Katharine Elizabeth McBride

In total, McBride and Weisenberg's battery for aphasia included tasks that assessed word repetition, naming, automatic word sequences, understanding spoken language, reading, writing, sentence completion, understanding analogies and opposites, digit and letter span, and sound recognition.

[1] Only weeks after the final manuscript of the book was sent to the Commonwealth Fund in New York City for publication, Weisenberg died.

McBride did not continue research in clinical neuropsychology and instead switched her focus to educational psychology.

[1] On November 28, 1941, Katharine McBride became one of the youngest people to be named the president of an American university.

[5] McBride also was the Vice President of the College of Entrance Examination Board and Chair of the Committee on Tests.

[1] Even though not technically a practicing neuropsychologist, McBride continued to value standardization, confront measurement issues and develop test instruments.

[7] McBride made a televised appearance on ABC News Issues and Answers program on September 19, 1965.

[1] Overall, she is considered to be a pioneering figure among early aphasia clinicians and researchers who founded the field of clinical neuropsychology.