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SMA’s Founder and Director Emeritus, Dr. Elisa Shipon-Blum, uses her evidence-based treatment approach, Social Communication Anxiety Treatment® (S-CAT®), at the SMart Center’s CommuniCamp™ 3+ day Intensive Group Treatment and Parent Training Program to help children, tweens, and teens ages 3-17 with Selective Mutism, social anxiety, and extreme shyness. Based on 20+ years of clinical experience treating Selective Mutism using this method, we will help your child, tween, or teen build the social communication skills necessary for school, the real world,…

Does your child have difficulty speaking in school? Talking to peers and new adults? Communicating his or her needs? Outside Voice Selective Mutism Day Camp can help! Outside Voice creates a school-like environment that is made to foster your child’s growth and confidence in speaking with new peers and adults. Our skilled counselors will help your child conquer their anxiety around speaking and will help them start to use their “Outside Voice.” Outside Voice SM camp is held across 4…

In the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information, contact: Catherine Eckel, Ph.D., Co-Founder, Freedom Camp ceckel@drcatherineeckel.com www.drcatherineeckel.com www.selectivemutismbayarea.com

Children with Selective Mutism may be impacted in many situations due to their anxiety about communication; one of the most challenging things for parents is to see their child struggle to participate in holiday traditions that should be fun and exciting, such as going trick-or-treating or interacting with Santa Claus. Confident Kids Celebrations will include a series of holiday events intended to provide children with SM the opportunity to verbally participate in various traditional holiday and seasonal celebrations, potentially for…

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…

A social and emotional regulation skills group for the anxious child; all ages welcome. Location: Little Hands Occupational Therapy 500 Tamal Plaza Suite 527 Corte Madera CA 94925 Sign up contact Gabrielle Perelmuter MOT OTR/L: gp@littlehandsot.com Week: July 15 for 5 days 9 am to 11 am Cost: $1,250

WeSpeak is an intensive behavioral group intervention for teens with SM and significant social anxiety. Simulating all aspects of the school and social environment, WeSpeak provides high schoolers the opportunity to practice talking across a variety of contexts – targeting many of the verbal and social demands/expectations of this age group. WeSpeak uses a one-to-one mentor model so that each child has a trained adult working with them to provide support and guide their practice. Goals are highly individualized, and…

SMA’s Founder and Director Emeritus, Dr. Elisa Shipon-Blum, uses her evidence-based treatment approach, Social Communication Anxiety Treatment® (S-CAT®), at the SMart Center’s CommuniCamp™ 3+ day Intensive Group Treatment and Parent Training Program to help children, tweens, and teens ages 3-17 with Selective Mutism, social anxiety, and extreme shyness. Based on 20+ years of clinical experience treating Selective Mutism using this method, we will help your child, tween, or teen build the social communication skills necessary for school, the real world,…