AT HOME, Corrine behaves like a normal seven-year-old. She is chatty with her parents and her sister and loves telling stories to her grandfather.
At school, though, she is known as ‘the girl who doesn’t talk’. She freezes when a stranger speaks to her and stares blankly when asked for her name or age.
She kept silent through two years in kindergarten and now, four months into Primary 1, she has still not uttered a word to her teacher or classmates.
At first, her parents thought she was just shy. Her mother said: ‘I didn’t think it was a big problem. I just thought she was a little reserved when out in public.’
But once she entered kindergarten, they realised it was much more than that.
By Sandra Davie, Senior Writer
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