title: Behavioral intervention to treat selective mutism across multiple social situations and community settings.
abstract: We evaluated a behavioral intervention for a 9-year-old girl with selective mutism. The intervention consisted of role play and video self-modeling. The frequency of spoken initiations, responses to questions, and communication breakdowns was measured during three social situations (i.e., ordering in a restaurant, meeting new adults, and playing with new children) and in three community settings. Results demonstrated increases in spoken initiations and responses and decreases in communication breakdowns across all situations and settings.
authors.affiliation: Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Texas State University-San Marcos, Texas 78666, USA. russlang@txstate.edu
authors.forename: Russell
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lang
authors.forename: April
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Regester
authors.forename: Austin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mulloy
authors.forename: Mandy
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rispoli
authors.forename: Amanda
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Botout
mesh_terms: D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009155:Mutism / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D010988:Play and Playthings; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012919:Social Behavior; D014741:Video Recording