# Marie Clay

> Dame Marie Mildred Clay was a researcher from New Zealand known for her work in educational literacy. She was committed to the idea that children who struggle to learn to read and write can be helped with early intervention, but her proposed solutions have proved controversial. A clinical psychologist, she developed the Reading Recovery intervention, a whole language programme in New Zealand, and expanded it worldwide.

*New Zealand academic, educator, researcher (1926-2007)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/marie-clay

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** New Zealand
- **Born:** 1926-01-03
- **Died:** 2007-04-13
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Dame Marie Mildred Clay was a researcher from New Zealand known for her work in educational literacy. She was committed to the idea that children who struggle to learn to read and write can be helped with early intervention, but her proposed solutions have proved controversial. A clinical psychologist, she developed the Reading Recovery intervention, a whole language programme in New Zealand, and expanded it worldwide.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 44.4 / 100
- **Momentum:** 1.6 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 4.6 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 30.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 55.0 / 100

## Timeline
- **2007** - Died
- **1997** - Herbison Lecture
- **1994** - Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
- **1993** - McKenzie Award
- **1986** - Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- **1926** - Born

## Sources
- [Marie Clay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Clay)
- [Marie Clay](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Clay)
- [ماري كلاي](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A)
- [مارى كلاى](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%89)
- [Marie Clay](https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Clay)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6762799)

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