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00:00Hi, my name is Melody Brooks, and I have cerebral palsy. Go ahead and stare. It's 2002
00:06You've never seen a girl in a wheelchair who doesn't talk before?
00:10Here's a list of things I'll never get used to. Butts in my face because people don't see me.
00:16Staircases. People who say hi, but sound so sad.
00:20Obviously, this isn't my voice. I can't talk. And I can sound like whoever I want.
00:26So I picked Jennifer Aniston.
00:30Melody exceeds all my expectations. Why don't you raise your expectations? She loves to learn.
00:36It's hard to be objective about your own daughter's limitations.
00:39Hi, I am working on a program to integrate her into the regular classrooms. Who's gonna turn the pages of her book?
00:46Who's gonna take her to the bathroom? I don't know, but it feels so right.
00:52Yes, finally!
00:54But this, please pick something good. This, uh, that's hideous. You must be our visitors. We are.
01:01For 1,000 points, who was the first European to discover America? Christopher Columbus.
01:08Melody?
01:13Leif Erikson. That's correct. Mr. Dimmings didn't say anything. Claire. She's from the special room. That's enough. Well, that went well.
01:21What's this? I met a talker. How much is it? $17,000. She wants to call her friends and gossip about boys.
01:31Choose your voice. You pick, it's your voice. Hello. Melody?
01:39Daddy, how are you today?
01:45You're so beautiful.
01:48Liz's kids tryouts are upon us.
01:53Is that a talking computer? Make it say something. Connor, he's nice. You like him? Yeah. You want to kiss him?
02:02I made Liz's kids. Of course, you're a fighter.
02:08You have a voice.
02:11Let them hear you.
02:13Sometimes I need a push, but I won't be pushed around.