Catherine Easton Renfrew


Catherine Easton Renfrew,, was a British speech therapist.

Career

Renfrew was Chief Speech Therapist for United Oxford Hospitals.
During her career Renfrew pioneered three forms of expressive language assessments: The Renfrew Action Picture Test, in which a child describes a picture with a single sentence, assesses the length and complexity of spoken sentence structure in 3-8 year olds; the Renfrew Bus Story involves story re-telling to assess oral and narrative skills in 3-8 year olds; and Renfrew word finding assesses word finding abilities through the naming of pictures and the recording of errors in 3-9 year olds.

Awards

Renfrew was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists in 1950. She was awarded the Honours of the RCSLT in 1982. Following her death, the RCSLT instituted a biennial award in her memory. The Catherine Renfrew Memorial Award encourages international collaboration and attendance at non-UK conferences and events through an award of £500.
She was awarded a MBE in the 1974 Birthday Honours.

Selected publications