Margaret Cicely Langton Greene Explained

Margaret Cicely Langton Greene
Birth Date:	16 July 1913
Death Date:	2007
Death Place:	Wingrave
Occupation:	Speech Therapist
Sub Discipline:	Voice disorders
Workplaces:	RCSLT

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

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

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: RCSLT Honours Roll Call . Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists . https://web.archive.org/web/20180619214018/https://www.rcslt.org/honours_roll_call_1945-2016 . 20 October 2018. 2018-06-19 .
2. 1981-1990: The Thatcher years . Bulletin of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists . 642 . October 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20181021024555/https://www.rcslt.org/docs/bulletin/2005/Oct_2005 . 2018-10-21 .
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. 10.1097/00011363-200301000-00009 .
4. Book: Greene and Mathieson's the voice and its disorders . WorldCat . 247904975 . 20 October 2018.
5. Web site: Afasic – how did it all begin? – Afasic . https://web.archive.org/web/20170512054127/https://www.afasic.org.uk/about/afasic-how-did-it-all-begin/ . 2017-05-12 .
6. News: SUPPLEMENT TO The London Gazette . 12 June 1987 . The Gazette: Official Public Record . 9.
7. Web site: Afasic Finding a Voice . dysphasia.co.uk.