A Virginia first grader named Anaya Ellick, used her good
handwriting to beat out 50 other youngsters from around the country to
win a national handwriting contest – the 2016 Nicholas Maxim Special
Award for Excellence in Manuscript Penmanship.
Little Anaya was born without hands and uses her forearms
to write, opting to forgo prostheses.
Her penmanship was submitted in
the category that encourages the participation of students with
cognitive delays, or intellectual, physical or developmental
disabilities. This category is judged by a team of occupational
therapists, and the winner is awarded the Nicholas Maxim Special Award
for Excellence in Penmanship.
According to the Principal of her school, it was her idea
to have Anaya enter the competition, which is open to students in
kindergarten to eighth grade. She said,
“There is truly very little that this girl cannot do. She
is a hard worker. She is determined. She is independent. She is a
vivacious and a no-excuses type of young lady.”
Anaya entered the competition and successfully won. The
competition director Kathleen Wright told ABC News that, “We looked at
her writing and were just stunned to see how well her handwriting was,
considering she writes without hands. Her writing sample was comparable
to someone who had hands.”
Source: ABC News
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