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Anne McDonald






DEAL  - Breaking the Silence
If you have questions about whether a relative or friend can communicate, and how, this is the place to start.



If you're interested in my other work, check these out....

If you want to know about my years in hell, try St. Nicholas Hospital.

If you want to know what it did to me, read My Frankenstein.

If you want to know what I think of euthanasia, read this.

If you want to know more about my story, read the book I wrote with Rosemary Crossley - Annie's Coming Out, Penguin Books.  It's out of print, but second-hand copies are available on Amazon and Alibris.

If you want to know how I got out, look up Facilitated Communication Training.

If you want to know why communication is so important, read The Right to Communicate.

And read about the people who are trying to stop it.

And there's my work on The Terrible Triple C, another one of the ways in which professionals bastardize people with disability.

If you want to know how I enjoy myself, watch this.

Here are a few links to friends.

I also work for DEAL and CAUS, and speak on issues of disability.  For my most recent  articles on people without speech being bastardized see No Angel and Buried Alive.

I was honoured to be awarded a National Disability Award in 2008, for Personal Achievement: I don't really believe in personal achievement in this area, though, and I was rude enough to make a rabblerousing speech at the awards ceremony.

; they're working to see that nobody is left without a voice.

Back to the home page and start again...

Warning: there is quite a bit of overlap between these articles.  When you take as long as I do to spell a sentence you use it as often as you can, and the hell with repetition.

Or you can email me at anne.mcdonald@deal.org.au.
Mona