I think Melinda’s parents thinks her problem is that she’s not talking and she’s not expressing her self or making friends. She doesn’t speak when someone’s talking to her or asking her a question Melinda’s not speaking up. Her counselor thought she was getting beat at home because she wasn’t speaking to any one or and she was not speaking at all to any one when the counselors was pulling her into their offices to talk to her about speaking and talking to people and to talk if they are beating her of her parents then they called her parents in to talk about a lot of things like if they are beating her or if she’s to shy she doesn’t speak up to anyone she’s to afraid to speak up of her opinion. The counselors and the teachers asked her something but she didn’t speak up and her parents freaked out telling her to speak up but she {Melinda} didn’t speak up she just ignored and daydreamed. But I also think that if Melinda learns to speak up and be more mouth active to talk she would be better off because she would have a lot less stressed out parents people or others wouldn’t think differently about her like the counselors did about thinking that she’s getting beat at home by her parents