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mutism

Another word for dumbness. Inability to speak may be innate or acquired (due to brain damage or disease); elective mutism is where the person chooses not to speak.



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Topics addressed include linguistic influence on the developmental neural basis of "theory of mind," the deferential effects of context and isolated word training on reading fluency, the electrophysiological correlates of developmental dyslexia, content and language integrated learning, selective mutism, and the early communicative channel in childhood.
Edward, who has selective mutism, started to whisper in their ears and has since made huge improvements.
Byline: ANI London, Sept 8 (ANI): Donkeys have helped a five-year-old boy suffering from selective mutism - a severe childhood anxiety disorder in which a person who is normally capable of speech is unable to speak in given situations -to "find his voice".
 
 
 
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