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