boo!!!

just saw this on the news and i'm not the least bit surprised
The Dog Who Helped A Boy To Speak
After Six Years Of Silence, Marc Met Boo And Opened Up
CBS) Every kid in Penny Weiser's first-grade class is capable of making noise. Marc Oliviere had just chosen not to. "Lovely little guy. Seemed, you know, happy to be in school. And he was not talking," Weiser told CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman. It's actually not uncommon for some kids to clam up at school. It's called "selective mutism." But this was different. "How was school? Nothing," Marc's mom, April said. He didn't talk at home, either. "Where would you like to go today? Nothing," she said. Not ever. For six years. It was six years and barely a peep, even though doctors could find nothing medially wrong with the child. Everyone was at wit's end, until one day last December when Marc came home from school looking like he was about to burst. "So I look at little Marc and I say, 'Marc, do you want to tell me something?'" his mom said. "And out comes, 'Boo!'" That's right. "Boo." ...........