EMDR FORUM ARCHIVE, 2000
Re:Selective Mutism and agenisis of the corpus callosum
Paul Sahba, M.Ed. LCMHC Level II · 09/23/00 at 10:33 ET
Thank you for your reply. If the clinical picture was not so complicated it would be interesting to do a single subject research design of some sort to see how EMDR might work with someone with no corpos collosum. But of course I'm not a trained researcher. Thank you again. And if you or any readers come across any information that might help me, I would very much appreciate it.
Perhaps I could give you some specifics.
My client is a 22-year old single white female who lives with her mother. She suffers mild mental retardation and has a long history of behavioral problems that are, according to previoius evaluations, related to the agenisis of the corpos collosum (thank you for the spelling correction. I'm afraid I'm not used to these neurological terms)and associated neurological developments. She was Dxed with selective mutism when she started school. Her language development is normal relative to persons with developmental delays at her level. She is communicative with her mother and with select familiars. And she is at times communicative with strangers. But in school or in a treatment setting she is entirely mute. She will sometimes gesture or write to communicate, but rarely will she talk. There is no known specific trauma in her history. The mutism symptom is viewed by her evaluators and by her current behavior specialist (who is also the refarral source) as being a specific kind of social phobia. Assuming that it is anxiety based, the behavior specialist thought that EMDR might help. Her communication has generalized to some degree over the years, but it still interferes with her social functioning. The challenges created by the behavior problems and the target symptom itself are great.
Paul Sahba, M.Ed. LCMHC Level II
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