting is designed to keep students focused and successful. RPM is designed to activate the reasoning part of the brain so that the student is distracted by and engaged in learning.

Workshop Details

Date: 15th & 16th November 2017 | Timings: 9:00 to 4:00

Requirements:

Rs. 25,000/- (For 1:1 consultation and RPM instructional session. )

Rs. 4000/- (For Doctors and therapists) to watch Live Relay

Rs. 3000/- (Single parent) & Rs. 5000/- (Both parents) to watch Live Relay

*Above mentioned fees include lunch and tea/coffee

Workshop Contents

Day 1: 9:00 to 15:00 - 1:1 consultation which will be relayed in auditorium

15:00 to 16:00 – Discussion on the techniques used to communicate with such students

Day 2: Lecture on how to use RPM technique (Indentifying learners types, learning channels, implementation of RPM and trouble shooting)

For Registration

Contact - 022 42616666 | Email-info@theothersong.com | WhatsApp - 7738322289

Venue

1001, Peninsula Heights,

C. D. Burfiwala Marg,

Juhu Lane,Andheri (W),

Mumbai - 400 058.

Homoeopathy and endemic disease treatment

When it comes to treating and preventing serious epidemic diseases, homoeopathy is known for being used by governments for dengue, leptospirosis, epidemic fever, malaria, and Japanese encephalitis epidemics, and serious contagious diseases since time. Importantly, homeopathic remedies can be safely and inexpensively made in large quantities, with easy distribution.

The Indian government uses it for  malaria, Japanese encephalitis, dengue fever, and epidemic fever, while the Cuban government uses it for leptospirosis epidemics and dengue fever outbreaks, the Brazilian government trials show reduced the incidence of meningococcal disease across tens of thousands of Brazilians during outbreaks and epidemics, while the governments of Thailand, Colombo and Brazil use it to manage dengue fever. Sadly, many other nations have not had that opportunity, though homoeopathy has been known to heal and save lives in epidemics, since time immemorial.

We bring to you a few instances of homoeopathy saving innumerable lives...

o In the 1849 cholera outbreak in the United States of America, allopathic treatment saw an alarming  48-60 per cent death rate, while homoeopathy documented death  was as low as 3 per cent.

o The American Institute of Homeopathy Journal  in May 1921 cites how Dean W.A.Pearson had 26,795 cases of influenza treated by homeopathic physicians with only a mortality rate of 1.05 per cent, as against conventional mortality rate of 30 per cent.

o The 1918 influenza pandemic saw Medical Doctors treat with homeopathy throughout Europe and in America.

o The scarlet fever, Cholera and Flu epidemics around 1919 in the US saw Homeopathic Hospitals had with a 2-5% loss against the 85-90 per cent loss of the conventional hospital treatment.

o The epidemic of yellow fever in the southern States in 1878, saw an allopathic death rate of 23 per cent against a homoeopathic death rate of 6.6 per cent.

Homeopathy has been recognised by WHO for many years as the fastest growing and second most widely used system of medicine in the world (World Health Report, WHO Global Atlas of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Map Volume, 2005). We need WHO to identify potential treatment using homoeopathic drugs in cases of epidemics such as in the case of Ebola virus.

International homeopathic pharmacies are ready and willing to donate the identified traditional remedies immediately. All WHO has to do is ask, or respond to the offers of help, as with modernisation, health crisis outstrip human and medical resources to contain it and the number of those infected continues to grow.

It is time we do the science and test remedies bringing devastating epidemics under control, instead of waiting and watching millions die...