Macalyne Fristoe

Background

Fristoe, Macalyne was born on March 14, 1931 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Daughter of George Miller and Brownie Appleton Watkins.

Education

Bachelor cum laude, Vanderbilt University, 1953. Master of Science, Vanderbilt University, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, 1972.

Career

Speech clinician East Tennessee Hearing & Speech Center, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1953—1954. Speech clinician, speech pathologist Bill Wilkerson Hearing & Speech Center, Nashville, 1955—1960, assistant director speech clinic, 1964—1967. Instructor speech pathology School Medicine Vanderbilt University, 1960, 1964—1967, instructor psychology, 1971—1972, assistant professor, 1972—1974.

Director language intervention study project Center Development & Learning Disorders Medical Center, University Alabama, Birmingham, 1974—1976. Assistant professor to associate professor department biocomm. University Alabama, 1974—1976.

Director speech clinic Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1976—1979, associate professor to professor department audiology & speech science, 1976—1996, director graduate programs department audiology and speech science, 1986—1990, 1992—1996, associate department head audiology and speech science, 1993—1996, associate professor to professor department psychological science, 1982—1996, professor emerita, since 1996. Speech clinician Nashville-Davidson County Schools, Nashville, 1955—1957. Consultant Vanderbilt Hospital, 1957—1960, L.B. Wallace Development Center, Decatur, Alabama, 1974—1978.

Research National Institutes of Health-NIAMDD kidney disease contract Vanderbilt Medical Center, 1971—1974. Member advisory board Indiana Resource Center for Autism, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1986—1994, Steer Speech and Hearing Clinics, Purdue University, 2000—2002. Reviewer National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 1990—1996.

Science reviewer National Institute Neurological and Commission Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, National Institute Child Health and Human Development, National Institute Deafness and Commission Disorders, Sensory Disorders and Language Study section National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, March of Dimes, Purdue University. Speaker in field.

Achievements

• Macalyne Fristoe has been listed as a notable professional, psychologist, educator, writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Language intervention systems for the retarded: A catalog of original structured language programs in use in the U.S

Membership

Fellow American Psychological Association, American Speech Language Hearing Association (certified clinical competence in speech pathology), American Association Mental Retardation (vice president communications disorders 1985-1986, president communications disorders division 1986-1987). Member National Council Communications Disorders (representative), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married James Houston Fristoe, June 4, 1953 (divorced November 1964). Children: James Houston Junior, Andrew McLean. Married John Leiper Freeman, Junior, January 20, 1966 (divorced October 1973).

Father:

George Miller

Mother:

Brownie Appleton Watkins

Spouse:

John Leiper Freeman

Spouse:

James Houston Fristoe

child:

James Houston Junior Fristoe

child:

Andrew McLean Fristoe