Cat taught the sick boy to communicate with people Bashny.Net

The seven-year Lorcan Dillon (Lorcan Dillon) from Deyvium (Davyhulme) UK suffers a rare form of the disorder, so-called selective mutism.
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Because of his illness, Lorcan could not communicate normally with his classmates and even their parents. Especially with regard to the expression of emotions. To somehow get him to talk, and learn to express their feelings, his mother bought a Burmese cat named Jesse, Kate (Jessi-cat). She had heard that cats can help children with similar problems like autism.

From that day has been almost two years Lorcan and now can safely say your mom or a friend, "I love you." For the first time in his life. He formed a cat incredibly strong connection. Boy hugs and even kisses the animal, which is very strongly attached. Lorcan's mother calls a cat a delicious and responsive.

According to the mother, her son and began to chat with one of his school teachers, who previously could not say a couple of words.

The first selective mutism Lorcan was put in 3 and a half years after the kindergarten teachers noticed that the boy hardly communicate with adults and little contact with other children. Similar syndromes occur in one child in 1000, but have many forms and manifestations.

Cat Jesse -Kathy by which Lorcan gradually learning to communicate with people, was nominated for a national UK award Cats Protection National Cat Awards in 2012 for Best friend.

Selective mutism, selective mutism, or - a rare disorder, and yet poorly understood. It is shown that the person is very difficult to talk with other people, sometimes it is simply impossible to express their emotions with words and he is silent. Extent of the disease may be different. Sometimes people mostly speak quite freely, stopped only rarely, but sometimes clamped permanently and they can not be pulled out of the word.



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