Tag: traumatic mutism

April 20, 2018 by Betsy Bird

Q&A and Cover Reveal: After Zero by Christina Collins

A lot of librarians are familiar with books in which a character, maybe the main character or a sibling or a friend, does not speak. The term I always thought applied to this situation was “selective mutism”. It’s so common in books that when I keep track of the books I read on Goodreads I’ve […]