Dr Marie de Montfort Supple

Retired Staff Member

Dr. Marie de Montfort Supple qualified as a Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) in 1959 in the UK. She returned to Ireland and set up a clinical service for children and adults.

In 1969 she set up an education programme for SLTs in Dublin in association with the UK professional body. In 1979 she negotiated the transfer of the course to Trinity College, University of Dublin. She held the post of Director of the course until 1994 when she became Vice Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences. In 1998 she retired but continued for several years with clinical supervision of students, supervision and examination of theses and occasional lectures.

During the course of her career her main areas of interest have been Child Language Disability and Dyslexia. She has lectured on these topics in a number of countries including the USA, UK, Malta, Cairo, Jordan, Sweden and Czech Republic. She has been involved as external examiners and/or advisor for programmes in SLT in the UK, Malta and Jordan.

Professional Qualifications
1959 Diploma of the College of Speech & Language Therapists, London
1966 Diploma in the Teaching of Speech Therapy, Reading University (UK)
1971 Certificate of Clinical Competence American Speech & Hearing Association
1976 M. Phil. University of Reading (UK)
1991 Ph.D. Trinity College University of Dublin (IRL)

Awards
1965 World Health Organisation Fellowship
1986 Fellow of the College of Speech & Language Therapists
1992 Honours of Irish Association of Speech & Language Therapists
1994 Fellow of the American Speech Language Hearing Association
1994 Honours of Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists (UK)
2001 Honours of the International Association of Logopaedics & Phonetics

Contact Details

Clinical Speech and Language Studies
Trinity College
7 - 9 South Leinster Street
Dublin 2

Telephone: +353 1 896 1496
Fax: +353 1 232 1005
Email: mdsupple@tcd.ie