Scoping grant: Childhood and speech therapy in twentieth-century Britain (360G-Wellcome-219750_Z_19_Z)

£46,123

For much of the twentieth century, children in Britain interacted with speech therapists in hospitals, private practice and the local school medical services. Emerging from the end of the eighteenth century and forming a recognised College in 1945, speech therapists became a medically-allied profession over the course of the period between 1900 and 2000. To date, however, there has been no dedicated historiographical study of speech therapy provision – either from the perspective of the therapists or their young patients. The proposed research undertaken during this grant will provide an opportunity to scope a variety of manuscript, published and oral history sources that may be used to tell the story of this profession and those who used it. By allowing a preliminary engagement with the evidence base, this initial scoping will also contribute to the development of a sound theoretical and analytic framework for a project that has the capacity to speak to on-going debates across several historiographies as well as concerns within the medical humanities - addressing the nature of children’s experiences (as ‘patients’ or recipients of therapy), the socio-cultural construction of disability, and the porous boundaries between medicine and the world of arts and theatre.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 46123
Applicant Surname Burchell
Approval Committee Internal Decision Panel
Award Date 2020-09-30T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2019/20
Grant Programme: Title Discretionary Award – C&S
Internal ID 219750/Z/19/Z
Lead Applicant Dr Andrew Burchell
Partnership Value 46123
Planned Dates: End Date 2021-05-01T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2019-11-01T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region West Midlands