What is the name the disorder when a child can speak but chooses not to?!


Question:

What is the name the disorder when a child can speak but chooses not to?

again the child is perfectly normal and can think and talk properly, but she chooses not to. As in the 1996 movie, "The Quiet Room."


Answers:

Stubbornness!
Really its called selective mutism. Its usually caused by anxiety.


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