Articulation Withdrawal Selective Mutism

Definition

Selective mutism is a persistent failure to speak in specific settings despite speech in others, commonly associated with anxiety. It can resemble V-under/M-centered when language content remains usable and output drops contextually. It differs from Articulation Freeze because Freeze additionally requires Mental over-activity, not because one term is chronic and the other acute; it also differs from chosen silence and language-access loss.

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Orthography

case

capitalized-always

evidence

ordinary

Usage

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The parent cascade, a reusable global diagnosis, or a variant attached to a different cascade.

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Naming a reviewed presentation that is a child of exactly one parent cascade.

Relationships and lifecycle

Parents

• cascade.articulation-withdrawal