Advocates claim it has the power to unlock the hidden intelligence of profoundly autistic people. The results are unstudied.

At 18 years old, these North Texas twins with autism are able to communicate through a technique called the Rapid Prompting Method.

“Once I sluggishly died to the idea of talking, my mind was free to roam.” Those words begin a poem written by Richie Specht, 27, using what is known as the Rapid Prompting Method (RPM). The poem was ...

For most of his life, 16-year-old Joey Lowenstein barely had a voice, with autism limiting his speech to a few words and phrases. In the last year, Lowenstein’s world has changed, thanks to a tool ...