Finding Your Voice Helping Children With Selective Mutism

Author : Daniel Fung,Clare Kwan,Wong Zi Jun
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789814794961

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Finding Your Voice: Helping Children with Selective Mutism by Daniel Fung,Clare Kwan,Wong Zi Jun Pdf

Selective mutism is a childhood anxiety disorder characterised by a child's inability to speak and communicate effectively in select social settings, such as school. These children are able to speak and communicate in settings where they are comfortable, secure, and relaxed. Most children with selective mutism also have social phobia or social anxiety: they fear social interactions where there is an expectation to speak and communicate. Finding Your Voice highlights the different challenges a child with selective mutism might face, and provides effective, research-based behavioural intervention plans. Tips for engaging and motivating children are provided, focusing on a gradual, step-wise approach to increased speech, as well as fun and engaging activities that can be used at each step of treatment.

Author : Angela E. McHolm,Charles E. Cunningham,Melanie K. Vanier
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781608823925

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Helping Your Child with Selective Mutism by Angela E. McHolm,Charles E. Cunningham,Melanie K. Vanier Pdf

Often described as 'social phobia's cousin' and misdiagnosed as autism, selective mutism is a debilitating fear of speaking in some situations experienced by some children. The disorder usually presents in children before the age of five, but it may not be recognized until the child starts school. When requested to speak, children with selective mutism often look down, blush, or otherwise express anxiety that disrupts their engagement with people and activities. Selective mutism is related to social anxiety and social phobia, and more than 90 percent of children with selective mutism also manifest symptoms of one of these problems. This book is the first available for parents of children with selective mutism. It offers a broad overview of the condition and reviews the diagnostic criteria for the disorder. The book details a plan you can use to coordinate professional treatment of your child's disorder. It also explains the steps you can take on your own to encourage your child to speak comfortably in school and in his or her peer group. All of the book's strategies employ a gradual, 'stepladder' approach. The techniques gently encourage children to speak more, while at the same time helping them feel safe and supported. Angela E. McHolm, Ph.D., is director of the Selective Mutism Service at McMaster Children's Hospital in Hamilton, ON. The Selective Mutism Service offers outpatient psychiatric consultation to families and professionals such as school personnel, speech and language pathologists, and mental health clinicians who support children with selective mutism. She is assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences in the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University in Hamilton, ON.

Author : Gaye James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798885830881

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Finding Your Voice by Gaye James Pdf

Author : Robert Schum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0878227075

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Finding Voice by Robert Schum Pdf

Often baffling to parents, teachers, and some therapists, the social anxiety disorder known as selective mutism prevents children from moving toward normal social communication, critical in the school-age years. Finding Voice is not a manual for treatment of selective mutism in a rote manner. Some psychological and communication disorders might be treated with a manualized procedure, but this is not one of those disorders. The behavioral variations and rate of progress varies widely among children with selective mutism. These variations limit a manualized response. Rather than serving a menu to the reader, this book teaches how to create different menus, based on the tastes of the children and their parents. Long-time therapist Robert Schum shares his years of experience helping children, their families, and their teachers. The author discusses the symptoms and treatment of selective mutism, and includes a variety of case histories with insightful intervention examples based on best-practice procedures for primary grades to adolescence. He notes that there is a family pattern of social anxiety among children who have selective mutism. This book covers assessment, treatment, and school intervention.

Author : Maggie Johnson,Alison Wintgens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351702690

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The Selective Mutism Resource Manual by Maggie Johnson,Alison Wintgens Pdf

For anyone who needs to understand, assess or manage selective mutism, this is a comprehensive and practical manual that is grounded in behavioural psychology and anxiety management and draws on relevant research findings as well as the authors' extensive clinical experience. Now in its second edition and including new material for adolescents and adults, The Selective Mutism Resource Manual 2e provides: an up-to-date summary of literature and theory to deepen your understanding of selective mutism a wealth of ideas on assessment and management in home, school and community settings so that its relevance extends far beyond clinical practice a huge range of printable online handouts and other resources case studies and personal stories to illustrate symptoms and demonstrate the importance of tailored interventions. This book is essential reading for people who have selective mutism as well as for the clinicians, therapists, educators, caseworkers and families who support them.

Author : Christopher Kearney, Ph.D.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199750491

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Helping Children with Selective Mutism and Their Parents by Christopher Kearney, Ph.D. Pdf

Selective mutism, or refusal or unwillingness to speak in certain situations or settings, poses a particular challenge to educators and other school-based professionals. In many cases, school personnel are on the front lines of assessment and treatment for these children and must help them succeed in an academic setting. This can be difficult considering that many school-based professionals are pressed for time and resources. Helping Children with Selective Mutism and Their Parents: A Guide for School-based Professionals provides information that can help readers better understand and combat selective mutism. Written for guidance counselors, teachers, principals and deans, school psychologists, and school-based social workers, this book educates readers about the nature of selective mutism and its most common clinical manifestations (such as social anxiety, oppositional behavior, and communication difficulties). Offering methods to determine the form and function of a child's chronically mute behavior, the book provides evidence-based strategies to enhance a child's verbal participation at school and in other social and academic activities. The chapters provide advice for working collaboratively with parents, preventing relapse, and tackling special issues. Easy-to-read and conversational in style, Helping Children with Selective Mutism and Their Parents offers numerous visuals, handouts, case vignettes, and FAQs. The book is an essential resource for educators faced with children with selective mutism, as well as other professionals who work with this population, including clinical child psychologists and psychiatrists, social workers, and pediatricians.

Author : R. Lindsey Bergman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780195391527

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Treatment for Children with Selective Mutism by R. Lindsey Bergman Pdf

Treatment for Children with Selective Mutism outlines the sequence and essential elements to guide clinicians through a comprehensive, integrated program for young children who display symptoms of SM.

Author : Junhua Reitman,Amelia Reitman,Nianhua Xu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003818427

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Supporting your Child with Selective Mutism by Junhua Reitman,Amelia Reitman,Nianhua Xu Pdf

This book provides strategies and ideas to support children with selective mutism in school, at home, and in the community. Packed with illustrations, this practical guide offers a roadmap to help children overcome selective mutism in various situations. 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.

Author : Cheryl Forrester,Carl Sutton
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781784501143

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Selective Mutism In Our Own Words by Cheryl Forrester,Carl Sutton Pdf

An eye-opening and enlightening collection of stories from people living with Selective Mutism (SM), this book provides a much-needed platform for people with SM to share experiences of the condition in their own words. Exploring all aspects of SM, from symptoms and diagnostic criteria, to triggers and the consequences of being psychologically unable to speak, the stories in this book dispel the myths around this often misunderstood condition. Far from refusing to talk, or choosing not to, the contributors offer genuine insights into why they simply cannot speak in certain situations or in front of certain people. Children, teens and adults from the UK and US share experiences of feeling isolated, struggling at school, and finding ways to communicate. Letting people with SM know that they are not alone with the condition, the book will also help family, friends and professionals to understand what it is like to live with SM.

Author : Rachel Busman
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781839970665

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Being Brave with Selective Mutism by Rachel Busman Pdf

If you've picked up this book, talking is probably pretty hard for you. Maybe you really want to talk but feel too nervous to do it when lots of eyes are on you. Perhaps you can talk to certain people but not others or you can only speak a few words in a soft voice. No matter what you are going through, the tips and activities in this book can help you to feel braver about talking. Selective mutism can be tricky to manage. This workbook helps you and your child formulate a plan for exposure activities, and breaks down talking into attainable steps. It includes examples of games to play while practicing talking and offers sample dialogues to illustrate how to do exposures. Pairing a system of rewards along with the exposures helps your child through the challenge of dealing with those uncomfortable feelings. It discusses different situations and places where talking can be difficult and introduces two children, Emily and Jackson, who are both working hard to tackle their selective mutism. Packed full of activities, worksheets and helpful strategies, this book makes putting in the work of being brave around talking fun!

Author : Marian B. Moldan, LCSW-R
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781480805071

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Charli's Choices by Marian B. Moldan, LCSW-R Pdf

Charli never says a word outside her house. She only speaks to her mother and father, and if her nana and poppy come over, it takes her a long time to say any words. One day, Charli's best friend from school, comes over to play. Lily, who brings a big sack of toys to share, must rely on Charli's mother to ask choice questions that encourage Charli to practice talking. As her mother gives her choices, Charli soon begins to open up and talk to Lily. Charli chooses which colored marker she wants to use, what she wants to draw, and whether she wants to borrow one of Lilys markers. Charli and Lily are having so much fun! Charli's Choices is a beneficial, interactive childrens book for educators, children, and parents that offers valuable insight into selective mutism as a little girls mother teaches her, through specific questions, how to communicate successfully with others.

Author : Faye Bird
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781474919326

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What I Couldn't Tell You by Faye Bird Pdf

When love turns to jealousy, when jealousy turns to rage, when rage turns to destruction... Laura was head over heels in love with Joe. But now Laura lies in a coma and Joe has gone missing. Was he the one who attacked her? Laura's sister Tessie is selectively mute. She can't talk but she can listen. And as people tell her their secrets, she thinks she's getting close to understanding what happened on that fateful night.

Author : Stephen Quinlan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798696977614

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Raising Voices by Stephen Quinlan Pdf

This book is intended as an activity book for caregivers to children with a diagnosis of Selective Mutism (SM) based on years of clinical experience and research. Various activities with a Cognitive Behavioral slant are outlined in addition to tips for caregivers. Enjoy the illustrations and reading the book together with your child. Then, use the expert tips to put together your brave adventure!

Author : Aimee Kotrba,Shari J Saffer
Publisher : Shari Saffer
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1732599602

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Overcoming Selective Mutism by Aimee Kotrba,Shari J Saffer Pdf

Drawing from their respective experiences as a clinician who has treated hundreds of children with selective mutism and a parent of a child with selective mutism, authors Dr. Aimee Kotrba and Shari J. Saffer provide clear strategies to increase speaking and reduce anxiety.

Author : Maggie Johnson,Junhua Reitman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000858280

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The Selective Mutism Workbook for Parents and Professionals by Maggie Johnson,Junhua Reitman Pdf

This workbook provides hands-on Activities, Strategies, planning sheets and progress trackers for use with children with selective mutism at home, at school and in the wider community. Written by selective mutism expert Maggie Johnson and parent coach Junhua Reitman, the workbook includes first-hand accounts of how children can overcome SM successfully using the Activities and Strategies described in this book. Activities are organised around the daily routines of school and family life and each Activity is broken into a progression of small steps with appropriate Strategies and an accompanying record sheet to track progress. Activities include: • Using the toilet at school • Attending social gatherings • Organising a successful playdate • Initiating conversation • Talking in the classroom • Eating with peers This workbook is essential reading for parents, professionals and anyone who is looking for a toolkit for selective mutism. It also provides a useful extension to The Selective Mutism Resource Manual, 2nd edition, focusing on the ‘how’ to complement the manual’s ‘what’ and ‘why’. Small steps really do lead to big changes but taking the first step can be the most difficult. This book helps you make that first step.