Melanie Manderino has finally found her voice after dealing with selective mutism for the better part of her life ...
NYU Langone’s Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry offers Combined Emphasis in Empirically Supported Assessment ...
As a child, Erin Silvia struggled to speak to anyone other than her parents and two of her siblings, due to the anxiety disorder selective mutism Teachers didn't understand her, and peers often ...
Many years ago, early in my clinical training, a couple brought their 7-year-old daughter to see me. The parents were perplexed. The girl, whom I'll call Emily, was rambunctious at home, but would ...
After nearly four years of war and repeated trauma, scores of Ukrainian children are developing severe speech disorders, ...
What do you do when your autistic child simply stops speaking to you at home? Richard Shrubb investigates the experience of the Dyer family on the Isle of Wight What do you do when your autistic child ...
WASHINGTON — Fairfax County, Va., school officials determined that Seung Hui Cho suffered from an anxiety disorder so severe that they put him in special education and devised a plan to help him, ...
Cerebellar Mutism Syndrome (CMS) is a complex neurobehavioural disorder primarily affecting children following surgical resection of posterior fossa tumours. Characterised by transient loss or severe ...