With the clock ticking, Chelsea Jenkins tells PEOPLE that “early intervention matters more than most people realize,” especially with selective mutism ...

"I've spent years being bounced between services thinking that somebody was going to help my child but the help never came," ...

“That gap between who she is at home and who the world gets to see is the hardest part of all of this,” Ava’s mother, Chelsea Jenkins, tells PEOPLE ...

Your child is unable to eat, drink, talk, use the bathroom, or make eye contact with others while at school. But at home, she relaxes and speaks freely with her parents and siblings. After years of ...

CANTERBURY — When Olivia Patenaude suddenly speaks, it’s startling - not because of what she says or her tone of voice, but because it happens so infrequently. In the backyard of her parents’ ...

Over the years, in the juvenile court clinic, my colleagues and I have had several cases where a child referred for evaluation speaks only to select people. It is sometimes noted that the child has ...

World of Dance premiered Tuesday night, and while viewers got a lot of what they expected (i.e., really great dance routines), they also got something totally unexpected, too. The Crazy 8's, a group ...

One in 150 children go silent at school despite talking freely at home, here's what selective mutism really is and how to ...