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Imogen is a mermaid-obsessed child who never speaks except to echo what she hears. Athena, her mother, has tried many ways to make her speak, but none have worked. The doctors suggest Imogen is traumatised by her father's drowning when she was a baby.
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Writing Disability in Australia:
Type of disability Selective mutism and sustained echolalia. Type of character Primary. Point of view Third person.
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