22/09/2026
🗣️ When words won't come... what's happening beneath the silence?
Join us at the next Café Scientifique where expert Speech & Language Therapist and Selective Mutism specialist, Anna Biavati Slt will be discussing her work supporting children, young people, families, schools and professionals, particularly in the areas of Selective Mutism and anxiety- related communication difficulties. She’ll be sharing how safety, anxiety and connection influence a child’s ability to communicate, and why sometimes a child can desperately want to speak, yet their brain and body simply won’t allow them to.
📅 5 October
⏰ 7:00 - 8:30pm
📍 Waterstones, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
Book your free place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cafe-scientifique-when-words-wont-come-glasgow-sauchiehall-st-tickets-2001389945202
Anna is a highly specialised Speech and Language Therapist with a particular interest in Selective Mutism, anxiety and communication. For more than 20 years, she’s worked with children, young people and their families, trying to understand not simply why a child isn’t speaking, but what might be happening underneath their silence. Her work – firstly, for the NHS and now in independent practice - brings together communication, psychology and our understanding of the nervous system.
As well as being founder of the acclaimed programme, Steps to Brave Talking – and creator of the Brave Muscle Method™, Anna’s also author of My Brain Land, a children’s book that uses simple language, stories and metaphors to help children understand their brain, their emotions and why sometimes their words can feel difficult to access.
She says: “At the heart of everything I do is one idea: before we expect speech, we need to understand safety. I believe that when we understand what is happening underneath a child's behaviour, we stop simply trying to make them speak - and start creating the conditions in which communication can grow.”
