Deal	Changing the World - One voice at a time
Home Page About us How DEAL helped us: DEAL clients tell their stories How DEAL can help you SCI - Severe Communication Impairment AAC - Augmentative and Alternative Communication FCT - Facilitated Communication Training The Right to Communicate How you can help DEAL: Join, Donate, Volunteer Resources Links Shop	Our Director Dr. Rosemary Crossley A.M., M.Ed., Ph.D. Rosemary Crossley has been director of DEAL Communication Centre in Melbourne since it opened in 1986.  She has worked with children and adults with severe communication impairments for more than thirty years. In the late seventies Rosemary taught a group of teenagers with cerebral palsy to communicate through spelling.  Rosemary later co-authored a book, Annie’s Coming Out (later made into the film of the same name), with Anne McDonald, her first student. Since then Rosemary has written several more books, including Facilitated Communication Training and Speechless.  She consults and lectures in many countries, mainly on strategies for facilitating and augmenting communication. Publications Books Annie's  Coming  Out, 1980, Penguin  Books, Melbourne (with  Anne  McDonald)  Annie — Licht Hinter Mauern, 1990, Piper, Munchen  (with  Anne  McDonald)  Re-Inventing the Wheelchair - Technology and People with Handicaps, 1993, Swinburne University of Technology, (with Chris Borthwick and Anne McDonald) Facilitated Communication Training, 1994, Teacher’s College Press, Columbia University, N.Y. Gestützte Kommunikation: Ein Trainingsprogramm, 1997, Beltz Verlag, Basel Speechless, 1997, Dutton, N.Y. Il Metodo Della Comunicazione Facilitata, Quaderni di Savona Provincia, 1998 Journal Articles on Facilitated Communication Training Lending a hand - a personal account of facilitated communication training, American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology , 1992, 2, 18 Getting the words out; Facilitated Communication Training, Topics in Language Disorders,  August 1992, 12, 4, 29 (with Jane Remington-Gurney) Getting the words out: Case Studies in Facilitated Communication Training,  Topics in Language Disorders,  August 1992, 12, 4, 46 Sarah ; A Case Study in Facilitated Communication Training, European Journal of Disorders of Communication, 1997, 32, 1, 61 Language and Retardation, Psycholoqy, www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?10.038, On-line refereed journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA), 1999 (with C. Borthwick) Guest Lecturer  Christchurch University, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore), La Trobe University; Lesley College (Boston), Northern Illinois University, Syracuse University (N.Y.), University of New Hampshire, University of Wisconsin at Madison, University of Texas at Austin;, Deakin University, University of Cologne, University of Michigan, Chapman University (California),  Victoria University, University of Maine.
DEAL Communication Centre Inc., 538 Dandenong Road, Caulfield, Victoria 3162, AUSTRALIA Ph. (61-3) 9509 6324 Fax. (61-3) 9509 6321 e-mail: dealcc@deal.org.au	DEAL has now seen over 2,000 clients with diagnoses that  include Autism/ASD,  Cerebral Palsy,  Down Syndrome,  Intellectual Impairment,   Learning Disability,   Fragile X Syndrome,  Rett Syndrome,  Stroke/CVA,  Persistent/Permanent Vegetative State,  Acquired Brain Damage, Motor Neurone Disease/ALS, and Huntington's Disease.                DEAL has been able to help people with all of these diagnoses to communicate.