'Two' Quiet: Monozygotic Female Twins with Selective Mutism

Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 473-488

  Segal, Nancy L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Selective mutism; Twins

Indexed keywords

CASE REPORT; CHILD; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DYSPHASIA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; REVIEW; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SPEECH DISORDER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0142054889     PISSN: 13591045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/13591045030084005     Document Type: Review

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