--- In selectivemutismsupportgroup2@yahoogroups.com, "nailstar4"
<nailstar4@...> wrote:
Where in Ontario are you? We just moved to Halifax from Ottawa at
Christmas...

I know the school that my son went to nobody had heard of this...we
had an awful time trying to convince teachers he wasn't doing it to
be defiant...I've emaild them some info now that I know about
it...hopefully if they run across it again things will go better.

I know what you mean about family...my Mother-in-law thinks it's
something that I've done (me being the worlds worst mother and
all...)

I'm just hoping that now that I know about it we'll be able to get
him some help...although he's been doing better here than he did in
Ottawa...perhaps it's because it's a smaller school and his teacher
is wonderful!

Good luck



>
> It's good to know that SM is starting to appear in the media;I
find
> people so ignorant,narrow-minded and unwilling to accept it as
> anything but stubborness.Family members have cut off relations
with us
> because my son doesnot speak to their four year-old,who
> is "traumatised" by this!They do not accept that he has SM,even
though
> he has been diagnosed by a psychologist AND psychiatrist,is
identified
> by the school and is having in-home help from a children's mental
> health org.I could tear my hair out!
> Fortunately,his teacher(Grade 1)is phenomenal,and he started to
> whisper to her on Valentine's Day.He's also making some progress
> outside school,but we know it will be a slow process.As far as I
am
> concerned,the more positive media coverage for SM,the better.These
> kids need as much support and understanding as possible to help
them
> through everyday situations that the rest of us take for granted.
>
> Rachel in Ontario.
>