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Rapid Prompting Method of Communicating with Severely Autistic Children: A Language Socialization

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The study examined from an anthropological, language socialization perspective a practice of “Rapid Prompting” used for communication with children diagnosed with autism. The study employed ethnographic methodology, which included participant observation and video recording in naturalistic environments. The data corpus analyzed in the study consisted of approximately 200 hours of video recorded interactions involving 16 children with severe autism and their parents, siblings, and teachers as they were socialized by an experienced adult instructor into the use of the practice of “Rapid Prompting”; and as adult caregivers and siblings were using “Rapid Prompting” to communicate with children with autism in everyday social situations.

Funding

Type	Source	Number	Amount
Private	National Academy of Education	NAE/SOLOMON	$22,730

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