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Anne McDonald

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.

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Anne McDonald

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  1. Anne McDonald

  2. Born on 11 January 1961 in Seymour, Victoria, a small Australian town

  3. an Australian author and an activist for the rights of people with communication disability.

  4.  As a result of a birth injury she developed severe athetoid cerebral palsy.

  5. CerebralPalsy 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

  6. Mute Can’t talk

  7. Annie’s Coming Out McDonald wrote her story in Annie’s Coming Out, a book she co-authored with Rosemary Crossleyin 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.

  8. Anne McDonald died at 22 October 2010 by an unexpected heart attack

  9. Thank You!

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