Supporting your Child with Selective Mutism

A Practical Guide for School, Home, and in the Community

Junhua Reitman, Amelia Reitman, Nianhua Xu (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

226 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-40907-8 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	12.12.2023
Zusatzinfo	19 Tables, black and white; 330 Line drawings, color; 330 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 297 mm
Gewicht	1000 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	1-032-40907-X / 103240907X
ISBN-13	978-1-032-40907-8 / 9781032409078
Zustand	Neuware