Compact Basic Knowledge Why does the girl not speak in kindergarten? Why does the
boy remain silent during school? Selectively mute children
have the ability to speak, but choose not to use it in un-familiar situations or in communication with certain
people. A conversation with these children is often not
possible at all or only via gestures or written messages.
Nitza Katz-Bernstein elaborates in her book the symp-toms of this dysfunction and explains the diagnostics and
different therapies. She takes into consideration thera-peutic elements from various disciplines such as speech
therapy, as well as different schools of child and adoles-cent psychotherapy.
Despre autor
Prof. Dr. Nitza Katz-Bernstein, Consultant, Super visor,
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist (SPV, CH) and
speech therapist, Switzerland, led the centre for
counselling and therapy of the Faculty of Rehabili ta-tion Sciences, University of Dortmund, Germany. She
is visiting Professor at the Tel Aviv University / Israel.