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CommuniCamp™ is a 3+ day Intensive Group Treatment and Parent Training program to help children, tweens, and teens ages 3-15+ with Selective Mutism, social anxiety, and extreme shyness. Based on 20+ years of experience treating Selective Mutism using Social Communication Anxiety Treatment® (S-CAT®), the evidence-based treatment approach created by world-renowned Selective Mutism expert, Dr. Elisa Shipon-Blum, we will help your child, tween, or teen build the social communication skills necessary for school, the real world, and at home. The CommuniCamp…

Brave Buddies℠ is an intensive group behavioral treatment program designed to help children ages three to twelve with selective mutism (SM) speak in school and other public places. We create a classroom-like setting that offers children a safe environment to practice verbal participation, or what we call “brave talking.” One-day sessions, which run from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, are still accepting registrations for the following dates: December 21, 2018 April 5, 2019 June 28, 2019 Multi-day intensive programs, which…

Intensive outpatient treatment for children with Selective Mutism. Fade in sessions February 16 to 17. ​ Summer session: TBA probably July. If you are interested in 2019 programs, please contact Heidi ASAP. Camp has a capacity of 6-8 per session and sessions fill up quickly. Please be advised that winter camp will likely be filled by December 2018 and summer programs usually by Feb 2019. In order to register for camp please contact Heidi for a free phone consultation at…

Mighty Mouth Kids is the SM Group Intensive model that Dr. Kurtz created and pioneered as the Brave Buddies model at the NYU Child Study Center in 2009 and later brought to the Child Mind Institute in 2010. Mighty Mouth is now supported by clinical research as well and is in its 10th year! Intensive group treatment for 3-9 year olds with SM Replicates a school/camp setting with 1:1 counselor to camper ratio (allows goals and needs to be individualized)…

Children meet together to practice brake talking with other children and adults. Each child has a one-to-one counselor.

Offered in-person and via live webinar Led by Dr. Lindsay Scharfstein of the Center for Anxiety and Behavioral Change (Rockville, MD), an expert in the evidence-based treatment of selective mutism. 1 CE credit is available for psychologists. Pre-registration is required. Location to attend in-person: CABC, 50 W. Montgomery Avenue, Suite 110, Rockville, MD 20850 Live Webinar option: Instructions will be sent prior to the seminar for the live webinar offered via Zoom. After attending, participants will be able to: List…

Programa de Tratamiento Intensivo Grupal para el Desarrollo de Habilidades Sociocomunicacionales para ninos con Mutisms Selectivo y/o Timidez Extrema Comuniamigate Centro Mutismo Selectivo Internacional Argentina: 011-15-3274-1667/ Exterior 0054-9-11-3274-1667 mutismoselectivo@gmail.com

Dr. Alicia Goodman with Simply Psychology LLC will be starting social skills groups for children and teens who have been diagnosed with SM starting in March, 2019. These groups are intended for youth who require approximately 5-10 minutes of warm up time before communicating with others. Groups will be separated by age and a short screening process is required. If there is enough interest, parent groups will run simultaneously. Individual and family therapy sessions using PCIT for Selective Mutism are…