Thanh Diep

Thanh Diep is a Vietnamese American woman with Cerebral Palsy. She interacts with people with the assistance of my Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) device called the Accent 1400. She has been an AAC user for 40 years. She has been using it since she was around nine years old. She is a Bridge School alumni, and attended one of the first Bridge School classrooms. She graduated from San Francisco State University in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies. She is a member of the Awareness Committee of the United States Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (USSAAC). She is a co-coordinator and when it is not on pause, she is the Treasurer for Bridging Committees Through Augmentative Communication (BCTAC). She is a mentor in the l Self-Determination Program at the Bridge School. She is a volunteer assistant and mentor to both the clinicians and participants at San Francisco State University Conversation Club, where future Speech Language Pathologists work with some individuals, who use AAC. She’s a local and international speaker. She is a mentor to many, artist, filmmaker and writer. She lives in San Francisco.

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