Gertrud L. Wyatt
Austrian-born American psychologist (1903–1993) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gertrud Lasch Wyatt (née Schmidt; October 14, 1903 – November 4, 1993) was an Austrian-born American psychologist and education academic. Originally a radio personality for Radio Wien and a voice theory educator, she was educated at the University of Vienna and was part of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society before fleeing Austria after the Anschluss. After spending a year in London, she settled in Massachusetts, where she was full-time psychologist and director of speech services for Wellesley Public Schools from 1953 and 1974. As an academic, she was a 1965 Guggenheim Fellowship and wrote the 1969 book Language Learning and Communication Disorders in Children.
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Born | Gertrud Schmidt (1903-10-14)October 14, 1903 Vienna, Austria |
Died | November 4, 1993(1993-11-04) (aged 90) Wellesley, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Occupation | Psychologist |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1965) |
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Thesis | Mother-child relationships and stuttering in children (1958) |
Doctoral advisor | Chester C. Bennett |
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Discipline | Psychology |
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