Son Reduced 4 Teachers to Tears - Selective Mutism!

[her8y]

How lovely. What a fantastic achievement.

[Mrs Book]

Oh wow what a fantastic achievement. You are allowed to be a proud mom

[Shirlwith3]

that is fantastic , got tears in my eye now.

There is a little girl in my dd's class (reception) & she uses a wheel chair but recently she has started to use a walking frame so for the psat 2 assembly's she has walked in as familis are allowed to come too I was talking to her mumm last week & she gets very proud of her dd whenshe walks & must say I have tears in my eye too evry time I see.

[mama2three]

what a team - you should all be very proud of each other!!

[loocyloo]

thats so wonderful. well done all of you and esp DS.

made me cry reading it!

xxx

[sandy64]

what a fantastic achievement well done to him ive a tear in my eye too.

[Alibali]

How wonderful, you must be over the moon.

[sonia ann]

i have been reading about your sons progress with interest and cried when I read this post ....i am so pleased for you all

[funemnx]

Oh that's just amazing! Well done for all the hard work! My youngest of 4 really only speaks to me (he's 18 now) and people do feel that they need him to talk, but he does if he really needs to. It's wonderfull when they do talk!

[teacake2]

Well done for you and your son, it is fantastic when this happens. My special needs mindee who cannot walk unaided or say more than a dozen words took two steps on his own at school this week, his support assistant was so proud of him she spent the next 15 mins ringing everyone who is involved in his care. He is 5 this month.
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[Paws]

I am binking very, very, very hard so that I don't start bawling.

Please pass him on a big cuddle from me. That is such amazing progress, I can only imagine how you must be feeling.

[Carpet Monkeys]

Thank you all for your lovely supportive words ... we are still very excited about the progress made to date, just hope that the Easter Holidays don't set us back, but being the wonderful teacher she is, she has set DS a few challenges which involve him calling her and we are planning on an accidental bumping into each other one day during the holidays too!!

[LeanneC]

Ive actually got tears in my eyes...well done to your DS

One step at a time but fingers crossed he will talking the hind legs off a donkey soon xx

[Carpet Monkeys]

Another update for you all ... son's wonderful teacher came round to ours during the Easter Holidays for a cuppa and chat. DS chatted to her like she was a family friend, it was wonderful! It also transpires that she taught at the Primary School I went to and taught my sister - anyway, back to DS.

DS went back to school on Monday and put up his hand and answered a question, much to the surprise of all his class mates who all gasped in amazement ... he then continued throughout the week. On Thursday he had his session with the SENCO there was another teacher in the room (male), and he started talking about Match Attack cards, well that was it there was no stopping DS!

I've had an old colleague that I worked with over 10 years ago asking me for advice as she has a child at her school who has it too and they want myself and DS teacher to help out!

Then on Friday morning, I received a call from a local journalist and he wants to do an article for the local rag about Selective Mutism, his wonderful teacher and my DS, to bring it to the attention of the local community.

So it's all been good in the hood, the big thing this week is (apart from the photo shoot), class assembly on Thursday, DS has two lines to say ... watch this space, I'm so nervous for him!!!

[TheBTeam]

It sounds like your son is doing so well, hopefully he has past the worst of it now and you can all use the benefit of your experience to help others.

Good luck for your son on Thursday, i would take the tissues!

[monkey62]

Well done to your son. This are fantastic news

[huggableshelly]

absolutly fantastic, i'm in tears too as it reminded me of when my son spoke using a microphone for the first time in year 2 and he was clear too.

He had practices "thankyou for coming" at home, at school, in 1-1 and with his speech therapist for several weeks ..... parents who have known him since nursery welled up - as did teachers and I joined him on the stage in tears too!

Best of luck to him, may he continue on with his fantastic new use of communication.

[claire bear 72]

reduced me to tears too..........u must be so proud and ready to burst!!!!!

[peanuts]

you must be so proud of your ds. i bet there wont be many dry eyes after the assembly either

[WibbleWobble]

it just gets better doesnt it?


love mandy xxxxxx