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Belle4KP

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I am a lurker on this board. I was reading through the "Getting to know you" thread and saw your post. I'm curious about your DD's diagnosis of Selective Mutism.

 I am a preschool teacher and one of my parents is concerned about her DD and has specifically brought up Selective Mutsim. Her daughter talks fine at home and actually has an extensive vocabulary but will NOT talk to any adults other than her mom and grandma. She was at her previous daycare for a year and never said a word to her teachers.

 I would just like any information you could give me and how they came up with that diagnosis for your DD. I appreciate your time and any info you can give. I want to do my best to help this family.

 Thank you!

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  • bugmommybugmommy
    Belle - I was going to page you about selective mutism as well (oddly).  I was at a conference this weekend and saw a speaker that has had a lot of success with video modeling for various behaviors, including selective mutism.  A lady in the row behind me said that her daughter has this condition at school and I immediately thought of you because I remember you mentioning it before with your DD at school.  She said she had tried tons of approaches and nothing was working and the speaker (Scott Bellini) said this is one of the few things he has tried that has worked.  It seemed very easy to try, so I thought you might be interested.
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    Bugmommy.... so glad you made it to the conference. Sorry I didn't meet up with you. Hope it was lots of help!!
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  • stillhopingstillhoping

    My daughter talks up a storm at home but when in public she is quiet. She will not talk to adults etc. There have been a few tell tell signs, the first was that they three of them went to the same preschool since they were two, she NEVER talked to the teachers, she would answer questions by telling her brothers and then they would answer for her. She would talk to her friends while there but never adults. This past fall my sister came to visit, the three of us went on a shopping trip. The entire way to pick up my sister she talked my ear off, as soon as my sis got in the car, whom K knows well, she did not say another word.

     

    We went to a developmental Ped, the two of us K and I were playing in a room while the doctor watched us, she talked and talked and talked, the doctor comes in she does not say a word, doctor leaves, she talks up a storm. The boys are then put in there with her and me and the doctor watch from the two way mirror, she talks, her speech therapist goes in the room, someone she knows and has known for some time. She does not say a word, the therapist ask questions, she whispers the answers to her brothers but will not answer the therapist directly. 

     

    There were some other test as well as communication with her teachers. She is a classic case. 

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  • MaddysMama07MaddysMama07 member

    Thank you very much for the info. This is my student exactly. She talks fine with all of the kids but the second she even sees me looking in her direction she stops. When I ask her what center she wants to go to she will point but that's it. She's gotten hurt before and we don't even know until the next day when her mom says she mentioned it at home. She won't tell us and that scares me. Everything you described is exactly what her mom has described to me. I think I will be talking to her mom and maybe suggest taking her in to get some actual "testing" done.

    Thanks again.

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