Selective Mutism Awareness month

It is not a well known fact, but October is Selective Mutism Awareness month. It was first introduced by the UK based SMIRA group a few years ago. I tried to do my part on this side of the ocean. I was able to have a local newspaper come to our home and set up an interview to discuss SM and notify the public of our awareness walk. I also contacted many TV stations in Canada and the US, but none of them ever returned contact. I was not necessarily wanting them to do an article on our daughter specifically, I wanted to reach a larger audience to make SM more commonly known.

It doesn't need to be October to spread awareness. Does anyone out there want to help spread the word, or has anyone else done so in the past? 

A quick overview

In August of 2007 my wife and I found out that one of our daughters had selective mutism. We had never heard of it and didn't believe there was such a condition. After doing some research, we discovered that our daughter fit most of the traits of a selectively mute child.


I  created a selective mutism support group on Facebook, and then created a selective mutism forum (which was later added to my website, but is no longer active due to some corrupt code during an upgrade).

The website is still online, but I have not updated in a long time because I didn't do a proper backup of the file when I left my last job. A Voice for selective mutism The information is still useful and it includes something that can't be found anywhere else on the internet, a diary of my daughter's progress as she took medication as part of her treatment.