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

Children with selective mutism do not speak at school or in other public places where others might hear them, or they speak only in a barely audible whisper. These children speak freely and easily, ...

Many years ago, early in my clinical training, a couple brought their 7-year-old daughter to see me. The parents were perplexed. The girl, whom I'll call Emily, was rambunctious at home, but would ...

Noah has selective mutism, a childhood anxiety disorder characterized by the inability to speak in social settings. So most days while he is at preschool, his mother, Julie Nicodemus, is in an empty ...

Q: My five-year-old daughter started kindergarten this year and I have been getting a lot of calls from her teacher about issues in the classroom. Her teacher keeps telling me that my daughter does ...

A multitalented 11-year-old girl is hitting the big time, but her success was nearly silenced forever. "I've been playing piano for nine years since I was 2," said Rachel Ling Gordon. Gordon, who is ...

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 ...

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

World of Dance premiered Tuesday night, and while viewers got a lot of what they expected (i.e., really great dance routines), they also got something totally unexpected, too. The Crazy 8's, a group ...

A multitalented 11-year-old girl is hitting the big time, but her success was nearly silenced forever. "I've been playing piano for nine years since I was 2," said Rachel Ling Gordon. Gordon, who is ...