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Margaret Walker (speech Therapist)
Margaret Walker (b. 1938) is a British speech and language therapist who co-developed the language programme Makaton in the 1970s. Career Walker was one of the three developers of the language programme Makaton. The name of the programme is derived from the first letters of the names of the three therapists who helped devise the programme in the 1970s: Margaret Walker, Katharine Johnston and Tony Cornforth. Walker was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists in 1986, and appointed MBE in the 1997 Birthday Honours for services to Healthcare whilst working at St George's, University of London. In 2019 she was recognised in the Pride of Britain Awards. Publications * (with Hooper, H) (2002). "Makaton peer tutoring evaluation: 10 years on". ''British Journal of Learning Disabilities'', 30, 38–42, BILD Publications * (with Grove, Nicola) (1990). "The Makaton Vocabulary: Using manual signs and graphic symbols to develop interpersonal communic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speech And Language Therapist
Speech is a human vocal communication using language. Each language uses phonetic combinations of vowel and consonant sounds that form the sound of its words (that is, all English words sound different from all French words, even if they are the same word, e.g., "role" or "hotel"), and using those words in their semantic character as words in the lexicon of a language according to the syntactic constraints that govern lexical words' function in a sentence. In speaking, speakers perform many different intentional speech acts, e.g., informing, declaring, asking, persuading, directing, and can use enunciation, intonation, degrees of loudness, tempo, and other non-representational or paralinguistic aspects of vocalization to convey meaning. In their speech, speakers also unintentionally communicate many aspects of their social position such as sex, age, place of origin (through accent), physical states (alertness and sleepiness, vigor or weakness, health or illness), psychological ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
