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Im 13 and I'm the same way.Its a medicial condition called 'Selective Mutism'.I've been to several people and even been put on medicine and it hasn't helped.But my parents and I are trying.We've recently learned not to pressure them to talk or little things like that.My teachers would give me a mini whiteboard to write my answer down or I would write it on a ...

Our 3.5 year old had exactly the same pattern recently develop. All of a sudden at day care he wouldn't say a word to anyone, but at pre-school, at play group, here at home, basically everywhere else he was "normal". A quick bit of fly on the wall observation showed he was being bullied outside the teacher's observation at day care and his reaction was to ...

As a speech language pathologist I have worked with several children with Elective or Selective Mutism. From my experience, early intervention results in the best outcome. At age 12, her patterns are now strongly engrained and makes a difficult communication problem even more challenging. From her non verbal responses, a more thorough understanding of the ...

I work with a 14 year old girl who has selective mutism. I've been spending a couple of hours every weekday with her for 5-6 months now and a couple of weeks ago she said "hey" to me, just the once, and that was the only time I'd ever heard her voice. I highly doubt there's anything you can actively do to help her through this. The only thing you can do is ...

My 5yo son has done this in many new environments, including the first preschool we put him in. In his preschool, he did not talk to any students or teachers for about 4 months. It was particularly bad because he was potty trained, but he wouldn't tell anybody he had to go to the bathroom, so he was regularly having accidents at school. Then, all of the ...