SelectiveMutism.co.uk
Title
Smira - The UK Charity for Selective Mutism
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- As a Senior Psychiatric Social Worker in Leicester in the 1960’s, Alice came across a small number of children who would not speak in school and was desperate to help them. Her own investigations turned up very little information on elective mutism, as it was then called, and drawing upon her own knowledge of psychology, Alice started using various behavioural techniques to help ease these children into talking. Her first research paper ‘A Behavioural Approach in the Treatment of Selective Mutism’ was published in 1969 and others followed in 1977 and 1991. This behavioural approach has provided the foundation for a great deal of the work by other professionals in the field of SM.
