All about anxiety disorder that makes kids go silent in specific social situations Belle* is six years old. Like many children, she is a playful and often boisterous child at home with her family.

With over 30 years of experience, I work with children, teens, and adults dealing with all forms of anxiety (e.g. Selective Mutism, OCD, Panic Disorder, Generalized Anxiety, Fear of Vomiting, ...

March 27, 2006 — -- Imagine a world where anyone and anyplace outside the comforts of home elicit fear and anxiety so paralyzing that you shut down and cannot speak. That's the reality for 7-year ...

A teenager who spent years battling selective mutism, a disorder which meant she could only talk to members of her own family, has revealed how she managed to overcome her fear of speaking to ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- It affects hundreds of thousands of children who can communicate with no problems at home yet find themselves speechless in social settings. It's a struggle that Ysabel Sotolongo, 8, ...

Maya Larholm is a lively, talkative four-year-old with what her mother Alyson describes as a 'cheeky sense of humour' and 'a very stubborn streak'. Yet to Maya's classmates, teachers and indeed many ...

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 ...

A mum says families are being left "isolated" in areas which have "poor care" for children with selective mutism. Joanna Turner's four-year-old daughter was diagnosed with the anxiety-based mental ...

Joanna Turner felt unsupported after her daughter, Lucy, was diagnosed with selective mutism A mum says families are being left "isolated" in areas which have "poor care" for children with selective ...