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Muteness is a speech disorder

Speech disorder

Speech disorders or speech impediments, as they are also called, are a type of communication disorders where 'normal' Manner of articulation is disrupted....
in which a person cannot speak. The umbrella term

Umbrella term

An umbrella term is a word that provides a superset or wikt:grouping of related concepts, also called a hypernym.For example, cryptology is an umbrella term that encompasses cryptography and cryptanalysis, among other fields....
"speech-impaired" is sometimes also used, though just as "visually impaired" does not necessarily mean that a person is blind, someone who is speech impaired may not be mute. Selective mutism

Selective mutism

Selective mutism is a childhood anxiety disorder in which a person who is normally capable of Speech communication is unable to speak in given situations, or to specific people....
is a DSM-IV diagnosis that refers to an anxiety disorder in which people are unable to speak in situations causing social anxiety, but are fluent in speech in more comfortable situations.

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Muteness is a speech disorder

Speech disorder

Speech disorders or speech impediments, as they are also called, are a type of communication disorders where 'normal' Manner of articulation is disrupted....
in which a person cannot speak. The umbrella term

Umbrella term

An umbrella term is a word that provides a superset or wikt:grouping of related concepts, also called a hypernym.For example, cryptology is an umbrella term that encompasses cryptography and cryptanalysis, among other fields....
"speech-impaired" is sometimes also used, though just as "visually impaired" does not necessarily mean that a person is blind, someone who is speech impaired may not be mute. Selective mutism

Selective mutism

Selective mutism is a childhood anxiety disorder in which a person who is normally capable of Speech communication is unable to speak in given situations, or to specific people....
is a DSM-IV diagnosis that refers to an anxiety disorder in which people are unable to speak in situations causing social anxiety, but are fluent in speech in more comfortable situations. Other people may choose to become avowedly

Vow

A vow is a promise or oath....
mute. This is usually, but not always, for religious

Religion

A religion is an organized approach to human spirituality which usually encompasses a set of myth, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural or transcendence quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power or truth....
reasons. Mute patients have adapted with this disability by using machines that vibrate their vocal cords, allowing them to speak.

See also

Aphonia
Aphonia

Aphonia is the medical term for the inability to speak. It is considered more severe than dysphonia. A primary cause of aphonia is bilateral disruption of the recurrent laryngeal nerve, which supplies nearly all the muscles in the larynx....
Selective mutism
Selective mutism

Selective mutism is a childhood anxiety disorder in which a person who is normally capable of Speech communication is unable to speak in given situations, or to specific people....
Deaf-mute
Deaf-mute

For "deafness", see hearing impairment. For "Deaf" as a cultural term, see Deaf culture. For "inability to speak", see muteness.Deaf-mute was a term historically used by hearing people to identify a person who was hearing impairment and could not speak....
Speech disorder
Speech disorder

Speech disorders or speech impediments, as they are also called, are a type of communication disorders where 'normal' Manner of articulation is disrupted....
Funeral mute
Funeral

A funeral is a ceremony marking a person's death. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour....