Margaret Cicely Langton Greene

Margaret Cicely Langton Greene FRCSLT OBE was a British speech and language therapist.

Margaret Cicely Langton Greene

FRCSLT OBE
Born16 July 1913
Died2007
Wingrave
Occupation
  • Speech Therapist
Academic background
Academic work
Sub-disciplineVoice disorders
Institutions
  • RCSLT

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 Green 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
  • 1957. The Voice and its Disorders
  • 1960. Learning to Talk. A guide for parents. London, William Heinemann.

References
  1. "RCSLT Honours Roll Call". Royal College of Speech and Lanuage Therapists. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  2. "1981-1990: The Thatcher years". Bulletin of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. 642. October 2005.
  3. Meyerson, M. D. (2003). "Book Review: Greene & Mathieson's The Voice and Its Disorders (6th edition)". Topics in Language Disorders. 23 (1): 68–69.
  4. "Greene and Mathieson's the voice and its disorders". WorldCat. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  5. "Afasic – how did it all begin? – Afasic".
  6. "SUPPLEMENT TO The London Gazette". The Gazette: Official Public Record. 12 June 1987. p. 9.
  7. "Afasic | Finding a Voice". dysphasia.co.uk.
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