Melanie Manderino is finally ready to talk. The 18-year-old struggled with selective mutism, an extreme anxiety disorder in which someone is unable to speak in social settings, for the better part of ...

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 ...

"Note that the word 'mute' is regarded by linguists as an onomatopoeic formation referring not to silence but to a certain fundamental opacity of human being, which likes to show the truth by allowing ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Robin Williams said in the 1989 film “Dead Poets Society,” “You must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.” Recently, 11 ...

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 ...