Coronavirus pandemic restrictions can help or hinder schoolchildren with anxiety disorders
Parents fear children stuck at home for almost a year during the coronavirus pandemic, will lose critical social skills. And children with selective mutism, a severe form of anxiety, will lose even more. Best estimates predict one in 140 children have the under-recognizeddisability of selective mutism, often misdiagnosed as shyness or stubbornness. Some kids say few words in public, while others are so anxious, they cannot nod or point. Selective mutism is an anxiety disorder. Selective mutism in the classroom In class, children with selective mutism can’t tell a teacher they don’t unders...
Source: theconversation.com