Anna is a Little Person, specifically, an Achondroplasia Dwarf, which is the condition where the trunk and head are average sized and the arms and legs are shorter. She should grow to 4 feet tall and is now about 3 feet tall.
Unfortunately, she has been cast aside to a special needs orphanage. She is in an orphanage for 4-7 year olds, even though she is eleven. A few others, one mute girl and one boy with a fatal heart condition, are about her age as well, and we figure are kept at the younger orphanage for their own physical protection from the older children. The rest of the kids there have some kind of mental disability, with most of them having Down's Syndrome.
Anna (pronounced "Onna" and her nickname is Anya) is the shining star of the orphanage academically, because she has been taught to count to ten. That's it. No reading, no writing, no 'rithmetic. She is very sharp and has all the songs sung there (by anyone) memorized and the dance moves as well. I'm sure she has figured out quite a bit about the earth, being outside so often, but I don't think she has ever left the grounds!! It will be awesome to see her flourish, once here!!
Unfortunately, she has been cast aside to a special needs orphanage. She is in an orphanage for 4-7 year olds, even though she is eleven. A few others, one mute girl and one boy with a fatal heart condition, are about her age as well, and we figure are kept at the younger orphanage for their own physical protection from the older children. The rest of the kids there have some kind of mental disability, with most of them having Down's Syndrome.
Anna (pronounced "Onna" and her nickname is Anya) is the shining star of the orphanage academically, because she has been taught to count to ten. That's it. No reading, no writing, no 'rithmetic. She is very sharp and has all the songs sung there (by anyone) memorized and the dance moves as well. I'm sure she has figured out quite a bit about the earth, being outside so often, but I don't think she has ever left the grounds!! It will be awesome to see her flourish, once here!!
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