My selective mute son today

[janmumto5]

Got told of in school for being rude ..

Appartently my son who goes all day long without talking/interacting was sat on carpet with rest of his class (7pupils in total) listening to story teacher was reading and he just came out with this book is boring loud and clear!

And the teacher told him off for it said that was very rude now i personally if that had been me dealing with a selective mute child who suddenly speaks out in front of everybody which is a huge step forward i would have encouraged him to tell me how to make the book more interesting, got other children involved and tryed to get more speech out of him ETC whereas now he has told me he not talking again in school cos he gets told off when he does bless him

I got to admit tho i did lol when i was told as it so like my Dan to be so honest lol

lol, Dd1 has a friend at school that only talks to say 'PE is boring' and 'i hate bloody assembely' . He doesn't get told off but the other children get reminded that this is not the way to talk to people.

I guess in a way it was a natural reaction for the teacher to tell him off, maybe she didn't stop and think.

Well done to your ds though for speaking up (and telling the truth).

At one point, we thought my eldest had selective mutism and his teacher made a special effort to accept whatever he did say and turn it positive if needs be, as you rightly suggested your DS' teacher should have, then would praise him privately, away from the class so as not to embarass him.

Within weeks, we discovered he was fine, just a bit shy and needed some one on one encouragement.

Im requesting a meeting at the school with all teacher involved with my son as im not happy he is being told off for a/ being honest--what they want children to lie to make the teachers happy and b/ he spoke fgs and telling him off like that will make him refuse to speak or to anxious to speak again so it needs tackling am also letting his selective mute speech therapist know whats happened xxxx