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Selective mutism: A school-based intervention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2016

Nonie Kirkby
Nonie Kirkby*
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South Australia
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This paper describes a school-based behavioural intervention in which the class teacher with the support of the guidance officer successfully intervened with a 6-year-old boy who had been selectively silent from about the age of 3. Specifically, a behavioural intervention comprising systematic desensitisation, stimulus fading and reinforcement of successive approximations was employed in a classroom setting.

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Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools , Volume 5 , November 1995 , pp. 111 - 118
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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