Sara Mae Stinchfield Hawk (1885–1977) was the first person in America to receive a Ph.D. for Speech-Pathology and co-founded the American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA) in 1925.
[2] Sara Mae Stinchfield Hawk was born in Auburn, Maine in 1885.
[3] After earning her Ph.D., Sara Mae Stinchfield Hawk became a professor at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.
[3] Most of her career was spent teaching at colleges and universities and she encouraged schools to develop classes in speech and hearing.
[2][3] In 1925, Sara Mae Stinchfield Hawk, along with twenty-four other people, founded ASHA.