Supporting your Child with Selective Mutism

Description

Based on Junhua Reitman’s vast experience of working with her own daughter Amelia – known in the book as Amy, and other children, this book furnishes parents and teachers with a toolkit to plan and implement intervention with individual children throughout their journey from the classic selective mutism ‘freeze’ response, to talking freely in various settings.

Techniques covered include:

• Graded questioning
• The buddy system
• The rainbow bridge
• Voice exposure

The reader is offered detailed examples of what worked for Amy in a variety of situations, including in school, at breaktimes, in extra-curricular activities, on playdates, and at birthday parties. These examples are followed up with suggestions and ideas of how these experiences could be applied to other children, making it ideal reading for anyone involved in the care of a child with selective mutism.

Table of contents:

• Aknowledgements
• Foreword
• Prefaces
• About the Book
• Part 1: About Selective Mutism
• Part 2: Parents Become Advocates in and Outside of School
• Part 3: Teacher Staff Provide Support in and Outside of School
• Part 4: Challenges the Child May Face at School
• Part 5: Support for the Child at Home and in the Community
• Part 6: Overcome Selective Mutism and Build Social Skills
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• List of Forms
• Index