Fematale
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Hi everyone,
I'm new to this site so please forgive me if I appear to be ignorant. I am a hearing mom who has 4 hearing children. However, one of my sons has a severe case of selective mutism. It is an anxiety disorder that makes it impossible for him to talk to others outside of our home. He has been in therapy for a year and a half and while he is finally able to speak with his therapist, he's still unable to speak in school. This has proven to be more detrimental than I initially thought it would as he wouldn't ask to use the restroom or anything. I know a few "baby signs" from when my daughter had to learn during speech therapy and decided to teach him a couple of signs. Surprisingly he is able to communicate with his teacher with no problems and is elated that he can now somewhat communicate. His teacher is completely receptive and just as excited that we've finally figured out how he can have words. While it's easy enough to look up signs for "restroom", "drink", etc.; I want to learn and help teach him how to actually say sentences. I don't have a lot of money to take online courses and was wondering if there are any free sites available to teach me how to structure a sentence or simply where to begin with learning this beautiful language? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you,
Marcee
I'm new to this site so please forgive me if I appear to be ignorant. I am a hearing mom who has 4 hearing children. However, one of my sons has a severe case of selective mutism. It is an anxiety disorder that makes it impossible for him to talk to others outside of our home. He has been in therapy for a year and a half and while he is finally able to speak with his therapist, he's still unable to speak in school. This has proven to be more detrimental than I initially thought it would as he wouldn't ask to use the restroom or anything. I know a few "baby signs" from when my daughter had to learn during speech therapy and decided to teach him a couple of signs. Surprisingly he is able to communicate with his teacher with no problems and is elated that he can now somewhat communicate. His teacher is completely receptive and just as excited that we've finally figured out how he can have words. While it's easy enough to look up signs for "restroom", "drink", etc.; I want to learn and help teach him how to actually say sentences. I don't have a lot of money to take online courses and was wondering if there are any free sites available to teach me how to structure a sentence or simply where to begin with learning this beautiful language? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you,
Marcee