Outside Voice Selective Mutism Day Camp
Outside Voice Selective Mutism Camp
Does your child have difficulty speaking in school? Talking to peers and new adults? Communicating his or her needs? Outside Voice Selective Mutism Day Camp can help! Outside Voice typically takes place in a rented private school space during holiday breaks, allowing your child to grow confident speaking in a real-life school environment. Our expert counselors will help your child conquer their anxiety around speaking and will help them start to use their “Outside Voice.” Our counselors include local mental health, school, and medical professionals, including local family medicine resident physicians that are trained by our specialists. Having these professionals serve as camp counselors allows your child to grow in bravery while also training local professionals on how to help individuals with Selective Mutism within their profession. Our mission serves to not only help your child speak freely, but also to increase the number of ‘helpers’ in our community who will be able to accurately assess and help those struggling with SM.
Brave talking skills practiced at camp
At Outside Voice, your child will work on mastering the following goals:
- Speaking with a new adult (counselor)
- Speaking with a new peer
- Raising their hand in a group setting
- Presenting to the group
- Making brave guesses
- Engaging in spontaneous speech with counselor(s) and peer(s)
- Asking for “Help”
- Eating with peers
- Participating in celebrations
- Asking to use the restroom (and actually using it; all attendees must be fully potty trained)
- Using common greetings (e.g., “Hello,” “Goodbye,” Name Introduction, and saying “Please” and “Thank You”)
Camp Activities
In order to assist your child with making progress toward their goals, your child will participate in variety of fun activities to promote Brave Talking skills.
- Talent Show / Demonstrations
- Birthday Party
- Show-and-Tell
- Mock visit from a doctor or dentist
- Field trip and exposure activities where your child will have the chance to show off their “Outside Voice!”
- Parent fade-in sessions where parents have the opportunity to practice learned skills with in the camp environment
- Cognitive-Behavioral based education sessions about anxiety and practice with coping skills
- Additional exposure activities within the community
Camp Package
The 4-day Outside Voice Camp
$4060.00
There are 3 components to camp that are included in the camp package.
Parent Training Sessions:
In order to support one another while learning and fine-tuning the skills necessary to help your child work on using their “Outside Voice” long after camp has ended, parents will engage in parent-skills sessions. These sessions are 2 hours in length and occur virtually. Exclusive access to our private facebook group that is just for our past and present camp families to connect.
Outside Voice Camp:
Our 4-day Selective Mutism camp
Post-Camp Follow-up:
45 minute follow-up phone call with the Camp Leader to discuss progress post-camp.
Intake Evaluation and Camp Readiness Session(s) are not included in the camp package.
Payment Information
Registration: After the initial evaluation is complete and it is determined that your child is appropriate for camp, a $500.00 non-refundable registration fee is required in order to secure your child’s place at Outside Voice. This fee will be applied to the cost of camp. Registration will be due at the end of the intake session.
Camp: Final payments must be made 30 calendar days before the first day of camp.
Refund Policy: If there is a refund request made more than 30-days in advance of the camp start date, you will receive a refund of 100% of registration fees except the non-refundable deposit ($500.00), intake, and camp readiness sessions. If the refund request is within 30-days or less of the camp start date, you will receive a refund on all payments except $950.00.
We accept PPO/OON insurance plans. For those needing financial assistance or deferred payments, learn more here.