SELECTIVE MUTISM INFORMATION & RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
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N.B. Although this list is extensive, it is not exhaustive. Researchers should conduct their own document searches, especially for more recent publications.
Contents
Books and Manuals on SM
Chapters on SM in other books
Classification of SM
Cohort Studies, Case Studies and Co-morbidity with SM
Incidence Level and Population Surveys
Intervention and Identification
Assessment
Behavioural Methods
CBT
Combined Methods and Multimodal Approaches
Drugs and other medical methods
Psychotherapy
Therapeutic Methods
Literature Reviews on SM and its treatment
Research – Comparative Studies with SM
Research into Anxiety, ASD, Inhibition, Language, Social Phobia, etc.
UK Government, Local Government, NHS and Care Pathways
Books and Manuals on SM
Bergman, R. Lindsey (2013) ‘Programs that work. Treatment for Children with Selective Mutism. An Integrative Behavioural Approach. Therapists Guide’. New York. OUP.
Cline, Tony and Baldwin, Sylvia (2004) ‘Selective Mutism in Children. Second Edition.’ London and Philadelphia: Whurr.
Collins, Janet (1996) ‘The Quiet Child.’ London: Casssell.
Dillon, Jane and Maloney, Alison (2013) ‘Jessi-cat: the cat that unlocked a boy’s heart’ London. Michael O’Mara Books.
Johnson, Maggie and Jones, Michael (2012) ‘Supporting Quiet Children: Exciting Ideas and Activities to help ‘Reluctant Talkers’ become ‘Confident Talkers’. Birmingham. Lawrence Educational Publications.
Johnson, Maggie and Wintgens, Alison (2012) ‘Can I tell you about Selective Mutism? A guide for friends, family and professionals.’ London. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Johnson, Maggie and Wintgens, Alison (2016) ‘The Selective Mutism Resource Manual (Second Edition).’ London: Speechmark.
Katz-Bernstein, Nitza (2013) ‘Selective Mutism in Children. Manifestations, Diagnosis, Therapy. 3rd Edition’ Verlag, Munich. Ernst Reinhart.
Kearney, Christopher A. (2010) ‘Helping Children with Selective Mutism and their Parents: A Guide for School-based Professionals.’ Oxford: OUP
Kotrba, Aimee (2015) ‘Selective Mutism. An assessment and Intervention Guide for Therapists, Educators and Parents.’ Eau Claire, Wisconsin: PESI Publishing and Media.
Kratochwill, Thomas (1981) ‘Selective Mutism: Implications for Research and Treatment’. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Levett, Jo (2015) ‘Can’t talk? Want to talk!’ London. Speechmark Publishing Ltd.
Mac, Donna (2015) ‘Suffering in Silence: Breaking through Selective Mutism.’
Balboa Press. Bloomington, Indiana
McHolm, Angela E., Cunningham, Charles E. and Vanier, Melanie K. (2005) ‘Helping your Child with Selective Mutism.’ Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, Inc.
Perednick, Ruth (2011) ‘The Selective Mutism Treatment Guide: For Parents, Teachers and Therapists. Still Waters Run Deep.’ Jerusalem. Oaklands.
Sage, Rosemary and Sluckin, Alice (eds) (2004) ‘Silent Children: Approaches to Selective Mutism.’ Leicester: SMIRA and University of Leicester.
Smith, Benita Rae and Sluckin, Alice (eds.) (2015) ‘Tackling Selective Mutism. A Guide for Professionals and Parents.’ London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Spasaro, Sheila A. and Schaefer, Charles E. (eds) (1999) ‘Refusal to Speak: Treatment of Selective Mutism in Children.’ Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson Inc.
Sutton, Carl and Forrester, Cheryl (2016) ‘Selective Mutism In Our Own Words.’ London and Philadephia. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Wallace, Marjorie (1986) The Silent Twins. London: Chatto and Windus.
Chapters on SM in other books
Alladin, Assen (2016) ‘Integrative CBT for Anxiety Disorders: An Evidence-Based Approach to Enhancing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with Mindfulness and Hypnotherapy.’ John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (Published online: 9th October 2015) DOI: 10.1002/9781118509869.ch9 – Selective Mutism.
Schäfer, Hanna and Muskett, Tom (2015) ‘Interlocutor Influence on the Communication Behaviours Associated with Selective Mutism.’ Ch. 10 in O’Reilly, Michelle and Lester, Jessica Nina (eds.) (2015) ‘The Palgrave Handbook of Child Mental Health: Discourse and Conversation Studies.’ Springer. (Print) ISBN: 978-1-349-57695-1 (Online) 978-1-137-42831-8
Sluckin, Alice (2006) ‘Helping Selectively Mute Children at School.’ In Hunter-Carsh, M., Tiknar, Y., Cooper, P. and Sage, R. (eds.) The Handbook of Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties. London and New York, NY. Continuum.
Classification of SM
Anstendig, Karin (1999) ‘Is Selective Mutism an Anxiety Disorder? Rethinking its DSM-IV Classification.’ Journal of Anxiety Disorders 13, 4, 417-434.
Cohan, Sharon L., Chavira, Denise A., Shipon-Blum, Elisa, Hitchcock, Carla, Roesch, Scott C. and Stein, Murray B. (2008) ‘Redefining the Classification of Children with Selective Mutism: A Latent Profile Analysis.’ Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 37, 4, 770-784.
Hayden, Torey L. (1980) ‘Classification of Elective Mutism.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 19, 118-133.
Leszczyk, Sue (1993) ‘A Parent Comments on Elective Mutism.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 32, 3, 686.
Leszczyk, Sue (1993) ‘A Parent Comments on Elective Mutism.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 32, 3, 686.
Mulligan, Christy A., Hale, James B. and Shipon-Blum, Elisa (2015) ‘Selective Mutism: Identification of Subtypes and Implications for Treatment.’ Journal of Education and Human Development 4 (1), 79-96
Omdal, Heidi, and Galloway, David (2008) ‘Could Selective Mutism be Re-conceptualised as a Specific Phobia of Expressive Speech? An Exploratory Post-hoc Study.’ Child and Adolescent Mental Health 132, 74-81.
Paniagua, F. A. and Saeed, M. A. (1988) ‘A Procedural Distinction between Elective and Progressive Mutism.’ Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 19, 1, 207-210.
Reed, C. F. (1963) ‘Elective mutism in children: A reappraisal.’ Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 4, 99-107.
Sharp, William G., Sherman, Colleen and Gross, Alan M. (2007) ‘Selective Mutism and Anxiety: A review of the current conceptualization of the disorder.’ Journal of Anxiety Disorders 21, 568-579.
Wright, Harry H. (1994) ‘Selective Mutism continued.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 33, 4, 593.
Cohort Studies, Case Studies and Co-morbidity of SM with other conditions
Black, Bruce and Uhde, Thomas W. (1995) ‘Psychiatric Characteristics of Children with Selective Mutism: A Pilot Study.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 34, 7, 847-856.
Brix Andersson, C. and Hove Thomsen, Per (1998) ‘Electively Mute Children: An Analysis of 37 Danish Cases.’ Nordic Journal of Psychiatry 52, 231-238.
Chavira, Denise A., Shipon-Blum, Elisa, Hitchcock, Carla, Cohan, Sharon and Stein, Murray B. (2007) ‘Selective Mutism and Social Anxiety Disorder: All in the Family?’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 46, 11, 1464-1472.
Crumley, R. E. (1993) ‘Is elective mutism a social phobia?’ Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 32, 5, 1081.
Dummit, E. Steven, Klein, Rachel G., Tancer, Nancy K., Asche, Barbara, Martin, Jacqueline and Fairbanks, Janet A. (1997) ‘Systematic Assessment of 50 children with Selective Mutism.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 36, 5: 653-660.
Eldar, Sophie, Bleich, Avi, Apter, Alan and Tyano, San (1985) ‘Elective mutism – an atypical antecedent of schizophrenia.’ Journal of Adolescence 8, 289-292.
Elizur, Yeol and Perednick, Ruth (2003) ‘Prevalence and Description of Selective Mutism in Immigrant and Native Families: A Controlled Study.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 42, 12, 1451-1459.
Eriega E.G., Williams, Abioun A., Isukwem G. C., Ojo T. T. (2015) ‘Personality and Family Types on Selective Mutism among Adolescents.’ Academic Research International 6 (1), 178-183
Ford, Mary A., Sladeczek, Ingrid E., Carlson, John and Kratochwill, Thomas R. (1998) ‘Selective Mutism: Phenomenological Characteristics.’ School Psychology Quarterly 13, 3, 192-227.
Grosso, Salvatore, Cioni, Maddalene, Pucci, Lucia, Morgese, Guido and Balestria, Paulo (1999) ‘Selective Mutism, speech delays, dysmorphisms, and deletion of the short arm of chromosome 18: a distinct entity?’ Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 67, 6, 830-831.
Hagerman, R. J., Hills, J., Scharfenaker, S. and Lewis, H. (1999) ‘Fragile X Syndrome and Selective Mutism.’ American Journal of Medical Genetics 83, 313-317.
Hirai, Katsuaki, Kimiya, Satoshi, Tabata, Koji, Seki, Tohru, Jozaki, Keiji, Kumagai, Noboru (2002) ‘Selective Mutism and Obsessive Compulsive Disorders associated with zonisamide.’ Seizure 11, 468-470.
Jacobsen, Teresa (1995) ‘Case Study: Is Selective Mutism a Manifestation of Dissociative Identity Disorder?’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 24, 7, 863-866.
Karakaya, I., Siomanlar, S. G., Oc, O.Y., Memik, N. C., Jcoskun, A., Agaoglu, B., Yavuz, C. L. (2008) ‘Selective Mutism: A School-based cross-sectional study from Turkey.’ European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 17, 114-117.
Klin, Ami and Volkmar, Fred R. (1993) ‘Elective Mutism and Mental Retardation.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 32, 4, 860-864.
Kolvin, I. and Fundudis, T. (1981) ‘Elective Mute Children: Psychological Development and Background Factors.’ Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 22, 3, 219-232.
Kristensen. H. (1997) ‘Elective Mutism – associated with developmental disorder/delay. Two case studies.’ European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 6, 234-239.
Kristensen, H. (2000) ‘Selective Mutism and Comorbidity with Developmental Disorder/Delay, Anxiety Disorder and Elimination Disorder.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 39, 2, 249-256.
Kristensen, H. (2001) ‘Multiple informants’ report of emotional and behavioural problems in a nation-wide sample of selective mute children and controls.’ Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 10, 135-142.
Kristensen, Hanne and Torgersen, Svenn (2001) ‘MCM1-11 Personality Traits and Symptom Traits in Parents of Children with Selective Mutism: A CaseControl Study.’ Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1104, 648-652.
Kristensen, H. (2002) ‘Non-specific markers of neuro-developmental disorder/delay in selective mutism: A case-control study.’ European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 11, 71-78.
Kristensen, H. and Torgersen, S. (2002) ‘A case control study of EAS child and parental temperaments in SM children with and without a co-morbid communication disorder.’ Nordic Journal of Psychiatry 56, 347-353.
Kristensen, Hanne and Oerbeck, Beate (2006) ‘Is Selective Mutism associated with deficits in memory span and visual memory?: An exploratory casecontrol study.’ Depression and Anxiety 23, 71-76.
Kussmaul, A. (1877) Die Stoerungen der Sprache 2 (1st ed.) [Disturbances in linguistic function]. Basel, Switzerland: Benno Schwabe.
MacGregor, Ruth, Pullar, Annie and Cundall, David (1994) ‘Silent at school – Elective Mutism and abuse.’ Archive of Diseases in Childhood 70, 540-541.
Newton, R. W. and Wraith, J. E. (1995) ‘An Investigation of Developmental Delay.’ Archive of Diseases in Childhood 72, 460-465.
Omdal, Heidi (2007) ‘Can adults who have recovered from Selective Mutism in childhood and adolescence tell us anything about the nature of the condition and/or recovery from it?’ European Journal of Special Needs Education 22, 3, 237-253.
Remschmidt, Helmut, Poller, Mathias, Herpertz-Dahlmann, B. Hennighausen, K. and Gutenbrunner, C. (2001) ‘A follow-up study of 45 patients with Elective Mutism.’ European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 25,1, 284-296.
Shvarzman, P., Hornshtein, I., Klein, E., Yechezkel, A., Ziv, M. and Herman, J. (1990) ‘Elective mutism in family practice.’ Journal of Family Practice 31, 3, 319-320.
Shreeve, Daniel F. (1991) ‘Elective Mutism: Origins in Stranger Anxiety and Selective Attention.’ in S. A. Spasaro, and C. E. Schaefer (eds) (1999) Refusal to Speak: Treatment of Selective Mutism in Children. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson Inc.
Simons, D., Goode, S. and Fombonne, E. (1997) ‘Elective Mutism and Chromosome 18 Abnormality’ European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 6, 112-114
Stein, M. T., Rapin, I and Yapko, D. (2001) ‘Challenging Case: Developmental Delays and Regressions: Selective Mutism.’ Pediatrics 107, 4, 926-929.
Steinhausen, H-C. and Adamek, R. (1997) ‘The family history of children with Elective Mutism: A Research Report.’ European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 6, 107-111.
Steinhausen, H-C. and Juzi, Claudia (1996) ‘Elective Mutism: An analysis of 100 cases.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 35, 5, 606-614.
Szabo, Christopher Paul (1996) ‘Selective Mutism and Social Anxiety.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 35, 5, 555.
Tramer, M. (1934) ‘Elektiver Mutismus bei Kindern.’ Zeitschrift fur Kinderpsychiatre 1, 30–35.
Taylor, Sharon, Dossetor, David R., Kilham, Henry and Bernard, Elizabeth (2000) ‘The Youngest Case of Pervasive Refusal Syndrome?’ Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 5, 1, 23-29.
Teece, Joanna (2004) ‘What Selective Mutism means to us.’ Archive of Diseases in Childhood 89, 980.
Vecchio, J. and Kearney, C. A. (2005) ‘Selective Mutism in Children: Comparison to Youths with and without Anxiety Disorders.’ Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioural Assessment 271, 31-37.
Walker, Aaron S., and Tobbell, Jane (2015) ‘Lost Voices and Unlived Lives: Exploring Adults’ Experiences of Selective Mutism using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.’ Qualitative Research in Psychology 12, 4, 453-471
Incidence Level and Population Surveys
Bergman, R. L., Piacentini, J. and McCracken, J. T. (2002) ‘Prevalence and Description of Selective Mutism in a School-based Sample.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 41, 8, 938-946.
Kopp, Svenny and Gillberg, C. (1997) ‘Selective Mutism: A Population-based Study: A Research Note.’ Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 382, 257-262.
Kumpulainen, K., Rasanen, E., Raaska, H., and Somppi, V. (1998) ‘Selective Mutism among second graders in Elementary School.’ Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 7, 24-29.
Sharkey, Louise and McNicholas, Fiona (2012) ‘Selective Mutism: A prevalence study of primary school children in the Republic of Ireland.’ Irish Journal of
Psychological Medicine 29 (1), 36-40
Intervention and Identification
Johnson, Maggie and Jones, Michael (2011) ‘Silent Types.’ Nursery World 12-15 July, 24-25.
Johnson, Maggie and Wintgens, Alison (2012) ‘The case to treat early.’ Young Minds 116, 28.
Joseph, Paul. R (1999) ‘Selective Mutism – The Child who doesn’t speak at School.’ Pediatrics. Experience and Reason 104, 308-310.
Kearney, C. A. and Vecchio, J. L. (2007) ‘When a child won’t speak.’ The Journal of Family Practice 56, 11, 917-921.
Segal, Nancy L. (2003) ‘’Two’ Quiet: Monozygotic Female Twins with Selective Mutism.’ Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 8, 4, 473-488.
Shipon-Blum, Eliza (2003) ‘Selective Mutism Comprehensive Diagnostic Questionnaire.’ Selective Mutism Anxiety Research and Treatment Center, USA.
Spasaro, Sheila A., Platt, Jessica and Schaefer, Charles E. (1999) ‘An Introduction to the Treatment of Selective Mutism.’ in S. A. Spasaro, and C. E. Schaefer (eds) (1999) Refusal to Speak: Treatment of Selective Mutism in Children. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson Inc.
Sluckin, Alice (2000) ‘Selective Mutism.’ in J. Law, A. Parkinson and R. Tamhne (eds) Communication Difficulties in Childhood. Oxford: Radcliffe.
Stone, Beth Pionek, Kratochwill, Thomas R., Sladezcek, Ingrid and Serlin, Ronald C., (2002) ‘Treatment of Selective Mutism: A Best Evidence Synthesis. School Psychology Quarterly 17, 2, 168-190.
Toppelberg, C. O., Tabors, Patten, Coggins, Alissa, Lum, Kirk and Burger, Claudia (2005) ‘Differential Diagnosis of Selective Mutism in Bilingual Children.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 44, 6, 592-595.
Assessment
Bergman, R. L., Keller, M. L., Piacentini, J, and Bergman, A. J. (2008) ‘The Development and Psychometric Properties of the Selective Mutism Questionnaire.’ Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology 37, 2, 456-464.
Black, Bruce and Uhde, Thomas W. (1995) ‘Psychiatric Characteristics of Children with Selective Mutism: A Pilot Study.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 34, 7, 847-856.
Cleator, Hilary and Hand, Linda (2001) ‘Selective Mutism: How a successful Speech and Language Assessment really is possible.’ International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 36 (S1), 126-131.
Dow, Sara P., Sonies, Barbara C., Scheib, Donna, Moss, Sharon E. and Leonard, Henrietta L. (1995) ‘Practical Guidelines for the Assessment and Treatment of Selective Mutism.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 24, 7, 836-846.
Gray, R. M., Jordan, C. M., Ziegler, R. S., and Livingston, R.B. (2002) ‘Two sets of twins with SM: Neuropsychological Findings.’ Child Neuropsychology 8, 1, 41-51.
Greenspan, S. J. and Wieders, S. (2008) ‘The Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders Diagnostic Manual for Infants and Young Children – An Overview.’ Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 17, 2, 76-89.
Klein, Evelyn R., Armstrong, Sharon Lee, Shipon-Blum, Elisa (2012) ‘Assessing Spoken Language Competence in Children with Selective Mutism: Using Parents as Test Presenters.’ Communication Disorders Quarterly 20, 10, 1-12.
Lehmann, Christine (2003) ‘Questionnaire Detects Rare Childhood Disorder.’ Psychiatric News (APA) 38, 24, 13.
Letamendi, A. M., Chavira, Denise A., Hitchcock, C. A., Roesch, Scott C., Shipon-Blum, Elisa and Stein, Murray B. (2008) ‘Selective Mutism Questionnaire: Measurement Structure and Validity.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 47, 10, 1197-1204.
McInnes, A., Fung, D, Fiksenbaum, L., and Tannock, R. (2005) ‘Language of Children with SM.’ Word of Mouth 16, 5, 10-12.
Omdal, Heidi and Galloway, David (2007) ‘Interviews with Selectively Mute Children.’ Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties 12, 3, 205-214.
Schill, Melissa T., Kratochwill, Thomas R. and Gardner, William I. (1996) ‘An Assessment Protocol for Selective Mutism: Analogue Assessment using Parents as Facilitators.’ Journal of School Psychology 34, 1, 1-21.
Schwartz, Richard H. and Shipon-Blum, Elisa (2005) ‘‘Shy’ child? Don’t overlook Selective Mutism.’ Contemporary Pediatrics 22, 7, 30-39.
Schwartz, Richard H., Freedy, Alicia S. and Sheridan, Michael J. (2006) ‘Selective Mutism: Are Primary Care Physicians Missing the Silence?’ Clinical Pediatrics 54. 43-48.
Senz, E. H. (1961) ‘The child who does not talk.’ California Medicine 94, 4, 230-232.
Behavioural Methods
Ayllon, T and Kelly, K. (1974) ‘Reinstating verbal behaviour in a functionally mute retardate.’ Professional Psychology, Nov, 385-393.
Bandura, A. (1977) ‘Self-efficacy: toward a unifying theory of behavioral change.’ Psychological Review 84, 191-215.
Beare, Paul, Torgerson, Colleen and Creviston, Cindy (2008) ‘Increasing verbal behaviour of a student who is Selectively Mute.’ Journal of Emotional and Behavioural Disorders 16, 4, 248-255.
Bednar, B. A. (1974) ‘A Behavioral Approach to Treating an Elective Mute in the School.’ Journal of School Psychology 12, 4, 326-337.
Bell, Dorothy M., and Espie, Colin A. (2003) ‘Overcoming mutism in adults with learning disabilities: A case study.’ British Journal of Learning Disabilities 31, 46-53.
Bergman, R. L. and Hunt, L. (2008) ‘Selective Mutism.’ Paradigm Winter
Blum, Nathan J., Kell, Randi S., Starr, Lynn, Lloyds Lender, W., Bradley-Klug, K. L., Osborne, Mary L. and Dowrick, Peter W. (1998) ‘Case Study: Audio Feedforward Treatment of Selective Mutism.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 37, 1, 40-43.
Clayton, W. T. (1981) ‘The use of positive reinforcement and stimulus fading in the treatment of an elective mute.’ International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 36, S1, 126-131.
Colligan, Ross W., Colligan, Robert C. and Dilliard, Maxine K. (1977) ‘Contingency Management in the Classroom Treatment of Long-term Elective Mutism: A Case Report.’ Journal of School Psychology 15, 1, 9-17.
Conrad, R. D., Delk, J. L. and Williams, C. (1974) ‘Use of Stimulus Fading Procedures in the Treatment of Situation Specific Selective Mutism.’ Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 5, 99-100.
Crogan, Leo M. and Craven, Robin (1982) ‘Elective Mutism: Learning from the Analysis of a Successful Case History.’ Journal of Pediatric Psychology 7, 1, 85-93.
Elizalde-Utnick, G. (2007) ‘Young selectively mute English language learners:
school based intervention strategies.’ Journal of Early Childhood and Infant Psychology 3, 141-162.
Facon, Bruno, Sahiri, Safia and Riviere, Vinca (2008) ‘A Controlled Single- case Treatment of Severe Long-term Selective Mutism in a Child with Mental Retardation.’ Behaviour Therapy 39, 313-321.
Fisak, Brian J., Oliveros, Arazais and Ehrenreich, Jill T. (2006) ‘Assessment and Behavioural Treatment of Selective Mutism.’ Clinical Case Studies 5, 5, 382-402.
Hall, Alyson (2008) ‘Ready to Talk.’ The Times Educational Supplement Magazine 3rd October.
Hill, Linda and Scull, John (1985) ‘Elective Mutism associated with Selective Inactivity.’ Journal of Communication Disorders 18, 161-167.
Holmbeck, G. L. and Lavigne, John. V. (1992) ‘Combining Self-modelling and Stimulus Fading in the Treatment of an Electively Mute Child.’ Psychotherapy 29, 4, 661-667.
Lipton, Harold (1980) ‘Rapid reinstatement of speech using stimulus fading with a Selectively Mute Child.’ Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 11, 147-149.
Louden, Delroy M. (1987) ‘Elective Mutism: A Case Study of a Disorder of Childhood.’ Journal of the National Medical Association 79, 10, 1047-1048.
Lowenstein, L. F. and Lowenstein, K. (1976) ‘The treatment and followup of a number of cases of elective mutism.’ British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 4, 3, 41-46.
Lumb, D. and Wolff, D. (1988) ‘Mary doesn’t talk.’ British Journal of Special Education 15, 3, 103-106.
Mace, Charles F. and West, Barbara J. (1986) ‘Analysis of demand conditions associated with reluctant speech.’ Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 17, 4, 285-294.
Masten, W. G., Stacks, J. R., Caldwell-Colbert, A. T. and Jackson, J. S. (1996) ‘Behavioral Treatment of a selective mute Mexican-American boy.’ Psychology in the Schools 33, 56-60.
Matson, Johnny L., Box, Margaret L. and Francis, Kelley L. (1992) ‘Treatment of Elective Mute Behaviour in two developmentally delayed children using modeling and contingency management.’ Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 23, 3, 221-229.
Morin, Charly, Ladouceur, Robert and Cloutier, Renaud (1982) ‘Reinforcement Procedure in the treatment of Reluctant Speech.’ Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 13, 2, 145-147.
Nolan, J. and Pence, Connie (1970) ‘Operant Conditioning Principles in the Treatment of a Selectively Mute Child.’ Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 35, 2, 265-268.
O’Reilly, M., McNally, D., Sigafoos, J., Lancioni, G. E., Green, V., Edrisinha, C., Machalicek, W., Sorrells, A, Lang, R. and Didden, R. (2008) ‘Examination of a Social Problem Solving Intervention to Treat Selective Mutism.’ Behaviour Modification 32, 182-195.
Oerbeck, Beate, Stein, Murray B., Wentzel-Larsen, Tore, Langsrud, Oyvind and Kristensen, Hanne (2013) ‘A randomized controlled trial of a home and school-based intervention for selective mutism – defocused communication and behavioural techniques.’ Child and Adolescent Mental Health. online doi:10.1111/camh.12045
Oerbeck, Beate, Stein, Murray B., Pripp, Are H. and Kristensen, Hanne (2015) ‘Selective Mutism: follow-up study 1 year after treatment.’ European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 24 (7): 757-766. Published online 2014, Sept 30. doi: 10.1007/s00787-014-0620-1
Paniagua, F. A. and Saeed, M. A. (1987) ‘Labeling and functional language in a case of psychological mutism.’ Journal of Behaviour Therapy & Experimental Psychiatry 18, 3, 259-267.
Pavlek, Mirko (2001) ‘Getting Ready to Talk: The Treatment of a Mildly Retarded, Selectively Mute Adult.’ Clinical Social Work Journal 29, 2, 159-169.
Rasbury, Wiley C. (1974) ‘Behavioral Treatment of Selective Mutism: A Case Report.’ Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 5, 103-104.
Richards, Steven C. and Hansen, Madeline, K. (1978) ‘A Further Demonstration of the Efficacy of Stimulus Fading Treatment of Elective Mutism.’ Journal of Behaviour Therapy AND Experimental Psychiatry 9, 57-60.
Robinson, Joanne and Burgess, Michele (2001) ‘Joanne and Michele’s Story: working with John.’ in T. O’Brien and P. Garner (2001) Untold Stories: Learning Support Assistants and their work. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books.
Roe, Victoria and Sluckin, Alice (2014) ‘The Silent Children.’ NASEN Special Magazine 24-5. March
Sluckin, Alice (1977) ‘Children who do not talk at school.’ Child Care, Health and Development 3, 69-79.
Sluckin, Alice (2000) ‘Selective Mutism.’ in J. Law, A. Parkinson and R. Tamhne (eds) Communication Difficulties in Childhood. Oxford: Radcliffe.
Sluckin, Alice (2006) ‘Helping Selectively Mute Children at School.’ In M. Hunter-Carsh, Y. Tiknar, P. Cooper and R. Sage (eds.) The Handbook of Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties. London and New York, NY. Continuum.
Sluckin, Alice (2011) ‘Supporting children with selective mutism.’ British Journal of School Nursing 6, 7, 342-344.
Sluckin, Alice, and Jehu, Derek (1969) ‘A behavioural approach in the treatment of elective mutism.’ British Journal of Psychiatric Social Work 10, 70-73.
Sluckin, Alice, Foreman, Nigel and Herbert, Martin (1991) ‘Behavioural treatment programs and selectivity of speaking at follow-up in a sample of 25 selective mutes.’ Australian Psychologist 26, 2, 132-137.
Smith, Benita Rae (2004) ‘What has Speech and Language Therapy to Offer to
Selective Mutism?’ In R. Sage and A. Sluckin (eds.) Silent Children – Approaches to Selective Mutism. Leicester. University of Leicester.
Van der Kooy, Derek and Webster, C. D. (1975) ‘A rapidly effective behavior modification program for an Electively Mute child.’ Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 6, 2, 149-152.
Vecchio, J. and Kearney, C. A. (2007) ‘Assessment and Treatment of a Hispanic Youth with SM.’ Clinical Case Studies 6, 1, 34-43.
Vecchio, J. and Kearney, C. A. (2009) ‘Treating Youths with SM with an alternating design of exposure based practice and contingency management.’ Behaviour Therapy 40, 380-392.
Watson, Sarah (1995) ‘Successful treatment of selective mutism; collaborative work in a secondary school setting.’ Child Language, Teaching and Therapy 11, 2, 163-175.
Watson, T. Steuart and Kramer, Jack J. (1992) ‘Multimethod Behavioural Treatment of Long-term Selective Mutism.’ Psychology in the Schools 29, 4, 359-366.
Williamson, Donald A., Sanders, Steven H., Sewell, William R., Haney, J. N. and White, Duncan (1977) ‘The Behavioural Treatment of Elective Mutism: Two Case Studies.’ Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 8, 143-149.
Williamson, Donald A., Sewell, William R., Sanders, Steven H., Haney, Jack N. and White, Duncan (1977) ‘The Treatment of Reluctant Speech using Contingency Management Procedures.’ Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 8, 151-156.
Wulbert, Margaret, Nyman, Barry A., Snow, David and Owen, Yvonne (1973) ‘The Efficacy of Stimulus Fading and Contingency Management in the Treatment of Elective Mutism: A Case Study.’ Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 6, 3, 435-441.
CBT
Fung, D, Manassis, K., Kenny, A., and Fiksenbaum, L. (2002) ‘Web-based CBT for Selective Mutism.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 41, 2, 112-113.
Gallagher, Heather M., Rabian, Brian, A. and McCloskey, Michael S. (2004) ‘A brief group cognitive-behavioral intervention for social phobia in childhood.’ Journal of Anxiety Disorders 18, 459-479.
Reuther, Erin T., Thompson, E. D, Moree, Brittany N. and Matson, Johnny L. (2011) ‘Treating Selective Mutism using Modular CBT for Child Anxiety: A Case Study.’ Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 40, 1, 156-163.
Suveg, Cynthia, Comer, Jonathan S., Furr, Jami M., and Kendall, Philip C. (2006) ‘Adapting Manualized CBT for a Cognitively Delayed Child with Multiple Anxiety Disorders.’ Clinical Case Studies 5, 6, 488-510.
Combined Methods and Multimodal Approaches
Esposito, Maria, Precenzano, Francesco, Ruberto, Maria, Carotenuto, Marco (2015) ‘Efficacy and Safety of Psychomotor Approach in Children Affected by Selective Mutism: A Multicenter Study in Italian Pediatric Population.’ International Journal of Psychology and Behavior Analysis. 1 (2): 107. Available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.15344/2455-3867/2015/107
Jackson, M. F., Allen, R. S., Boothe, A. B., Nava, M. L. and Coates, A. (2005) ‘Innovative Analyses and Interventions in the Treatment of Selective Mutism.’ Clinical Case Studies 4, 1, 81-112.
Kee, Carolyn H. Y., Fung, Daniel S. S. and Ley-Keow, Ang (2001) ‘An Electronic Communication Device for Selective Mutism’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 40, 4, 389
Kehle, Thomas J., Madaus, Melissa R., Baratta, Victoria S. (1998) ‘Augmented Self-modeling as a treatment for children with Selective Mutism.’ Journal of School Psychology 6, 3, 247-260.
Krohn, D. D., Weckstein, S.M. and Wright. H. L. (1992) ‘A Study of the Effectiveness of a Specific Treatment for a case for Elective Mutism.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 31, 4, 711-718.
Maskey, Sean (2001) ‘Selective Mutism, Social Phobia and Moclobemide: A Case Report.’ Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 6, 3, 363-369.
Moldan, Marian B. (2005) ‘Selective Mutism and Self-regulation.’ Clinical Social Work Journal 33, 3, 291-307.
Omdal, Heidi (2008) ‘Including children with Selective Mutism in mainstream schools and kindergartens: problems and possibilities.’ International Journal of Inclusive Education 12, 3, 301 315.
Oon, Phei Phei (2010) ‘Playing with Gladys: A case study integrating drama therapy with behavioural interventions for the treatment of Selective Mutism.’ Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 15, 2, 215-230.
Park, Hae-Ryun, Steele, Margaret and Brisebois, Sharon (2007) ‘Clinical Case Rounds in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Selective Mutism.’ Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 16, 2, 101-103.
Rupp S. M. (1999) ‘Haloperidol for Tourette’s disorder plus selective mutism.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 38, 1, 7.
Russell, P. S. S., Raj, S. E. and John, J. K. (1998) ‘Multimodal intervention for selective mutism in mentally retarded children.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 37, 9, 903-904.
Rye, Mark S. and Ullman, Douglas (1999) ‘The successful treatment of long- term Selective Mutism: A case study.’ Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 30, 313-323.
Drugs and other medical methods
Black, Bruce and Uhde, Thomas W. (1992) ‘Elective Mutism as a Variant of Social Phobia.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 31, 6, 1090-1094.
Black, Bruce and Uhde, Thomas W. (1994) ‘Treatment of Elective Mutism with Fluoxetine: A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 33, 7, 1000-1006.
Black, Bruce (& Motavalli, N.) (1995) ‘Fluoxetine for Elective Mutism.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 34, 6, 701-703.
Boon, F. (1994) ‘The selective mutism controversy continued.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 33, 2, 283.
Campbell, M..and Cueva, J. E. (1995) ‘Psychopharmacology in child and adolescent psychiatry: a review of the past seven years. Part II.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 34, 10, 12621272.
Carlson, John S., Mitchell, Angela D. and Segool, Natasha (2008) ‘The Current State of Empirical Support for the Pharmacological Treatment of Selective Mutism.’ School Psychology Quarterly 23, 3, 354-372.
Dummit, E. Steven, Klein, Rachel G., Tancer, Nancy K., Asche, Barbara and Martin, Jacqueline (1996) ‘Fluoxetine Treatment of Children with Selective Mutism: An Open Trial.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 35, 5, 615-621.
Goldwyn, Daniel H. and Weinstock, Ronda C. (1990) ‘Phenelzine Treatment of Elective Mutism: A Case Report.’ in S. A. Spasaro, and C. E. Schaefer (eds) (1999) Refusal to Speak: Treatment of Selective Mutism in Children. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson Inc.
Halpern, Harvey (1969) ‘A Case Report of Elective Mutism.’ Journal of Communication Disorders 2, 69-71.
Jainer, Ashok Kumar, Quasim, Mohammed and Davis, M. (2002) ‘Elective Mutism: A Case Study.’ International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice 6, 49-51.
Jelley, Di (2000) ‘A patient who changed my practice: the internet and a “small miracle”.’ British Medical Journal 321, 165.
Lafferty, Julie E. and Constantino, John N. (1998) ‘Fluvoxamine in Selective Mutism.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 37, 1, 12-13.
Lehman, Robert B. (2002) ‘Rapid resolution of Social Anxiety Disorder, Selective Mutism and Separation Anxiety with Paroxetine in an 8-year-old girl.’ Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience 27, 2, 124-125.
Motavilli, N. (and Black, Bruce) (1995) ‘Fluoxetine for (s)elective mutism.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 34, 6, 701-702.
Wright, Harry, H., Cuccaro, Michael, L., Leanhardt, Tami V., Dendall, Dorothy F. and Anderson, Julie H. (1995) ‘Case Study: Fluoxetine in the Multimodal Treatment of a Preschool Child with Selective Mutism.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 34, 7, 857-862.
Psychotherapy
Adams, M. S. (1970) ‘A Case of Elective Mutism.’ Journal of the National Medical Association 62, 3, 213-215.
Anyfantakis, D., Botzakis, E., Mplevrakis, E. Symvoulakis, E. K. and Arbiros, I. (2009) ‘Selective Mutism due to a dog bite trauma in a 4-year-old girl: a case report.’ Journal of Medical Case Reports 3, 100.
Bonovitz, Christopher (2003) ‘Treating children who do not play or talk: Finding a pathway to intersubjective relatedness.’ Psychoanalytic Psychology 20, 2, 315-328.
Green, Bernard A. (1972) ‘The Little Boy.’ Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice 9, 4, 348.
Hesse, Perez P. (1981) ‘Colour, Form and Silence: A formal analysis of drawings of a child who did not speak.’ The Arts in Psychotherapy 8, 175-184.
McCarley Jill and Hidalgo, Vilma (2005) ‘Augmented Traditional Psychotherapy with Computer-based technology for a Selectively Mute Girl.’ Psychiatry 2, 4, 48-53.
Salfield, D. J., Lond, B. S. and Dusseldorf, M. D. (1950) ‘Observations on elective mutism in children.’ Journal of Mental Science 96, 1024-1032.
Woo, Rose (1999) ‘Sounds of silence: the need for presence in absence.’ Journal of Child Psychotherapy 25, 1, 93-114.
Zelenko, Marina and Shaw, Richard (2000) ‘Case Study: Selective Mutism in an Immigrant Child.’ Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 5, 4, 555-562.
Therapeutic Methods
Amir, Dorit (2005) ‘Re-finding the Voice: Music Therapy with a girl who has Selective Mutism.’ Nordic Journal of Music Therapy 14, 1, 67-77.
Barlow, Karen, Strother, JoAnna and Landreth, Garry (1986) ‘Sibling Group Play Therapy: An Effective Alternative with an Elective Mute Child.’ in S. A. Spasaro, and C. E. Schaefer (eds) (1999) Refusal to Speak: Treatment of Selective Mutism in Children. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson Inc.
Bozigar, James A. and Hansen, Ruth Aguilar (1984) ‘Group Treatment for Elective Mute Children.’ in S. A. Spasaro, and C. E. Schaefer (eds) (1999) Refusal to Speak: Treatment of Selective Mutism in Children. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson Inc.
Carr, Alan and Afnan, Shahin (1989) ‘Concurrent family and individual therapy in a case of elective mutism.’ Journal of Family Therapy 11, 29-44.
Dallos, Rudi (2007) ‘Special Section: Don’t look back in anger: Learning from my mistakes with Mark and his Family.’ Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 12, 3, 361-368.
Goodman, Karen D. (1989) ‘Music Therapy Assessment of Emotionally Disturbed Children.’ The Arts in Psychotherapy 16, 179-192.
Jones, Katherine (2012) ‘How intense is this silence? Developing a Theoretical Framework for the Use of Psychodynamic Music Therapy in the Treatment of Selective Mutism in Children with English as an Additional Language: A Heuristic Case Study.’ British Journal of Music Therapy 26. 2. 15-28.
Lesser-Katz, M. (1988) ‘The Treatment of Elective Mutism as Stranger Reaction.’ Psychotherapy 25, 2, 305-313.
Meyers, Susan V., (1984) ‘Elective Mutism in Children: A Family Systems Approach.’ in S. A. Spasaro, and C. E. Schaefer (eds) (1999) Refusal to Speak: Treatment of Selective Mutism in Children. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson Inc.
Roe, Victoria (1993) ‘An Interactive Therapy Group.’ Child Language, Teaching and Therapy 9, 2, 133-140.
Sharkey, Louise, McNicholas, Fiona, Barry, Edwina, Begley, Maire and Ahern, Sinead (2008) ‘Group Therapy for Selective Mutism: A Parents’ and Children’s Treatment Group.’ Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 39, 538-545.
Sloan, Trish L (2007) ‘Family Therapy with Selectively Mute Children: A Case Study.’ Journal of Marital and Family Therapy 33, 1, 94-105.
Sotto, Carolyn and Ball, Angel L. (2006) ‘Dynamic Characters with Communication Disorders in Children’s Literature.’ Intervention in School and Clinic 42, 1, 40-45.
Stoddart, Kevin (1999) ‘Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome: Three cases of individual and family therapy.’ Autism 3, 3, 255-271.
Weininger, Otto (1987) ‘Electively Mute Children: A Therapeutic Approach.’ in S. A. Spasaro, and C. E. Schaefer (eds) (1999) Refusal to Speak: Treatment of Selective Mutism in Children. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson Inc.
Wright, Harry, H, Miller, Diane, Cook, Mark Anthony and Littmann, Jane R. (1985) ‘Early Identification and Intervention with Children Who Refuse to Speak.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 24, 739-746.
Literature Reviews on SM and its treatment
Anstendig, Karin (1998) ‘Selective Mutism: A Review of the Treatment Literature by Modality from 1980-1996.’ Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training 35, 3, 381-391.
Cleave, Hayley (2009) ‘Too anxious to speak? The implications of current research into Selective Mutism for educational psychology practice.’ Educational Psychology in Practice 25 (3), 233-246.
Cohan, Sharon L., Chavira, Denise A. and Stein, Murray B. (2006) ‘Practitioner Review: Psychosocial interventions for children with Selective Mutism: a critical evaluation of the lterature from 1990-2005.’ Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 47, 11, 1085-1097.
Cohan, Sharon L., Price, Joseph M. and Stein, Murray B. (2006) ‘Suffering in Silence: Why a Developmental Psychopathology Perspective on Selective Mutism is Needed.’ Journal of Developmental and Behavioural Pediatrics 27, 4, 341-355.
Grossman, Murray (1991) ‘Review of ‘Mutism’ by Yvan Lebrun.’ Annals of Neurology 30, 3, 434.
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Krysanski, Valerie L. (2003) ‘A Brief Review of Selective Mutism Literature.’ The Journal of Psychology 137, 1, 29-40.
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Research – Comparative Studies with SM
Arie, Miri, Henkin, Yael, Lamy, Dominique, Tetin-Schneider, S., Apter, Alan, Sadeh, Avi and Bar-Haim, Yair (2007) ‘Reduced Auditory Processing Capacity during Vocalization in Children with Selective Mutism.’ Biological Psychiatry 61, 419-421.
Bar-Haim, Yair, Henkin, Yael, Ari-Even-Roth, Daphne, Tetin-Schneider, S., Hildesheimer, M. and Muchnik, Chava (2004) ‘Reduced Auditory Efferent
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Carbone, Diana, Schmidt, Louis A., Cunningham, C. A., McHolm, Angela E., Edison, Shannon, St. Pierre, Jeff and Boyle, Michael H. (2010) ‘Behavioural and Socio-emotional functioning in children with Selective Mutism: A comparison with anxious and typically developing children across multiple informants.’ Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 38, 1057-1067.
Cunningham, C. E., Mc Holm, A. E., Boyle, M. H. and Patel, S. (2004) ‘Behavioural and Emotional Adjustment, Family Functioning, Academic Performance and Social Relationships in Children with Selective Mutism.’ Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 458, 1363-1372.
Cunningham, C. E., Mc Holm, A. E. and Boyle, M. H. (2006) ‘Social Phobia, Anxiety, Oppositional Behaviour, Social Skills and Self-concept in children with specific SM, generalized Selective Mutism and Community Controls.’ European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 15, 245-255.
Edison, Shannon C., Evans, Mary A., McHolm, Angela E., Cunningham, C. E., Nowakowski, M. E., Boyle, Michael and Schmidt. Louis A. (2010) ‘An investigation of control amongst parents of Selectively Mute, Anxious and Non-anxious Children.’ Child Psychiatry and Human Development 14,12 online.
Gordon, Neil (2001) ‘Mutism: Elective, Selective or Acquired.’ Brain and Development. Official Journal of Japanese Society of Child Neurology 23, 83-87.
Henkin, Yael, Feinholz, Maya, Arie, Miri, Bar-Haim, Yair (2010) ‘P50 Suppression in Children with Selective Mutism: A Preliminary Report.’ Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 38, 43-48.
Manassis, Katharina, Fung, Daniel, Tannock, Rosemary, Sloman, Leon, Fiksenbaum, Lisa and McInnes, Alison (2003) ‘Characterizing Selective Mutism: Is it more than Social Anxiety?’ Depression and Anxiety 18, 3, 153-161.
Manassis, K., Tannock, Rosemary, Garland, Jane, Minde, Klaus, McInnes, Alison and Clark, Sandra (2007) ‘The Sound of Silence: Language, Cognition and Anxiety in Selective Mutism.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 46, 9, 1187-1195.
Melfsen, S., Walitza, S., and Warnke, A. (2006) ‘The extent of social anxiety in combination with mental disorders.’ European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 15, 111-117.
Nowakowski, M. E., Cunningham, C. E., McHolm, A. E., Evans, M. A., Edison, S. St. Pierre, J., Boyle, M. H. and Schmidt, L.A. (2009) ‘Language and Academic Abilities in Children with Selective Mutism.’ Infant and Child Development 18, 271-290.
Nowakowski, M. E., Tasker, S. L., Cunningham, C. E., McHolm, A. E., Edison, S. St. Pierre, J., Boyle, M. H. and Schmidt, L.A. (2011) ‘Joint attention in parent-child dyads involving children with Selective Mutism: A comparison between anxious and typically developing children.’ Child Psychiatry and Human Development 42, 78-92.
Oerbeck, Beate and Kristensen, Hanne (2008) ‘Attention in Selective Mutism – An Exploratory Case Study.’ Journal of Anxiety Disorders 22, 548-554.
Stein, Murray B., Yang, Bao-Zhu, Chavira, Denise A., Hitchcock, Carla A., Sung, Sharon C., Shipon-Blum, Elisa and Gelernter, Joel (2010) ‘A Common Genetic Variant in the Neurexin Superfamily Member CNTNAP2 Is Associated with Increased Risk for Selective Mutism and Social AnxietyRelated Traits.’ Biological Psychiatry 69, 9, 825-831.
Steinhausen, H-C, Wachter, Miriam, Laimbock, Karin and Winkler Metzke, Christa (2006) ‘A long-term outcome study of Selective Mutism in Childhood.’ Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 47, 7, 751-756.
Wilkins, Robert (1985) ‘A Comparison of Elective Mutism and Emotional Disorders in Children.’ British Journal of Psychiatry 146, 198-203.
Yeganeh, Robin, Beidel, Deborah C., Turner, Samuel M., Pinoa, Armando A. and Silverman, W. K. (2003) ‘Clinical Distinctions between Selective Mutism and Social Phobia: An Investigation of Childhood Psychopathology.’ Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 42, 9, 10691075.
Yeganeh, Robin, Beidel, Deborah C. and Turner, Samuel M. (2006) ‘Selective Mutism: More than Social Anxiety?’ Depression and Anxiety 23, 117-123.
Research into Anxiety, ASD, Inhibition, Language, Social Phobia, etc
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