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This practical guide provides strategies and ideas to support children with selective mutism in school, at home, and in the community. Based on first-hand experience, it furnishes parents and teachers with a toolkit to plan and implement intervention with individual children throughout their selective mutism journey.
List 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
About the author
Junhua Reitman is a Parent Coach specialising in counselling parents and teachers of children with selective mutism (SM). She is the co-author of
The Selective Mutism Workbook for Parents and Professionals and the lead English-to-Chinese translator of several selective mutism related books. She is the director of SunnyMindED Selective Mutism Center. Junhua is also a Montessori early childhood educator.
Amelia Reitman is a 16-year-old student in a Biomedical Sciences Academy. Having experienced and overcome selective mutism (SM) as a young child, Amy makes it her personal mission to help children with SM. She is an active volunteer at the Selective Mutism Association and helped with translating and editing books related to SM. Amy works with a group of volunteers to help children with SM make friends and have fun.
Nianhua Xu obtained her doctoral training in the field of biomedical sciences and is the co-founder of SunnyMindED. She is a Parent Coach and an active volunteer helping parents of children with selective mutism (SM) on their journey to overcome SM. Nianhua translated several SM-related books into Chinese.
Summary
This practical guide provides strategies and ideas to support children with selective mutism in school, at home, and in the community. Based on first-hand experience, it furnishes parents and teachers with a toolkit to plan and implement intervention with individual children throughout their selective mutism journey.
