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Jane Beasley Raph (May 31, 1917-September 4, 2000) was a professor of early childhood education at Rutgers University. She collaborated with Dr. Ollie Backus in publishing pioneering work in parent counseling, group therapy, and the use of homogeneous grouping in treating children with various communication disorders.

Personal life
Raph was the second child of Elizabethe Margarethe Wilhelmine Bremser and Johnson Tucker Beasley. A brother, Robert, born in 1914 when her mother was 16, died after four days. She had a twin sister, Ruth, who died of the flu during the 1918 flu epidemic. Another sister, Betty was born in 1920. Betty was a blue baby with an untreatable defective heart valve. Her mother Elizabeth was pregnant with their fifth child in December 1925 when Betty died. The last child, Annabeth, was born on July 16, 1926 in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1930, her parents separated—again—after her father forced her mother to agree to a second loan on the mortgage.

Unable to pay the two mortgages, Elizabeth rented the house in Kansas City, and moved home to Norwalk, Ohio, to live with her parents, Margaret and Henry Bremser, whose home she had left at age 14. Elizabeth worked first as a housekeeper for her aunt Minnie Klein. In 1931, when Annabeth was in first grade, the family moved across Norwalk to live with their cousins, the Butlers.

In 1933, they moved again to Des Moines, Iowa to live with the McDonalds. Many, frequent moves followed. In 1934, during the depths of the Depression, Annabeth's mother Elizabeth worked in a cafeteria. She was unable to care for Annabeth, and Annabeth spent the summer in a children's home. Jane, with the help of Gramma Bina Klein Bremser, was a freshman at Drake University, where she worked in exchange for room and board. Elizabeth and Jane got a room in a neighbor's, the Penniwells. Elizabeth worked in a sorority home.

By some Depression miracle, the school sent two students to represent the Club at the World's Fair in Chicago. Jane was one of them. This was a 2 1/2 day bus trip all expenses paid for a week. Housing and classes were on the Northwestern campus. Treks to the Fair filled the afternoon and evenings of these awed teens. An eight-acre Hall of Science portrayed the progress of civilization for the past hundred years A Century of Progress. Heady stuff.

As a high school Norwalk Ohio living with G&G Bremser on Elm St. Freshman dumps her books in the large attic bedroom she shares with her mother and sister.

During the summer of 1943, Jane worked in a glider factory. She could never forget the penetrating smell of the glue. On 2 May 1944, Jane married Art Budden Jr. and they divorced on 23 Apr 1946.

She married Theodore E. Raph in on 28 December 1957 at Temple Emanu-El in New York.

Education
Beasley attended Bowling Green State University and graduated with a bachelors degree in elementary education in 1940. She attended the University of Michigan from which she received a masters degree in speech pathology in 1945. She obtained a Ed.D in Child Developmental Psychology in 1955 from Columbia University's Teachers College. She later completed a post-doctoral study in Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University and New York University, New York City.

Academic career
Beasley was a public school speech clinician in Grosse Point, Michigan from 1936 to 1944. She then moved to university clinics, serving as a clinical instructor at the University of Michigan from 1946 to 1948, a clinical instructor at Ohio University from 1949 to 1950, an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama from 1951 to 1953, where she worked with Ollie Backus. During her doctoral program at Teachers College, Columbia University she served as a research associate. While at the Ohio University in 1950, she established a residential children's program Speech and Hearing Clinic of the University of Alabama.

Raph was well known among her peers for her work with Ollie Backus on a conversational group approach to working with children with language disorders. Her book, co-authored with Backus, was frequently cited and contrasted with more individualized drill-based therapies. "Dr. Backus was nationally and internationally known for her pioneering work in parent counseling, group therapy, and the use of homogeneous grouping in treating children with various communication disorders. The "Backus and Beasley Text" in speech-language pathology was one of the best known and widely used texts in the field for more than two decades."

She helped establish Head Start programs in South Carolina and Alabama. She taught from 1957 to 1976 in the Graduate School of Education, Department of Psychological Foundations, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

She co-authored "Piaget in the Classroom" in 1973 with Milton Schwebel, dean of the Graduate School of Education, that was widely cited by academics.

She was appointed a professor at Rutgers in 1957 and a research associate in the Department of Psychiatry at New York University's School of Medicine from 1963 to 1966. In 1962 she was became a Fellow of the American Speech and Hearing Association. She taught at Rutgers University for over 25 years. After her retirement to Arizona, she continued to work in the early childhood education programs at the University of Arizona and in the local school districts.

Publications

 * Raph, J.B, and Milton Schwebel eds. (1973) Piaget in the Classroom, New York, Basic Books ISBN 0465057519 305 pages.
 * Beasley, J. (1949). Techniques of therapy for preschool children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 14, 307-311.
 * Beasley, J. (1951). Group therapy in the field of speech correction. Exceptional Children, 17, 102-107.
 * Beasley, J. (1951). Development of social skills as an instrument in speech therapy. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 16, 241-245.


 * Backus, O., & Beasley, J. (1951). Speech therapy with children NY: Houghton Mifflin.


 * Beasley, J. (1956). Slow to talk; a guide for teachers and parents of children with delayed language development New York: Teachers College, Columbia University.


 * Beasley, J. (1960). Determinants of motivation in speech therapy Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 25, 13-17. (McClelland's theory).


 * Raph, J. B. (1960). The relationship of psychological development to linguistic behavior in the middle years of childhood. In D. Barbara (Ed.), Psychological and psychiatric aspects of speech and hearing (pp. 69-89). Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, Publisher.


 * Raph, J.B. (1965) Language Research Study, Project Head Start. Development of Methodology for Obtaining and Analyzing Spontaneous Verbalizations Used by Pre-Kindergarten Children in Selected Head Star Programs—A Pilot Study. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers, The State University


 * Raph, J.B. (1965) Language Development in Socially Disadvantaged Children Vol. 35, No. 5, Education for Socially Disadvantaged Children, pp. 389-400 American Educational Research Association


 * Raph, J.B. (1965) Chapter II: Language Development in Socially Disadvantaged Children Review of Educational Research 35, 5, 389–400


 * Raph, J., Goldbert, M., Passow, H. (1966) Bright Underachievers: Studies of Scholastic Underachievement Among Intellectually Superior High School Students NY: Teachers College Press.


 * Raph, J.B. et. al. (1968) The influence of nursery school on social interactions American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 38, 1, 144–152


 * Raph, J. (1967). Language and speech deficits in culturally disadvantaged children: Implications for the speech clinician'' Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 32, 203-214.


 * Raph, J. B. (1969) Review of A guide to reading Piaget. 137.


 * Raph, J. B. (1971) Influences of a Piaget-Oriented Curriculum on Intellectual Functioning of Lower-Class Kindergarten Children Rutgers, The State University, New Brunswick, N.J. Graduate School of Education. 22 p. (Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, New York)


 * Schwebel, M. and Jane Raph. (1973). Before and beyond the three R's In M. Schwebel & J. Raph (eds.) Piaget in the classroom (pp. 3-32). NY: Basic Books.


 * Schwebel, M. and Jane Raph. (1973). The developing teacher In M. Schwebel & J. Raph (eds.) Piaget in the classroom (pp. 278-292). NY: Basic Books.


 * Raph, J. B. and Betty Hart. (1978) Piaget-Based Evaluation and Education of Young, Developmentally Delayed Children.


 * Raph, J.B. (1980). Forward to basics. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 6, 3, 281-286.