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Selective mutism would manifest only in particular social situations rather than globally.
Damage can occur to the basal ganglia or to the frontal lobes which control initiation of speech, causing mutism when damaged.
Selective mutism is an anxiety disorder that is usually specific to certain settings, such as a school classroom.
In all four cases the most characteristic symptoms were mental deterioration, urinary and fecal incontinence, gait disturbance and mutism.
Radiotherapy can have a number of adverse long term side effects including mutism, infertility and IQ diminution.
For the past four years, Isla has suffered with selective mutism, a growing and devastating anxiety-based mental health disorder.
Cerebellar mutism syndrome is a well-defined syndrome which is observed rarely after wide removal of posterior fossa tumors.
She was pulled from the water but had been in a condition known as akinetic mutism until her death.
While selective mutism is a daunting challenge for parents, professionals, and schools, there is an upside.
Catatonic schizophrenia is marked by striking motor behaviour, such as remaining motionless in a rigid posture for hours or even days, and by stupor, mutism, or agitation.
It was not until the Napsbury Mental Hospital that Opal was formally diagnosed with schizophrenia, but as early as 1916, she suffered a nervous breakdown that reportedly led to three months of mutism.
In this state, known clinically as akinetic mutism, the patient's eyes can still move and they may appear to be following what is going on around them, but in fact the patient is not aware of their surroundings at this stage.
According to interviewees, this fragility, and in some cases, this trauma is reflected in the following behaviours: mutism, refusal to answer, shyness, crying, isolation, absence from school.
He had selective mutism and difficulty developing relationships, and was placed outside the Kirklees area but he wanted to return.
There was an especially moving moment when Ashley, who also has selective mutism, chatted happily at length with the boys.
Her mother doesn't even pretend to understand why her daughter has elective mutism and spends most of her time pursuing her burgeoning art career.
Posterior fossa syndrome is characterized by transient mutism, emotional lability, cognitive deficits, weakness, ataxia, and cranial nerve dysfunction.
Selective mutism is a childhood disorder that most school psychologists and educational providers will come across at least once in their careers.
Importantly, Ned's comments are from the perspective of a child who has Selective Mutism and Asperger's Syndrome.
Selective Mutism is an example of extreme social phobia at an early age.
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Examples from Classical Literature
When deafness is associated with mutism, he thinks it is often due merely to the inattention of the stuporous state.
The most constant feature was her mutism, but even that was a few times interrupted.
Dumb walls merely, their mutism leaves large scope to imagination, and one may conjecture any but the right thing.
Cousin Primitivo himself, with all the wisdom of the ancients, could not draw him out of his mutism.
It is not unlike the ordinary stupor in the fact that there was intense inactivity and mutism with great tenseness.
During the night she is reported to have varied between stiffness with mutism and a more relaxed state.
Later, this was followed by mutism, refusal to eat, and stupor.
Her mutism and refusal of food she was unable to account for.
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