{"id":698,"date":"2013-09-25T11:33:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T18:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=698"},"modified":"2017-01-10T12:40:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T19:40:36","slug":"backus-ollie-lucy-1908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"BACKUS, OLLIE LUCY, 1908-1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University professor of speech; speech therapist and researcher. Born&#8211; August 12, 1908, Harbor Springs, Mich. Parents&#8211; Arthur and Kate McDuffee Backus. Education&#8211; Michigan College of Education in Kalamazoo for two years; University of Michigan, A.B, 1929, M.A., 1930; University of Wisconsin, Ph.D., 1933. Taught Latin and English in Bear Lake, Mich. for one year; directed Speech Clinic for the Beloit Wisconsin Public Schools, 1933-1935; served as chairman of the speech and drama department of State Teachers&#8217; College, Slippery Rock, Pa., 1937; taught at the University of Michigan, 1943-1949; and 1949-1960 taught at the University of Alabama and was director of the speech and hearing clinic; 1960- Professor of Clinical Speech at the University of Southern California; Director of Religious Education at St. Luke&#8217;s Episcopal Church, Monrovia, CA. \u00a0Author of\u00a0many articles in professional journals.\u00a0 A Fellow of the American Speech and Hearing Association and a member of the American Psychological Association. Died November 18, 1999.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Title pages of her books Speech in Education and Speech Therapy with Children; and\u00a0 William Stanley Hoole Special Collections of the University of Alabama.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speech in Education&#8211; a Guide for the Classroom Teacher. New York; Longmans, Green, 1943.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aphasia in Adults; the Rehabilitation of Persons With Loss or Disturbance of the Faculty of Speech Resulting in Brain Injury. Ann Arbor; University of Michigan, 1945.<\/p>\n<p>The Child With a Cleft Palate. Ann Arbor; University of Michigan, 1943.<\/p>\n<p>Speech Therapy with Children. Boston; Houghton, 1951.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Rehabilitation of Speech. New York; Harper, 1947.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: University professor of speech; speech therapist and researcher. Born&#8211; August 12, 1908, Harbor Springs, Mich. Parents&#8211; Arthur and Kate McDuffee Backus. Education&#8211; Michigan College of Education in Kalamazoo for two years; University of Michigan, A.B, 1929, M.A., 1930; University of Wisconsin, Ph.D., 1933. Taught Latin and English in Bear Lake, Mich. for one year; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6226,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/6226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}