comprehension questions/RPM

We are working with Tracey Hoberman, who is Ido's mom from Ido in Autismland. I've talked to Vivi and Esme about this. Has been really interesting. What we are working on is a style of Rapid Prompt Method (RPM). It's very off the idea of a natural flow of communication. But her goal is to get him to answer questions in full sentances and eventually write in paragraphs, etc, for school. I'll share a video, which is not so great because of the angle I have to shoot from, but you'll probably get the idea. 

I've been working on this with him at home as well. And Ali started to do a version of this before we stopped working with her. She has moved her practice strictly to the valley so we now can only see her once a month if that :(

We read a book, or this can even work for videos. Read a page or two then put the book aside and ask a question about what happened. Like "What did Thomas run into?" asking him to respond in full sentences. If he gets a little stuck, we say "Did Thomas run into a wall, did he run into a lake, did he run into a pile of flour". Until he types out "Thomas ran into a lake."

Then we keep going and continue to ask random questions. About what's happening in the story, or specifically about the characters to see if he's paying attention to the details of the pictures. 

I've been meaning to check in about that. So we can all be on the same page with this kind of thing. I'm just afraid the more generalized questions might be too broad? But maybe he's good with that direction as well. Let me know if it would work to use both of these methods?

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 8:48 AM Steve Brostowitz <sbrostowitz@wishcharter.org> wrote:

during independent reading of reader's workshop we are putting more of an emphasis on comprehension.

to start, i think the best approach is to give ian repetition on the same style question until there appears to be a comfort level with it.

last week we asked two questions after a book was read, 

"what was this book about?"

and 

"who was this book about?"

we asked, and then we waited to see if he answered verbally or with aac.  

if not, we provided multiple choice options typed on the educreations app.

let's stick with these two questions this week as they fit into our day (books, movies, tv shows, live acting).

vonda is scheduling the iep for march.  based on how he does with comprehension this month will determine if there is a reading goal for next year.

lmk what you think, thanks!

steve and shaina