1. Mary Sheridan's father was an Irish general practitioner and her mother was a district nurse.
10 Facts About Mary Sheridan
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Mary Sheridan earned a scholarship to attend the University of Liverpool School of Medicine, graduating in 1922.
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Mary Sheridan worked as a resident medical officer in several Liverpool children's hospitals before moving to Cheshire to work as a public health officer.
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Mary Sheridan then moved to Manchester to work as an assistant school medical officer, where she noticed that children who had been diagnosed late with hearing, speech and visual impairments suffered in their education.
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Mary Sheridan thought that, in order to diagnose these conditions earlier, a more thorough set of parameters for measuring children's development needed to be established.
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Mary Sheridan wrote a seminal textbook, From Birth to Five Years, first written in 1960 and published under that title in 1973, which described the normal parameters of children's development to assist in the diagnosis of developmental disorders.
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Mary Sheridan continued to perform research and lecture at Guy's Hospital, the Institute of Child Health, and the Nuffield Speech and Language Unit.
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Mary Sheridan was awarded the James Spence Gold Medal of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in 1968 for research into children's speech and language delays as well as hearing impairment, and developing the STYCAR tests.
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Alongside Dorothy Egan, Mary Sheridan has been credited with establishing developmental paediatrics as a specialty in the United Kingdom.
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Mary Sheridan died on 14 February 1978 from a myocardial infarction.