Anne McDonald
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Anne McDonald
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Anne McDonald. Born on 11 January 1961 in Seymour, Victoria, a small Australian town. an Australian author and an activist for the rights of people with communication disability. As a result of a birth injury she developed severe athetoid cerebral palsy . Cerebral Palsy. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Anne McDonald
Born on 11 January 1961 in Seymour, Victoria, a small Australian town
an Australian author and an activist for the rights of people with communication disability.
As a result of a birth injury she developed severe athetoid cerebral palsy.
Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral palsy is a group of non-progressive, non-contagious motor conditions that cause physical disability in human development, chiefly in the various areas of body movement.
Anne McDonald also is mute
Mute
Can’t talk
Annie’s Coming OutMcDonald wrote her story in Annie’s Coming
Out, a book she co-authored with Rosemary Crossley in 1980 (the film Annie's Coming Out based on the book won several Australian Film Institute awards and was released in the U.S. under the title 'Test of Love'). The book has been translated into German and recorded on tape. It won the inaugural Allen Lane Award for the best book of the year dealing with disability.
Anne McDonald died at 22 October 2010 by an unexpected heart
attack
Thank You!
