The Right to Communicate

Deal	Changing the World - One voice at a time
Home Page About us How DEAL helped us: DEAL clients tell their stories How DEAL can help you SCI - Severe Communication Impairment AAC - Augmentative and Alternative Communication FCT - Facilitated Communication Training The Right to Communicate How you can help DEAL: Join, Donate, Volunteer Resources Links Shop	THE RIGHT TO COMMUNICATE. All people communicate. The right to communicate is a both a basic human right and the means by which all other rights are realized. In the name of fully realising the guarantee of individual rights, we must ensure • that all people have a means of communication which allows their fullest participation in the wider world; • that people can communicate using their chosen method, and • that their communication is heeded by others. Where people lack an adequate communication system they deserve to have others try with them to discover and secure an appropriate system. No person should have this right denied because they have been diagnosed as having a particular disability. Access to effective means of communication is a free speech issue.
DEAL Communication Centre Inc., 538 Dandenong Road, Caulfield, Victoria 3162, AUSTRALIA Ph. (61-3) 9509 6324 Fax. (61-3) 9509 6321 e-mail: dealcc@deal.org.au	DEAL has now seen over 2,000 clients with diagnoses that include Autism/ASD Cerebral Palsy Down Syndrome Intellectual Impairment Learning Disability Fragile X Syndrome Rett Syndrome Stroke/CVA Persistent/Permanent Vegetative State Acquired Brain Damage Motor Neurone Disease/ALS Huntington's Disease. DEAL has been able to help people with all of these diagnoses to communicate.