“…In Ukraine, they are treated as a specific group of vulnerable youth, with an appeal to special educational and socialization needs. Orphans' upbringing for a long postsoviet period was and still is based on the principle of compensation for family deprivation, mainly in a form of residential care (Lialiuk et al, 2019;Popovych et al, 2020;Udovenko et al, 2020). As the new connections, membership, and exchange networks we are building are always being calibrated with patterns from existing structures, we can hypothesize that communicational specificity of students deprived of parental care may take the form of redundancy or lack of participation, and inclusion, content, or other parameters of communication.…”