Finding Your Voice: Helping Children with Selective Mutism

Finding Your Voice: Helping Children with Selective Mutism
ISBN-10
9814794961
ISBN-13
9789814794961
Series
Finding Your Voice
Category
Psychology
Language
English
Published
2021-06-15
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Authors
Daniel Fung, Clare Kwan, Wong Zi Jun

Description

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.

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