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NY Times on Selective Mutism
by
JohnL
Posted
Fri 01 Apr 2005 12:00am
The 12 April 2005 issue of the New York Times carried a good story about selective mutism. Harriet Brown, who reported the story, avoided many of the traps that might... educator.
[She] asked her sister, a special education teacher, what she thought…. Her sister mentioned something called selective mutism, but quickly said that couldn’t apply
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Selective Mutism: A Teen Aberration Story
by
Penelope P.
Posted
Mon 22 Jun 2009 10:13pm
Most people think I’m just shy. They’re not wrong; not really. It’s just that there’s more to it than simply being shy. At age 4, I was diagnosed with Selective Mutism. I didn’t really know what it meant back then, only that it was difficult for me to make friends every time I moved to a new environment.
Selective Mutism (SM) is a little
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Talkative Mute: An Aberration Story
by
Penelope P.
Posted
Wed 09 Dec 2009 5:30am
, this is all peanuts compared to today's topic, Selective Mutism (SM).
I'd never heard of SM until last summer when a student wrote an essay for me on her aberration, which was SM. My... to others who are faced with SM. It's a poorly understood diagnosis that has not only become her daughter's aberration, but also her own.
Your daughter has Selective Mutism (SM
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The mysterious Mac mute problem
by
Kamal S.
Posted
Thu 31 Jul 2008 8:07pm
the problem.
Recently, I figured out that this happened as soon as I muted the sound on my Mac and then put it back on. After this, the system sounds would totally shut off.
So, now I do not mute the sound totally. I just reduce the volume in case I need to do that.
The system sounds are really important because they alert me for different events
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On mute
by
Polar Bear
Posted
Sun 24 Aug 2008 1:56pm
Sorry. Life's been on mute for a while. The minutes trickle past... and in this vacuum it's as if even my breaths are muted. Vacuum packed for your enjoyment.
Last week we worked things out. I explained a lot. Words, really. I came clean. I put words to my emotions. That's progress, at least. I wasn't on mute then. And V understood
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Mute the TV for the kids
by
Rosalie L.
Posted
Wed 14 Jan 2009 7:37pm
Have you noticed if you "mute" the television the kids continue to watch the television? I heard from a friend that her 5 year old son' s favorite movie is in Spanish... homework time, we "mute" the television while my grandson does his homework and he is still sneaking a look at the television, even without the sound.
This relates to how kids
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Muting Our Criticism of Obama: If We Don’t Speak Out Who Will?
by
Chelsea Green
Posted
Thu 10 Dec 2009 12:03pm
By Michael Ratner
From the Community Blogs.
At a reception I attended the other day a progressive acquaintance came up to me and said the left “must stop bashing Obama. Keep doing it and he will lose the election. We should be thankful for what we have.” I am not sure he thought that I was one [...]
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