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Language and Academic Abilities in Children with Selective Mutism.
Matilda E. Nowakowski,Charles E. Cunningham,Angela E. McHolm,Mary Ann Evans,Shannon Edison,Jeff St. Pierre,Michael H. Boyle,Louis A. Schmidt +7 more
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The authors examined receptive language and academic abilities in children with selective mutism (SM; n = 30, M age = 8.8 years), anxiety disorders (n = 46, M ages = 9.3 years), and community controls (N = 27, M aged = 7.6 years).Abstract:
We examined receptive language and academic abilities in children with selective mutism (SM; n = 30; M age = 8.8 years), anxiety disorders (n = 46; M age = 9.3 years), and community controls (n = 27; M age = 7.8 years). Receptive language and academic abilities were assessed using standardized tests completed in the laboratory. We found a significant group by sex interaction for receptive vocabulary scores such that, within females, the SM and mixed anxiety groups had significantly lower receptive vocabulary scores than community controls. We also found that children with SM and children with anxiety disorders had significantly lower mathematics scores than community controls. Despite these differences in mathematics and receptive vocabulary performance, children with SM and children with anxiety disorders still performed at age-level norms, while more children in the community control group performed above age-level norms. Findings suggest that despite their speaking inhibition in the school setting, children with SM are still able to attain the receptive vocabulary and academic abilities that are expected at their age levels. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.read more
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Children Who are Anxious in Silence: A Review on Selective Mutism, the New Anxiety Disorder in DSM-5
TL;DR: Recommendations for dealing with this diagnostic conundrum are made for psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health workers who face children with SM in clinical practice, and directions for future research are highlighted.
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Behavioral and Socio-emotional Functioning in Children with Selective Mutism: A Comparison with Anxious and Typically Developing Children Across Multiple Informants
Diana Carbone,Louis A. Schmidt,Charles C. Cunningham,Angela E. McHolm,Shannon Edison,Jeff St. Pierre,Michael H. Boyle +6 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that SM may be conceptualized as an anxiety disorder, with primary deficits in social functioning and social anxiety, and that social skills training merits inclusion in intervention for children with anxiety disorders as well as children with SM.
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An Investigation of Control Among Parents of Selectively Mute, Anxious, and Non-Anxious Children
Shannon Edison,Shannon Edison,Mary Ann Evans,Angela E. McHolm,Charles E. Cunningham,Matilda E. Nowakowski,Michael H. Boyle,Louis A. Schmidt +7 more
TL;DR: Results support previous theories that parents take over for their children when they fail to meet performance demands, especially when the child or parent is anxious, and child-initiated speaking predicted high power remarks over and above other variables.
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Parental adjustment, parenting attitudes and emotional and behavioral problems in children with selective mutism
Behiye Alyanak,Ayse Kilincaslan,Halime Sözen Harmancı,Sevcan Karakoç Demirkaya,Tülin Yurtbay,Hayriye Vehid +5 more
TL;DR: The severity of emotional and behavioral problems of children with SM was correlated with maternal psychopathology but not paternal psychopathology, and they predominantly displayed internalizing problems, whereas aggressive and delinquent behavior was described among a subsample of the children.
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Selective mutism and temperament: the silence and behavioral inhibition to the unfamiliar
Angelika Gensthaler,Sally Khalaf,Marc Ligges,Michael Kaess,Christine M. Freitag,Christina Schwenck,Christina Schwenck +6 more
TL;DR: Children with lifetime selective mutism and social phobia were more inhibited as infants and toddlers than children of the internalizing and healthy control groups, who displayed similar low levels of behavioral inhibition.
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Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
TL;DR: The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) as discussed by the authors is an individually administered, norm-referenced test of single-word receptive (or hearing) vocabulary.
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NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children Version IV (NIMH DISC-IV): Description, Differences From Previous Versions, and Reliability of Some Common Diagnoses
TL;DR: The NIMH DISC-IV is an acceptable, inexpensive, and convenient instrument for ascertaining a comprehensive range of child and adolescent diagnoses.
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The Physiology and Psychology of Behavioral Inhibition in Children.
TL;DR: Longitudinal study of 2 cohorts of children selected in the second or third year of life to be extremely cautious and shy (inhibited) or fearless and outgoing (uninhibited) to unfamiliar events revealed preservation of these 2 behavioral qualities through the sixth year oflife.
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Specific and general language performance across early childhood: Stability and gender considerations:
TL;DR: The authors found that in the second through fifth years, but not before or after, girls consistently outperformed boys in multiple specific and general measures of language, including spontaneous speech, at each age.
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