Anne McAllister (speech therapist)

Anne Hutchison McAllister FRCSLT OBE (29 November 1892 – 5 April 1983) was a leading Scottish speech therapist and teacher.

Anne McAllister
in 1937
Born29 November 1892
Biggar
Died5 April 1983
Glasgow
NationalityUnited Kingdom
OccupationSpeech therapist
Academic background
EducationGlasgow University

Life

McAllister was born in Biggar in Lanarkshire in 1892. Her father Robert Dempster McAllister was married to Anne Huchison McAllister. She took a first and then master's degree (in 1917) at Glasgow University.[1]

She became a lecturer in phonetics at Stow College She became a lecturer at Jordanhill College of Education and an experienced speech therapist. In 1924 she obtained a B.Ed from her alma mater.[2] In 1935 she created the Glasgow School of Speech Therapy and she became its first director. The following year she established speech therapy for children who had undergone surgery to fix Cleft lip and cleft palates at Glasgow's Royal Hospital for Sick Children. This was following an invitation by Matthew White who was the surgeon carrying out the surgery.[2]

In 1937 she published Clinical Studies in Speech Therapy which described her study of 21,000 children in Dumbartonshire and there speech problems.[1] The survey also presented some advice and McAllister stressed the importance of a dual approach of psychology and reeducation.[3]

She became a founding fellow of the College of Speech Therapists (now the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists) in London in 1945.[4] Allister was awarded an OBE in 1954. In 1964 she stood down from being the director of the Glasgow School of Speech Therapy.[1] McAllister was a Soroptimist and a member of the Glasgow Club.

McAllister died in Glasgow in 1983.[2]

References
  1. "University of Glasgow :: Story :: Biography of Anne McAllister". www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  2. Renfrew, C. (2004-09-23). McAllister, Anne Hutchison (1892–1983), speech therapist and teacher. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 17 Jan. 2018, see link
  3. John Rumsey (16 April 2013). The Stammerer's Choice - A Comparative Survey of Speech Therapy. Read Books Limited. pp. 43–. ISBN 978-1-4733-8871-0.
  4. "RCSLT Honours Roll Call". Royal College of Speech and Lanuage Therapists. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
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