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Selective mutism is a psychiatric disorder of childhood characterized by persistent failure to speak in one or more major social situations, including school, despite ability to comprehend spoken language and to speak. The disorder was first described in 1934, and there have been many case reports and small case series published in the psychiatric literature since then. Prior to the initiation of a research program under the direction of Dr. Bruce Black...

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