The Silence Within: A Teacher/Parent Guide to Working with Selectively Mute and Shy Children
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (848 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0615121519 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 65 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Order now.Don’t miss out on this valuable and informative resource for teachers, parents, speech and language therapists and guidance counselors.. It includes quarterly goals, the child’s handwritten weekly goal, daily strategies and activities, resources, references and reproducibles. Also described is the process that followed in the child overcoming the disorder, after five years of being mute in school and all social situations. The Silence Within describes a teacher's experience with a selectively mute child. The book grew out of research and daily notes over a seven month period
Gail Kervatt is a recently retired school reading specialist. She has had articles published internationally in The Reading Instruction Journal, mitSPRACHE, June 2002, an Austrian speech journal, and Communiphon,Autumn 2002, South African Speech-Language-Hearing Association. . She holds a Master of Education Degree and New Jersey Reading Specialist certification. She has been a teacher for twenty-nine year
Carla Turnquest said Carla Turnquest, Bahamas. This book was my first introduction to Selective Mutism. The case history of Nick described my son and our struggles point for point. Without having a caring teacher at the time I was able to implement some of Gails strategy. and I shared this book with a new teacher who was able to follow the very simple and. James Foley said stunningly disappointing; from a counselor and parent of a SM child. This book is not a guide at all. It is a review of a single case, and even there it focuses only the interventions of the reading teacher, mentioning but not defining the interventions of teachers, parents, and a private psychologist, or others. The vast majority of the book is padded with weekly intervention. Lisa Klienstuber said Spirited Child? Difficult Child? Strong Willed? Temperments?. In my search to find the answers to why my middle child acted so differently than my other children, and not receiving any answers, I began my own quest. I read books that explained temperments and it helped me understand my daughter. All of the books such as, "Raising your Spirited Child", "The Dificult Chil
Thanks for keeping such accurate notes and writing the book. -- Gwen, ParentI now have accurate information to share with teachers. -- Beth, ParentI would highly recommend this book for anyone who needs to give their school more information about SMTerri -- Terri, Parent, April, 2002Your book has helped open the teachers'eyes. My daughter has FINALLY cracked the "silence"she began talking spontaneously. Thank you for your patience and helpful ideas. -- Betsy, Parent. Beyond being a very interesting story, THE SILENCE WITHIN will serve as a useful guidebook to help selectively m