Supporting your Child with Selective Mutism: A Practical Guide for School, Home, and in the Community...

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Junhua Reitman Amelia Reitman

Supporting your Child with Selective Mutism

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

Junhua Reitman, Amelia Reitman, Nianhua Xu

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Routledge
07 December 2023

Psychological theory & schools of thought; Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology; Psychotherapy; Speech & language disorders & therapy; Coping with anxiety & phobias

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.

By: Junhua Reitman, Amelia Reitman, Nianhua Xu
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 297mm, Width: 210mm,
Weight: 720g
ISBN: 9781032409085
ISBN 10: 1032409088
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 07 December 2023
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.