The Highly Sensitive Person, Dr. Elaine Aron's best seller, has favorable responses among a portion of Japanese parents who have children with selective mutism, and those who have a history of suffering from selective mutism.
I haven't read the books about HSP yet, but from what I've heard, HSP and selectively mute children have many things in common.
Accorging to Dr. Elaine Aron's web site, 7 types of books about HSP in English were sold. But in Japanese, only 2 types. What is worse is that The Highly Sensitive Child, probably the most popular HSP book among parents who have children with selective mutism in English-spoken countries, is not translated into Japanese.
