A Next Step for Students with Selective Mutism: Bringing Your Student’s/Client’s Voice from Your Room into the Classroom/Larger World
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
9:00am-3:30pm
Snow Date: Friday, January 30, 2026
Investment: $199.00
PO’s are welcome – email me for details
Overview
Many students with selective mutism make gains speaking one-to-one with trusted adults, yet struggle to generalize those skills to classroom & beyond. This engaging, evidence-based, training equips school teams with consistent, scalable strategies—through modeled interventions & guided practice—to build brave voice muscles, support measurable progress, & expanded communication across environments.
Target Audience
Any school staff member or private practitioners who will be serving as the “keyworker” (i.e. brave voice helper) for a student with selective mutism. Frequent staff members for this role include; private mental health practitioners, private practice SLPs, special educators, case managers, speech language pathologists, SLAs, school counselors, school social workers, and school psychologists. This is a helpful training for staff who have taken a previous training as well as staff who are new to the brave voice journey.
Learner Objectives
- Describe a fade-in
- Explain how and why to break a given brave step into smaller components
- Illuminate the importance of data-based monthly progress monitoring
- Elucidate when medication may be a necessary part of your student’s plan
- Defend why brave voice interventions are critically important
Successful completion of these outcomes will be determined via a five question self-assessment.
Continuing Education Information
In order to earn a certificate of completion, learners will be expected to;
- be present for the entire presentation
- sign in and out
- answer a five question self-assessment by 2/10/26
- Partial credit is not available for this course
- No credit is available for self-assessments submitted after 2/10/26
Schedule
9:00-9:10am – Course overview and speaker disclosures
9:10-9:25am – A brief review of selective mutism
9:25-9:31am – Choosing your starting points – The critical need for an initial evaluation
9:31-9:39am – An overview of brave voice supports
9:39-9:40am –The pep talk
9:40-9:45am – Guided practice giving the pep talk to your student
9:45-10:00am – The magic of fade-ins – What they are & how to do them
10:00am – 10:15 – Guided practice
10:30-10:45am – Break
10:45-11:45pm – Guided practice carrying out a fade-in
11:45-12:00pm – Small group breakouts for discussion
12:00–12:30pm – Lunch Break – Assorted sandwiches and drinks will be provided
12:30-12:42pm – Helping your student share their voice across new settings and tasks
12:42-1:02pm – Special considerations for tweens and teens
1:02-1:30pm – Guided practice
1:30-1:45pm – The how-to-guide for monthly progress monitoring
1:45pm-1:50pm – When is medication necessary?
1:50-2:05pm – Break
2:05pm-2:30pm – Tackling the higher realms of communication
2:30pm-3:15pm – Guided practice
3:15-3:30pm – Bringing all the pieces together and a message of hope
**Training is on-site at The Loft, located at 125 Main Street, Suite E, Newmarket NH. Please click here for directions.
Annie DiVello M.S., CCC-SLP; M.Ed.
Presenter
Annie is a licensed and ASHA certified Speech-Language Pathologist. She is also one of 85 clinicians around the world certified in PCIT-SM. Annie has lived and worked across the country in West Virginia, Georgia, South Central Los Angeles, and New England. Though she has worked with many populations, Annie’s particular area of clinical interest is selective mutism. She enjoys providing trainings for school teams across the nation on the topic of SM. In New England, Annie provides school-based selective mutism evaluations and works collaboratively with teams to build and implement integrated plans of support. Annie is a Selective Mutism Association State Coordinator for NH, MA, & ME. She is passionate about her field and about helping individuals to find their voices. Annie feels the ability to communicate is a beautiful gift and the foundation of the human connection. Empowering school teams to bring their students’ brave voices to school is one of her greatest joys.
Speaker’s Disclosures:
- Founder – Our Brave Voices (receives a percentage of attendee registration fees)
- PCIT-SM Cooperative Offering with Dr. Steve Kurtz – Kurtz Psychology
Complaint Procedure
It is my mission to provide current, evidence-based, and meaningful information to meet your learning needs. I seek to closely follow the learning objectives outlined in each course description. I hope you will leave each training with feeling inspired and equipped with take-away tools and ready to apply knowledge.
If you are dissatisfied for any reason, please email me within 30 days of the event and state why your learning needs were not met. It would be helpful if you could provide examples of how/why the course content differed from the course outline and learning objectives. I would be happy to offer you a different course free of charge and/or to meet with you 1:1 to talk through your concerns. Providing helpful and satisfactory trainings is of the utmost importance to me. If my training has not met your needs, please allow me the opportunity to ameliorate the situation.
Refund Policy
If Our Brave Voices cancels a course due to extenuating circumstances, all registered attendees will be refunded fully to their original form of payment within 15 days of the cancellation notice. If an attendee cancels their registration with at least 24 hours of a scheduled event, they will be refunded in full minus a $10.00 processing fee. Cancellations made with less than 24 hours from a scheduled event are non-refundable.
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- Using a PCI-Compliant online payment system
- Using Site Lock to create a secure website for visitors
- Keeping all records pertaining attendees within the cloud provided by Kilpatrick IT Solutions
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Don’t miss out… seats are limited!
Join us on Wedneday, January 30th, 2026, for an interactive on-site training at The Loft in Newmarket, NH. This course will equip you with proven strategies and tools to help your students/clients with selective mutism find their brave voices.
With only 10 seats available, secure your spot today!
