JUDSONIA -- Maebel Leonard raps her knuckles on the window, rattling the glass in its frame, grunts and points across the street -- her way of asking to go over to a friend's house to play. "I know ...

Cases of selective mutism, a complex anxiety disorder, are growing in Australia, apparently exacerbated by pandemic lockdowns When Nicole Caplan’s daughter Maebel was four, she was a cheeky child “who ...