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<DIV><SPAN class=485554413-07052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Dear
Eduardo- </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=485554413-07052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=485554413-07052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
don't think too much has been done in trying to understand the linguistic
profiles of SM children. This is very important as the prevalence of SM is
around .7 % in the general population and SM is of interest for language
researchers and clinicians for several important reasons:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=485554413-07052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>1. SM is 3 times more common among language minority children, while
cases of more severe SM (those that extend beyond a year duration) are 14 times
more common among language minorities. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=485554413-07052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>2. SM
children also suffer from speech/language problems in about half of the
cases </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=485554413-07052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>3. SM
interfers with language and literacy acquisition. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=485554413-07052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>4.
Last but not least, SM children don't talk!! (...in specific social
situations...)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=485554413-07052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Trying
to answer your question more specifically, Rosemary Tannock at U.
Toronto/Hospital for Sick Children and colleagues have done some language
studies on children with SM. A link to her work is <A
href="http://www.homestead.com/quietroom/Research.html">http://www.homestead.com/quietroom/Research.html</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=485554413-07052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I am
curious to hear what other work info-childes friends report on.
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=485554413-07052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Good
luck! </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=485554413-07052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Claudio </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Claudio O. Toppelberg, MD<BR>Principal Investigator, Project
on Language and Child Psychiatry<BR>Judge Baker Children's Center, Harvard
Medical School<BR>3 Blackfan Circle<BR>Boston, Massachusetts
02115-5794<BR>e-mail: <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"></SPAN><A
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
info-childes@mail.talkbank.org [mailto:info-childes@mail.talkbank.org]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>Eduardo Blasco Ferrer<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, May 07, 2004 3:16
AM<BR><B>To:</B> info-childes@mail.talkbank.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> selective
mutism<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear colleagues and frieds:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Has anyone of you worked on SELECTIVE MUTISM,
trying to gain data about planning difficulties and syntactic impairment,
tested through comprehension tests? I'd be most thankful for any suggestion or
bibliography.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Prof.Dr. Eduardo Blasco Ferrer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Psycholinguistics and
Neurolinguistics</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Univ. Cagliari</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>09123 Cagliari, Sardinia,
Italy</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>