Lately, there are many movies and TV shows being made that discuss differently abled children and how including them in the school curriculum should be normalized. Only two weeks ago, Netflix Poland released The Mothers of Penguins, a miniseries about mothers dealing with their children who are differently abled. It has to be one of the most realistic portrayals of what the parents go through while raising children with special needs. Keeping that in mind, Amber Sealy’s film, Out of My Mind, is also about a young girl named Melody who has cerebral palsy and how her parents want a normal life for her by giving her a proper education.

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What was Melody’s condition?

Melody was a 12-year-old girl who’d suffered from cerebral palsy from birth. She was unable to communicate verbally and had visual cues on her wheelchair that helped her communicate with her parents,...