Rosemary Crossley has been director of DEAL Communication Centre in Melbourne since it opened in 1986.  She has worked with children and adults with severe communication impairments for more than thirty years.

In the late seventies Rosemary taught a group of teenagers with cerebral palsy to communicate through spelling.  Rosemary later co-authored a book, Annie’s Coming Out (later made into the film of the same name), with Anne McDonald, her first student.

Since then Rosemary has written several more books, including Facilitated Communication Training and Speechless.  She consults and lectures in many countries, mainly on strategies for facilitating and augmenting communication.

Christchurch University, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore), La Trobe University, Lesley College (Boston), Northern Illinois University, Syracuse University (N.Y.), University of New Hampshire, University of Wisconsin at Madison, University of Texas at Austin, Deakin University, University of Cologne, University of Michigan, Chapman University (California),  Victoria University, University of Maine.