Melody is a brilliant girl with an almost photographic memory. She has amazing thoughts and ideas, but she’s never shared them with anyone. In fact, she’s never spoken a word. Melody lives with cerebral palsy, and people don’t realize that she is gifted, because she can’t control her body. Learn more about Melody, and engage students with premade activities and storyboards with Storyboard That.
Mom, I'm tired of always wearing sweats. Please dress me in something trendy.
MAN vs. SELF
Dumb body! Why can't I just be like everybody else?
MAN vs. TECHNOLOGY
Ugh! I need to fill you up with all my words so I can say everything I want to!
Melody gets upset with her mother for dressing her for convenience and not fashionably.
Melody is angry with her own body. She doesn't understand why she has to be the way she is.
Melody struggles to enter all the information she wants her communication board to contain, so she can say all of the million things she's never been able to say.