301:. Morley served as its third president from 1971–1973. Throughout her career, she forged strong links with speech therapy profession in the US, Australia and New Zealand where she travelled widely as a visiting professor. She was involved in achieving reciprocal recognition of speech therapy qualifications in the US and was made an honorary member of the American Cleft Palate Association and honorary fellow of the Australian College of Speech Therapists.
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profession. Eventually, she persuaded the university in
Newcastle, still then part of the University of Durham, to investigate the possibility of setting up a degree. In 1959, Morley's idea was realised and she delayed her retirement in order to establish the course. She was appointed lecturer in speech and speech pathology in the departments of child health and education, founding head of what became the first department of Speech in Britain.
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In 1980, Morley was appointed OBE in acknowledgement of her pioneering work in research and education in speech therapy. Donald Court, professor of child health at
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Between 1940 and 1945 people were becoming increasingly aware of speech therapy and the profession gained more recognition. By 1945 Morley had set up
Newcastle's hospital speech therapy service and was now working full-time as a therapist in three different hospitals. Her treatment covered a variety
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Morley joined the ultimately successful campaign against registration under the Bill for
Professions Supplementary to Medicine because she was convinced that the profession, in order to survive, must exist as a discipline completely separate from general medicine. A national referendum of speech
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ex-servicemen suffering from head injuries sustained in World War II. As Morley's practice expanded, she was obliged to involve parents in the treatment of their child's speech and language disorder to manager her bulging caseload. However, soon she recognised the benefits of this and became an
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Morley made her first of several visits to the US in 1951 where she found the standard of clinical work was below that of the UK, but that academically the training was more extensive. Upon her return to the UK, Morley hoped that a university degree course might persuade more people into the
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for children with cleft palate and wanted an "educated woman" to assess the speech skills of the children before and after surgery, to help determine the effectiveness of the operation. Through this work, Morley began specialising as a speech therapist working with cleft palate patients. She
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During her retirement, Morley lived in
Northumberland where she enjoyed the last thirty years of her life. The photography that she learned as part of her original cleft palate work remained a lifelong hobby. Morley never married but was described as being devoted to her family. She died of
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One of her major studies, with colleagues in Child Health, Neurology and
Statistics was conducted between 1950 and 1953. During this time, Morley's department researched into the normal and abnormal development of speech in a group of over 1000 children at ages 2,4,6 and 15 as part of the
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Newcastle for ten years before taking up a teaching post in India. Whilst working in India, Morley contracted dysentery and upon her return to England she was advised that she was no longer strong enough for work in the classroom.
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Morley's book gave thorough descriptions of the anatomy of cleft palate, surgery, associated speech problems and practical suggestions for treatment. It became a source of standard work in this field when published in 1945.
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In 1932, after working as a secretary due to her forced change of career, Morley responded to an advertisement placed by
William Wardell, a plastic surgeon located in Newcastle upon Tyne. Wardell had developed a new type of
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subsequently trained formally as a speech therapist by working with colleagues in
Liverpool and London in hospitals and school clinics. In 1938 she gained the diploma of the British Society of Speech Therapists.
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in Newcastle upon Tyne. Whilst working for two sessions a week, she spent time preparing a thesis on cleft palate, which later became the basis for her book
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in the United States of America. In 1958, on the basis of this book, Morley was awarded the degree of DSc by the University of Durham.
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