Selective mutismSensory avoidanceJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders - The present study addressed the different contributors to social anxiety in children with Selective Mutism (SM), with and without co-occurring Autism...doi:10.1007/s10803-022-05674-0Ludlow, Amanda K....
Selective mutism was first mentioned in the 19th century by Kussmaul (1877), who described a disorder in which people would not speak in some situations, despite having the ability to speak. Tramer (1934) labeled the disorder elective mutism, with the belief that these children were "electing"...
Selective mutism (SM) is a psychological condition usually occurring during childhood that is characterized by a total absence of speech in specific social situations while speech production appears to be normal in other situations. For example, children with SM may not respond...
Selective abortion, also known as selective reduction, refers to choosing to abort a fetus, typically in a multi-fetal pregnancy, to decrease the health risks to the mother in carrying and giving birth to more than one or two babies, and also to decrease the risk of complications to the re...
Internal consistency of FAM-III scales ranges from .60 to .87 (in this study and others [43]). 2.3. Procedure. Potential participants were recruited using two distinct sources. Parents of children with SM were recruited via the web-based Selective Mutism Group∼ Child Anxiety Network (http:...
They are a collation of the different behaviours evidenced from children with SM and it is hoped that these examples provide insight into the wide range of presentations of SM. These presentations are not representative of all the types of presentation of SM. The article below written by ...
Black B, Uhde TW (1994) Treatment of elective mutism with fluoxetine: a double-blind, placebo-controlled study.JAmerAcad Child Adolesc Psychiat33: 701–703 Stein MB, Liebowitz Lydiard RB, Pitts CD, Bushnell W, Gergel I (1998) Paroxetine treatment of generalized social phobia (social anxiety...
This is being suggested to reduce those behaviours that aggravate selective mutism.Eriega E.GWilliams A. AIsukwem G. COjo T. T
Parental advocacy and safe environments provided opportunities for children to better manage contextually based mutism. Improvements in identification and compassionate understanding from wider systems by involving parents as key stakeholders are essential to improve this situation.S. Keville...
In this definitive guide to selective mutism the latest research and understanding are consolidated in chapters from experts in the fields of speech therapy, psychology, music therapy and education and communication. It includes...doi:10.1111/bjop.12127Nigel Foreman...