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

A Brockton teacher helped a 9-year-old student with selective mutism speak at school for the first time. Melody Edward, a teacher at Dessalines S.T.E.A.M. Academy, used the student's doll to build ...

Some people have a hard time curating responses and communicating with people when they are in group settings. They typically have several reasons that cause them to become non-verbal while in these ...

Whether selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) reduces mortality among patients undergoing mechanical ventilation and whether it adversely affects microbial ecology in the intensive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. My kindergarten class sat around an oval-shaped table as students passed the ball from one person to the next. When it was our ...

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 ...

Aimee Grant receives funding from The Wellcome Trust, MRC and ESRC. Around a third of autistic people – children and adults alike – are unable to share what they want using speech. You may have heard ...

The star of Hou Hsiao-Hsien's 'Millennium Mambo' and 'The Assassin' gets behind the camera for the first time in a portrait of family violence set in 1980s Taiwan. By Jordan Mintzer Outside her home ...

You may think your spouse’s "selective hearing" is a choice — but science argues otherwise. The phenomenon of selective hearing is more than choosing when or when not to listen, according to a recent ...