Review
This excellent book provides a much needed practical manual the authors' extensive clinical experience and their warm enthusiasm with this group of children are reflected throughout the entire text, making the book a great pleasure to read. I fully recommend this resource manual. This book should be a must in every agency that happens to meet children with SM and their families. --European Child Adolescent Psychiatry
Product Description
Selectively mute children are at a significant disadvantage personally, socially and educationally. This unique manual emphasises practical assessment and treatment and provides advice and information, filling a significant gap in the availability of suitable resources in this field. - Uses an approach based on behavioural principles and a hierarchy of stages of confident speaking originally conceived by Anthony Glassberg. - Summarises relevant literature and theory and provides detailed ideas on assessment and management. - Includes case examples, photocopiable material, and a discussion about progress, transfer and discharge. - Written for teachers, clinical and educational psychologists, speech language therapists, child psychiatrists and parents.
About the Author
Maggie Johnson is a speech and language therapist specialising in childhood communication disorders. Her experience in education and community settings spans over twenty years in special schools, language units, mainstream schools, clinics and multi-agency centres. Maggie works for East Kent Coastal Teaching Primary Care Trust. Alison Wintgens is a speech language therapist at St. George's hospital, London, in the Department of Child and Adolescent Mental Health. She has extensive experience of working with children and adolescents with a range of communication disorders and additional behavioural or psychiatric problems.
