does anyone know and skills in dealing with selected mutisum in children?

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[Schlomo78]

http://www.channel4.c.../problems/mutism.html

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thankyou it is really helpfull did see program on bbc one but still wanted more insight on this

[Schlomo78]

No worries :)

[Buenchico]

This site should be useful to you:
http://www.selectivemutism.co.uk/
(Use the 'Register' link, at the top right, to gain full access to all of the site's content).

Chris

PS: I hope that you find more support than i did, in my first year of teaching, when I had a boy in my class who would not utter a single word in school. It took nearly an entire school year before an educational psychologist would get involved. He then spent an entire week following the teenager, both at school and at home (where, apparently, he conversed normally with his family and neighbours). I read through the many pages of the psychologist's report, which gave an almost minute-by-minute account of what he'd seen and heard, in anticipation of getting some useful suggestions as to how to cope with the problem. Instead the report simply ended with this bland statement: "Conclusion: Stephen is a non-communicator". (I could have told the guy that before he started! - Grrr!!!)

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i have been with my partner for 4 years and we are struggling my son is fine had your normal problems with a teenage boy but his daughter has made it very hard to move forward in the relationship i told him something wasnt right in the first 6 months of seeing each other he palmed me of with shes shy. i seem to have a good sence of judgement when it comes to children not sure if its because i was in a childerns home when i was younger who knows but i have spent the whole of are relationship fighting him to sort it a doctor even said she is a normal child i just wanted to scream then aray of sunshine the school agreed with me that something wasnt right so a lady who visits the school started to see her and drew up a report and has concluded this and has sent har back to the doctor for help at last but from what i read up on this its gonig to be hard as she is 9 and its become a way of life for her it would have been easy if my partner had moved on it when she was younger i have no faith in the system as they do take so long to get what you already know!!!