Inability to speak, often caused by a speech disorder or mental disorder.
1 This organization offers support for parents of children with selective mutism .
2 The end state is akinetic mutism , a kind of waking coma.
3 A child's failure to speak-calledselective mutism - has many possible explanations.
4 Other children suffer from elective mutism , panic attacks and anxiety, it said in a statement.
5 Social phobia in very young children often is seen as a closely related disorder: selective mutism .
6 May 11:-Flexibilitascerea more marked; mutism ; retention of saliva; eats food voluntarily; bowels require frequent attention.
7 My mutism when I was a child was probably the result of the shock, the trauma.
8 A secondary analysis of 27 participants with mutism revealed similar localization of lesions and lesion-associated networks.
9 I have had some experience with selective mutism .
10 Later in the disease course he developed dystonia of his left leg, pathological crying, mutism and dysphagia.
11 She has been diagnosed with selective mutism .
12 These patients are subject to severe maniacal outbreaks, motor excitements, mutism , attacks of anxious, delirious states, with confusion, etc.
13 Most of the children we treat for selective mutism and social phobia simply couldn't do the work without the medication.
14 There's selective mutism as well, but a lot of that is in really young children, and this was at secondary school.
15 If at two years the child makes no attempt at speech, suspicions should be aroused concerning mutism or other serious nervous defects.
16 The girl had been only six at the time and the fear of losing her mother had exacerbated the selective mutism condition.
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