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After her breakout performance on Penn & Teller: Fool Us, Purchase-based Rachel Ling Gordon is conjuring up astonishing illusions.

Rachel Ling Gordon wasn’t always so outgoing. When she was a toddler, she was diagnosed with selective mutism, a social communication anxiety disorder.

A child may be diagnosed with selective mutism, an anxiety disorder, at age five

Columnist Adria Nassim shares how what she's reading this winter is teaching her more about disability.

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...