![]() ![]() V, Catherine, and Melody’s parents-Melody receives a Medi-Talker, a communication device that enables her to speak.ĭespite her newfound voice, Melody remains socially isolated. With the help of her support system-composed of Mrs. Shannon secures funding to hire an aide for Melody named Catherine, a university student who helps Melody take tests and participate in main-school classes. ![]() Having noticed Melody’s intelligence, Mrs. Shannon starts an inclusion program to bring H-5 students into main-school classes. When Melody enters fifth grade, she receives an electric wheelchair, which gives her greater autonomy over her mobility. Though she had at first been excited to enter school, the lack of intellectual stimulation in the segregated special-needs class disappoints her. Melody spends the next five years in the special needs classroom, room H-5. Melody’s mother tells the doctor off for his insensitivities and enrolls Melody at Spaulding Street Elementary. The doctor recommends that Melody’s parents put Melody in a care facility so they can get on with their lives without the burden of raising her. Hugely, administers flawed and biased tests, he determines that Melody is severely brain-damaged and mentally retarded. When she is five years old, Melody and her mother consult a specialist to determine if she should begin kindergarten. Together they build a more complex set of vocabulary words for Melody to point to on her Plexiglas communication board. V motivates Melody to achieve more than society expects of her. V, Melody’s neighbor and after-school caregiver, also recognizes Melody’s brilliance. Though most people in Melody’s life underestimate her abilities, Melody’s parents can see the intelligence in her eyes. In the beginning of the novel, Melody reveals she has never spoken a single word. Melody’s intelligence is mostly unrecognized by society at large, because of ableist prejudice that makes people assume her physical impairment must also affect her mental capacity. Though Melody cannot walk, talk, or feed herself, she has a photographic memory and a witty personality. Package content is not flexible and cannot be modified.Out of My Mind is a young adult novel written from the perspective of Melody Brooks, an eleven-year-old girl with cerebral palsy. Please note that if your order ships in multiple boxes, package components may not all be in the same box. The package item number is also listed at the bottom of your packing slip for reference. On your packing slip, package components are picked and packed individually and are identified with the code "PKGCMP" in the price column. Any backordered components will ship separately as they become available. In-stock components will ship according to our normal shipping time. When you order a package, you are charged one price for all package items. Because most package items or components are also sold separately and may be components of multiple packages, these items may not have the same inventory availability at any point in time. Although packages are sets, items are not physically bundled together. Any item sold as a package on our website is identified by a unique alpha-numeric item number (such as "APH1AB"). A listing of individual items that make up a package is provided on the package item's product detail page along with real-time item availability of those items. 295 pgs, pb.Ī "package" is made up of two or more items sold as a set, often for a reduced price. The back of the book includes 10 reading group discussion topics. She just wants her words to be let “out of her mind.” This New York Times best seller is such an eye-opening and inspiring novel to anyone of any age willing to listen. Maybe the school will let her attend normal classes where she can actually progress in education like other kids her age. Maybe people will finally be able to understand her. V learns of a machine that can speak for people, she feels like it just might help Melody. V knows that Melody is smart, so she sets out to prove just how smart she really is. Ever since Melody was a baby, she loved to spend time with her. V, the next-door neighbor, who is a nurse that loves to help people. She has so much to say with no way of saying it-until. She may not walk, talk, or even eat on her own, but she sure is smart! She has a photographic memory in which she stores her memories, songs, and many thousands of words. She doesn’t see herself being any different from other kids mentally but physically, she’s confined to a motorized wheelchair. She has cerebral palsy, leaving her no control over her own body other than her thumbs. When it’s time for school, she goes with other kids like her-or at least that’s what she’s told. When she sees an action, she sometimes hears a song. When she hears a song, she feels a color. Melody is a unique, 10-year-old girl who loves words and music. ![]()
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