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The silent twins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Alexander M. P. Kellam
Alexander M. P. Kellam*
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South Glamorgan Health Authority
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This name has been given by the media to two young women born in the early 1960s who, from the age of 2 or 3, had spoken almost exclusively to each other and to no-one else. This resulted in considerable communication problems at school and a turbulent adolescence; eventually they set fire to some empty buildings and were sent to Broadmoor.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 17 , Issue 10 , October 1993 , pp. 622 - 623
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