Articulation Freeze Functional Aphonia

Definition

Functional (conversion) aphonia — the larynx is structurally intact and the thought fully formed, yet volitional voice is locked by a non-organic mechanism. Unlike selective mutism's setting-bound anxiety, Word-Finding Block's lexical seizing, thought blocking's intrusive cut, Stuttering's motor-initiation catch, or akinetic mutism's whole-system arrest, here phonation alone fails while cough and laughter voice involuntarily.

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Orthography

case

capitalized-always

evidence

ordinary

Usage

do not use for

The parent cascade, a reusable global diagnosis, or a variant attached to a different cascade.

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use when

Naming a reviewed presentation that is a child of exactly one parent cascade.

Relationships and lifecycle

Parents

• cascade.articulation-freeze