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.
Character Traits:She is extremely intelligent and aware of her surroundings. She loves music, the people in her family, and her caregivers. She wants more than anything to be a normal pre-teen girl.
Physical Traits: Lives with Cerebral Palsy, a physically debilitating disease that occurs before birth. She is unable to control her body with the exception of some motion in one hand. She cannot speak.
Significant Moment:When she gets her new communication board and can finally tell her parents "I love you".
Mom
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Dad
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Mrs. Violet Valencia
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Catherine
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Rose
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Mr. Dimming
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Claire
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Penny
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