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I have seen recently searches to get to my blog, the search string is ” selective mutism disorder blog”. My concern is the word disorder, puts such a negative outcome adn on the present condition and what that means to others. Selective mutism may be a condition, but not a disorder to me, this tags it as something bad and wrong. It is not and it just is happening to many children, including my son who overcame the condition. I am not sure this is the best way to phrase it.
Perhaps unenlightened doctors or teachers think of it that way and it may be the correct medical term, but I don’t like the labeling. I am sure a parent would not. It is happening to their child and they desperately want to find a way to have it get resolved, to getcured or what ever it takes to make this condition go away.
Disorder places these children with lower learning students and this is not the case, they are most likely highly gifted. If kept, placed or trapped in the system, they will loose their edge. Yes it is harder to teach and interact, but never give up, do not allow them to be placed in lower learning and behavioural classroom and do not allow this labeling of Selective Mutism.
