Soma Mukhopadhyay is credited with creating rapid prompting method (though others have developed similar techniques, known as informative pointing or alphabet therapy),[1] a pseudoscientific technique that attempts to aid people with autism or other disabilities to communicate through pointing, typing, or writing.
[5][6] RPM is closely related to the scientifically discredited[7][8][9] technique facilitated communication (FC).
[1][10][11] Practitioners of RPM have failed to assess the issue of message agency using simple and direct scientific methodologies, saying that doing so would be stigmatizing and that allowing scientific criticisms of the technique robs people with autism of their right to communicate.
[15] Mukhopadhyay has also acknowledged that a teacher who wants to move quickly could accidentally guide the student's arm through touch, although that is not allowed in RPM.
[16] The release of the BBC documentary Tito's Story led to a fellowship offer from the Cure Autism Now foundation to Mukhopadhyay.