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What the Anne McDonald Centre does
The Anne McDonald Centre provides assessment and therapy for people -- any age, any diagnosis --with little or no functional speech.
If clients' speech needs augmentation, we find communication aids they can use. Then we teach these clients and their support teams how to use their new voices. Read more...
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Who comes to the Anne McDonald Centre?
Anyone who can’t speak – including people with diagnoses of
Autism/ASD, Cerebral Palsy, Down syndrome, Intellectual Disability, Rett syndrome, GDD, ABD, MND, MS, CVA, for starters...
WHAT'S NEW -
A Tea Party, But With Dinosaurs
The Hero's Journey
Young Tim Chan has written Back From The Brink, a no-holds-barred autobiography from a young man with communication problems who's had every challenge that you can think of, and then some. You can get copies here.
Nothing About Us Without Us
Victor, Mitch, and Tim, three of the Centre's clients ,took their message to the 2018 conference of AGOSCI, the Australian national communication therapist's conference, on the Gold Coast. See what they said here.
SBS: The Feed
There's been quite a good documentary on communication difficulties on the SBS, and our Director and many of her clients get a chance to say what's wrong with the system. You can find it here.
HREC
The Anne McDonald Centre has now established a Human Research Ethics Committee to guide its research activities.
Do you know anybody whose intelligence has been underestimated because they've been tested using the WISC or the WAIS, tests which require speech?
The Anne McDonald Centre is breaking new ground here - and bringing hope to thousands. See the results we're getting. This is genuinely exciting, and everybody who can't speak needs to know about it.
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The Anne McDonald Centre now has the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission ACNC CHARITY TICK!So it's a good time to donate - see the DONATE link to GiveNow over to the right there and down a bit. Help us to help you. |
The Anne McDonald Centre calls on the government to fund iPads for AAC
Communication disability and Moby Dick
A piece on non-speech communication that ran the other day on the No Limits program on community television station C31 - including a panel discussion that includes Leane Leggo, the Centre's eloquent president
Here's a short video on the Centre made by Rebecca Seidner, an AAC user
Rosemary Crossley's ISAAC conference presentation,
"iPads and the Assessment of Potential AAC users - a game changer"
Our 2012 ISAAC conference paper, "Anne McDonald - the advocacy legacy of an AAC pioneer"
"First Words", a 60 Minutes segment on people with autism learning communicate with iPads
What the Anne McDonald Centre offers
- Communication therapy throughout Victoria
- Communication consultancy across Australia
- Communication leadership across the world
The Right to Communicate
Everyone – everyone – who cannot speak should have the means and the opportunity to communicate in another way. Read more...
How you can help
Breaking the silence
Read more Click here to read more
and to see the video in larger format
