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Melissa Crisp-Cooper
Melissa Crisp-Cooper is a writer, adventure seeker, and advocate. She uses many forms of AAC. Melissa is the Associate Director of Participant Experience at The Arc San Francisco. Before joining The Arc, she helped develop educational and policy material related to health care for people with disabilities for the Office of Developmental Primary Care at UCSF. Melissa and her husband Owen live in Oakland, California with two opinionated black cats! Together, they love to travel and eat good food.
Webcast Description
Melissa describes her experiences, observations, and perspectives as a person who uses AAC, and how technology has made things both easier and harder… This presentation was first made at the Future of AAC Research Summit on May 13, 2024.
Cite as
Crisp-Cooper, M. (2024, May 13). Crossing the communication chasm [Conference session]. Future of AAC Research Summit, Arlington, VA. https://tinyurl.com/AAC-Crisp-Cooper-2024
Video production by Rylie Mueller (Penn State University)
Additional resources
Crisp-Cooper, M. (2025). Crossing the communication chasm. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, early online. https://doi.org/10.1080/07434618.2025.2499681