mutism

Both parents and teachers need to be involved in the treatment of selective mutism.

As a young child, England was diagnosed with selective mutism.

Children with selective mutism, especially when they have severe social anxiety, may also look like this.

Selective mutism is normally discovered when the child first starts school.

Medication, when used, should never be considered the entire treatment for a person with selective mutism.

Experts say that Emily's story is typical of children with selective mutism.

Online support group for parents, teachers and professionals dealing with selective mutism.

Some of topics in the novel include selective mutism, death and grief.

Both of these books are set in elementary school and specifically mention selective mutism.

With more severe impairment there may be echolalia or mutism.

But she says overcoming mutism is not unlike beating drug addiction.

Indeed, a kind of paranoid mutism has become epidemic.

But selective mutism prevails on this very important issue.

For some patients, sectioning may be followed by a brief spell of mutism.

Jeremy had attributed the fat man's mutism to general surliness.

Her sister mentioned something called selective mutism, but quickly said that couldn't apply to Emily.

Few doctors are willing to treat selective mutism, and fewer still achieve results.

These are examples of the mutism plot still being in play but not being given direct attention.

Elective mutism is often attributed to defiance or the effect of trauma.

But once she started reading about the condition, she said, "I knew it really was selective mutism."

Despite its prevalence, selective mutism is still widely misunderstood and often ignored.

Recent evidence has shown that trauma doesn't explain why most children with selective mutism develop the condition.

The prevalence of mutism from all causes is on the order of 0.8 persons per 1000.

Selective mutism itself is almost nonexistent in pop culture.

To reflect the involuntary nature of this disorder, the name was changed to selective mutism in 1994.