Preparing Children with Selective Mutism for a New School Year

Webinar - Children with Selective Mutism: Transitioning to New School Year

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This 1 hour 45-minute webinar provides practical strategies to help support children with Selective Mutism transition to a new school year. Selective Mutism is a condition that severely restricts a child’s capacity for communicating verbally outside the home and typically occurs in around 1 in every 200 children in primary school. It is a treatable anxiety disorder, but generally requires 1 to 2 years of treatment to resolve.

This webinar is for parents and carers of children with Selective Mutism who are in Kindergarten to Year 5 this year and will still be in primary school next year. It is also for teachers working with these children, both this year and in the year ahead.

what's
covered...

  1. Understanding the challenges children face during school transitions
  2. How to prepare the child emotionally for a new school year
  3. Setting up supportive structures and routines in the school  
  4. Preparing children for new teachers, classrooms, and routines
  5. The importance of placement with peers
  6. Practical strategies to support communication and confidence
  7. Helping the child generalise their communication from their current to their new teacher

best suited for...

  • Parents and carers of children with Selective Mutism in Kindergarten to Year 5 (for students in Year 6, please see the Transitioning to high school webinar here)
  • Teachers and learning support teams wanting to help students with Selective Mutism or extremely reluctant talkers
  • Speech Pathologists
  • School Psychologists

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