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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And selective mutism isn't a speech issue, it is an anxiety issue. [/quote]

Yup, and my son's teacher said that was the problem with him when he barely spoke at school around age 2. At age 4, with no treatment, he's a happy, super social guy. Glad I did not listen to the know-it-all teacher who acted like my kid needed a psychiatrist and anxiety meds.  As an aside is a much better observer of other people's emotions than my other children, and much more empathetic.

People throwing around terms and treating everything like a problem are part of the reason why so many children are overmedicated.[/quote]

My daughter has selective mutism and is doing well overcoming it without a psychiatrist or anxiety medications.  She was mute in preschool for a year before we figured it out.  Learning about selective mutism gave us a lot of insight into why she was not speaking in school and gave us guidelines for how to help her be less anxious and more comfortable speaking.  If we hadn't run across the information on this anxiety issue and we had just waited for her to grow out of it without us paying any special attention to helping her, I don't think she would be doing so well this year in kindergarten.  I don't know if the OP's child has selective mutism or not -- 22 months is on the early side for it, I believe, and maybe this is just normal toddler behavior.  But there is no harm in suggesting that the OP look into information about selective mutism and see if that information can help her help her child (without necessarily pursuing a diagnosis at this point). OP, you may want to read a bit about selective mutism (even just the Wikipedia entry) and see if it sounds at all like your child -- the first time I read about it, I was amazed at how perfectly it described my daughter's behavior.[/quote]

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