Does anyone have any experience of helping a child with selective mutism?
My daughter is nearly 6 and in year one. We had parents evening tonight and her teacher is concerned that she doesn’t speak much - she has always been like this, not just since moving to year one. At home she is the most chatty bossy outgoing little thing ever but she shuts down when there is anyone else around.
Her teacher is worried now that it’s going to start holding her back with school work as a lot of it and assessments are done verbally - for example she is a really good reader and is ok reading to a teacher but she shuts doen and won’t speak when they try and see her comprehension and understand of the text. This is holding them back from moving her on because as far as they are aware she doesn’t understand what she has read.
She will answer a question if she can use one word but some days she needs lots of encouragement for that. She has some good friends at school but she doesn’t talk much to them either.
What should we do from here? I’ve always said she is selective mute but no one really listens.
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Plummer88 · 18/10/2017 19:34
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