Margaret Cicely Langton Greene OBE FRCSLT was a British speech and language therapist.
Margaret Cicely Langton Greene | |
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| Born | 16 July 1913 |
| Died | 26 September 2007 Wingrave |
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| Sub-discipline | Voice disorders |
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She was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists in 1957.[1] She was also the editor of its Bulletin and its journal, Speech, in the mid- 1950s.[2] In 1957 Greene published The Voice and its Disorders, which represented a major contribution to the clinical assessment and treatment of voice disorders and was amongst the few texts available on the subject at the time.[3] The book is now into its 6th edition, most recently updated and re-published in 2001 by Lesley Mathieson.[4]
In 1968 she founded AFASIC, the Association for all speech impaired children, a charity for children with speech problems.[5]
Margaret Greene received an OBE in the 1987 Birthday Honours for services to Speech Therapy.[6][7]
Publications
edit- 1957. The Voice and its Disorders
- 1960. Learning to Talk. A guide for parents. London, William Heinemann.
References
edit- ^ "RCSLT Honours Roll Call". Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. Archived from the original on 2018-06-19. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
- ^ "1981-1990: The Thatcher years". Bulletin of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. 642. October 2005. Archived from the original on 2018-10-21.
- ^ Meyerson, M. D. (2003). "Book Review: Greene & Mathieson's The Voice and Its Disorders (6th edition)". Topics in Language Disorders. 23 (1): 68–69. doi:10.1097/00011363-200301000-00009.
- ^ Greene and Mathieson's the voice and its disorders. WorldCat. OCLC 247904975. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
- ^ "Afasic – how did it all begin? – Afasic". Archived from the original on 2017-05-12.
- ^ "SUPPLEMENT TO The London Gazette". The Gazette: Official Public Record. 12 June 1987. p. 9.
- ^ "Afasic | Finding a Voice". dysphasia.co.uk.