Elinor Wray

She then spent three months observing at the London County Council Stammering Centres before returning to Sydney in 1929.

She met (Sir) Robert Blakeway Wade who was an Australian orthopaedic surgeon and he supported her ambition.

[3] The first speech therapy clinic opened in 1931 at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children[4] with Wray in charge.

[2] Speech therapy seems to have stopped during the war as in 1949 the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children were restarting their courses.

[7] On 13 June 1981 Wray became a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in recognition of her contribution to speech therapy in the 1981 Birthday Honours.