Learn all about Dr. Elisa Shipon-Blum’s popular visual tool, The Social Communication Bridge©.  The Bridge is used within Social Communication Anxiety Treatment (S-CAT®), where Selective Mutism is understood as a social communication anxiety disorder.

In Part 1, Dr. E and co-host Alex Collins discuss:

  • How and Why the Social Communication Bridge® was developed
  • How to determine an individual’s stage of communication, in each setting, using the Social Communication Anxiety Inventory©
  • Key strategies to progress an individual across the Bridge, into speech.
  • The importance of respecting a child, teen or adults’ stage on the Bridge
  • And much, much more!