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Rosemary Crossley
Australian promoter of facilitated communication · Australia · On the map · Writers · Lived 1945 to 2023 · aged 78
Rosemary Crossley was an Australian author and advocate for disability rights, whose legacy was highly controversial. She was one of the first major advocates for facilitated communication (FC), a scientifically discredited technique which purports to help non-verbal people communicate.
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Crossley was the director of the Anne McDonald Centre near Melbourne, Victoria, which provided assessment and augmentative communication services in-person until her death, when they moved online. The award-winning 1984 film Annie's Coming Out, known as Test of Love in the USA, was made about her work and life with a woman named Anne McDonald, whom she met at St Nicholas's Hospital in Melbourne in the 1970s and later brought to live with her. Crossley died from cancer on 10 May 2023, at the age of 78.
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