When we assess children with selective mutism first we need to decide whether their symptoms fit with a diagnosis: the child has a consistent pattern of speaking and non speaking with certain people under certain conditions even when it is clearly in the child’s interest to speak they don’t the child has described, in absence of stammering, a sensation of
When I start working with families with children with Selective Mutism I work with supporting them with changing behaviours that may confirm the silence. One technique is called FREEZE THE MOMENT… what does it mean? It is NOT speaking on behalf of your child, but in little steps… I know that it is difficult, most parents things that I am asking
Can NLP help your child overcome anxiety? Anxiety in children affects not only the child who suffers, but the entire family. I have been working with children with Selective Mutism for many years and after my training in NLP I have used games and techniques to help the child’s anxiety with communication. When your child is frightened and worries constantly
This is used for children whose speech is not clear. Comprehensive assessment for speech and sound typically includes case history; oral mechanism examination; speech sound assessment (single-word testing and connected speech sampling), including severity, intelligibility, stimulability, speech perception; spoken-language testing, including receptive and expressive language assessment, phonological processing; literacy assessment. Assessment may result in diagnosis of a speech sound disorder,
