S. Elizabeth Kortlander, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist
How is it that a child who is full of life– animated, loud, and often precocious intellectually–can suddenly shut down in certain settings, stop any vocalizations, become “stone faced”, and even have difficulty navigating physically through her world? A child with selective mutism can actually display such an on/off switch. [...]
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Selective Mutism: The Puzzling Sound of Silence
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children, mutism, selective on May 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »