Selective mutism support
Vetted shadow teachers, special educators and tutors for children with selective mutism, at school and at home, working to the plans your child's clinicians set.
Educational support and BCBA-supervised ABA, working alongside your child's clinicians.
What usually helps
4 things the adults around the child can do
Who we place
Shadow teachers, special educators and remedial tutors
Where
Present in 55 cities, online tutoring anywhere in India
Chapter 1
What a child with selective mutism usually needs
No pressure to speak, and no rewards or punishments tied to talking
Other ways to take part in the meantime: pointing, nodding, writing, picture cards
Small, planned steps towards speech, set by the child's clinician
One trusted adult at school who understands the plan and keeps to it
Chapter 2
How a shadow teacher or special educator helps
A shadow teacher or special educator for a child with selective mutism is often the first adult at school the child can relax with. They take away the pressure to speak, give the child other ways to answer and join in, and help teachers and classmates stop asking the child to talk. Working to the plan from the child's psychologist or psychiatrist, they carry out the small, graded steps towards speaking in new places and with new people, and record each one.
Chapter 3 · Where our role ends
Selective mutism is an anxiety condition, not shyness or defiance. It is diagnosed and treated by a child psychologist or child psychiatrist, sometimes with a speech-language pathologist involved. Our professionals follow that treatment plan in the classroom and at home; they do not design it.
Chapter 4
Your child's team, working as one
With your consent, we build the child-support profile with the school and with any therapist, psychologist or paediatrician already involved, so the professional arrives knowing the plan rather than guessing at it. Monthly reports go to you, and to them if you wish.
Family
Sets the priorities, knows the child best
School
Class teacher, inclusion coordinator, IEP
Clinicians
Assess, diagnose and set therapy plans
Our professional
Carries the plan into every hour of the day
Your child
One plan, one record, everyone reading it
Chapter 5
Questions families ask
Can a shadow teacher or special educator help a child with selective mutism?+
A shadow teacher or special educator for a child with selective mutism is often the first adult at school the child can relax with. They take away the pressure to speak, give the child other ways to answer and join in, and help teachers and classmates stop asking the child to talk. Working to the plan from the child's psychologist or psychiatrist, they carry out the small, graded steps towards speaking in new places and with new people, and record each one.
Is this therapy?+
No. Selective mutism is an anxiety condition, not shyness or defiance. It is diagnosed and treated by a child psychologist or child psychiatrist, sometimes with a speech-language pathologist involved. Our professionals follow that treatment plan in the classroom and at home; they do not design it.
Do you have Hindi-speaking professionals experienced with selective mutism?+
Where the candidate pool allows, yes. English is always guaranteed; Hindi and regional-language placements are arranged on the brief.
Where in India?+
We are present in 55 cities across India, including Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, and remedial tutoring also runs online anywhere in India. Choose your city below for local schools, neighbourhoods and languages.
By city
Selective mutism support in your city
We are present in 55 cities across India. Choose yours for the local schools, neighbourhoods and languages.
- Agra
- Ahmedabad
- Amritsar
- Bengaluru
- Bhopal
- Bhubaneswar
- Chandigarh
- Chennai
- Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar
- Coimbatore
- Dehradun
- Delhi NCR
- Dhanbad
- Ghaziabad
- Guwahati
- Gwalior
- Hubballi-Dharwad
- Hyderabad
- Indore
- Jabalpur
- Jaipur
- Jamshedpur
- Jodhpur
- Kanpur
- Kochi
- Kolkata
- Kota
- Kozhikode
- Lucknow
- Ludhiana
- Madurai
- Mangaluru
- Meerut
- Mumbai
- Mysuru
- Nagpur
- Nashik
- Noida
- Patna
- Pimpri-Chinchwad
- Prayagraj
- Pune
- Raipur
- Rajkot
- Ranchi
- Solapur
- Srinagar
- Surat
- Thane
- Thiruvananthapuram
- Tiruchirappalli
- Vadodara
- Varanasi
- Vijayawada
- Visakhapatnam
Further reading
Reading on selective mutism
Talk to a specialist
Not sure what your child needs yet?
Many families come to us before there is a diagnosis. Tell us what the school has said, and we will say plainly whether we can help, or whether a clinician should come first.