Selective Mutism: become a therapist with the brave muscle method
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Online event
Do you want to learn more about my Method? FOR THERAPISTS ONLY
About this event
Are you a therapist with an interest in SELECTIVE MUTISM, or do you want to deepen your knowledge about SELECTIVE MUTISM?
Do you know that your therapy will be more effective if you use a family dynamic approach, making the parents and the child active participants?
Connecting with the child and their parents, understanding the center of their fear of talking, and empowering all of them is where your journey begins.
Children with selective mutism are unable to speak around certain people or in certain settings, it is common that they are very chatty at home with family but silent at school. They may appear disengaged and disinterested, however, it is their fear that stops them from doing so.
Selective mutism is the phobia of communicating, not just related to words, and in the most extreme cases, children/teens cannot point, laugh out loud, shake or nod their head, share toys, or look at someone’s eyes.
Everyone focuses on the child with the belief that there is something that needs to be fixed, however, I know that as SLT we need to create a team around the child, empowering the parents and educating the school about modeling brave behavior, talking about fears, getting involved in understanding the brain and looking at bravery all around NOT just in speaking, enhancing the children self-esteem in making them see that they can do a lot of things.
I talk about the brain as the center of everything and I talk about EXERCISING BRAVE MUSCLE which leads to taking STEPS TO BRAVE TALKING.
If you want to learn more about SELECTIVE MUTISM and take on a new journey, I have my online training course and I use evidence for practice as well as 15 years of clinical experience. Here are my 3 top tips:
Understanding: You will all have a deeper understanding of Selective Mutism
Connection: You can support families develop strengths or superpowers as I call them, so they can take steps towards effective communication.
Normalization: As most importantly you’ll be able to normalize the fear of talking, and everyone will understand that everyone has a fear.
I look forward to meeting you and hearing your questions
