Melanie Manderino has finally found her voice after dealing with selective mutism for the better part of her life

Melanie Manderino has finally found her voice after dealing with selective mutism for the better part of her life ...

My daughter struggles at school. Simple acts of kindness would go a long way.

Inclusion doesn’t take away from academics; it builds stronger classrooms where students feel seen, valued, and ready to ...
Psychology Today

Scared Speechless: Children with Selective Mutism

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 ...
Jewish Press

Selective (Or Elective) Mutism

Q: My five-year-old daughter started kindergarten this year and I have been getting a lot of calls from her teacher about issues in the classroom. Her teacher keeps telling me that my daughter does ...
AOL

I Barely Spoke for the First 13 Years of My Life — Here's How I Became 'The Girl Who Doesn't Talk' (Exclusive)

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 ...
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Combined Emphasis in Empirically Supported Assessment Treatment of ADHD, Executive Functioning & Selective Mutism Externship

NYU Langone’s Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry offers Combined Emphasis in Empirically Supported Assessment ...
Houston Chronicle

Experts, families search for ways to draw children out of selective mutism

Noah has selective mutism, a childhood anxiety disorder characterized by the inability to speak in social settings. So most days while he is at preschool, his mother, Julie Nicodemus, is in an empty ...