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.
Read the full report in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.
