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

The question came from the worried kindergarten director at Littlehampton Primary School and Preschool in the Adelaide Hills. “That’s when I said to her, ‘Look, I think you’ve got me confused with ...

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

In February, a partnership of 17 mental health organizations published a report calling for an investment in school-based mental health to address the complex and growing mental health needs of ...

A Brockton teacher helped a 9-year-old student with selective mutism speak at school for the first time. Melody Edward, a teacher at Dessalines S.T.E.A.M. Academy, used the student's doll to build ...

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 ...

GREAT NECK, N.Y., April 18, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- An estimated 1 in 700 children have selective mutism (speaking phobia). Adult numbers are unknown, and treatment options remain vague. But ...