The SMIRA Leaflet for Professionals and other materials on the website should provide plenty of practical suggestions.

The rest of the class will pick up the teacher's attitude towards the Selectively Mute pupil. Any labelling of the SM child by other pupils as 'non-speaking' should be challenged. The child can speak, but they feel too anxious to do so in that particular setting, so anxiety reduction is the priority.

Selective Mutism is not usually highlighted as an additional need requiring access arrangements in the regulations for public examinations, but that does not preclude negotiation over individual cases between the parent, the school and the examination board.