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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-04-09 06:02 PM
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Orlando Magic Helps Mute Boy Find His Voice


All it took was a little Magic for a 4-year-old boy to find his voice.

While most Orlando Magic fans come to the games to see the action, all Izzy Rodriguez wants to do is listen to his son speak. It's a sound he thought he might never hear.

Diagnosed with an anxiety disorder called selective mutism, Ryan Rodriguez had never spoken more than a word or two while his preschool classmates chatted up a storm. But that changed one night when Ryan caught a Magic game on television and started pointing.

"He sat there and kept going, 'Me, me, play, play," Rodriguez told "Good Morning America. "So I turn around and I do crazy things."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=7753723&page=1
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-04-09 06:20 PM
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1. So glad Magic gave the family tickets
and that the little boy is opening up more and more each time they go to a game.
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