Winifred Mary Ward

Winifred Mary Ward FRCSLT (12 October 1884 – 10 June 1979) was a pioneering speech therapist.

Career

Her first career was as a singing teacher, but after World War I she was so affected by the plight of shell shock victims that she turned most of her attention to trying to help them.

She began working at the West London Hospital in Maida Vale and at Pembury in Kent, helping traumatised men to speak. She then began to take on students and eventually set up the London hospitals school of speech therapy (later called the Kingdon-Ward school of speech therapy).

She was a founder fellow of the College of Speech Therapists now the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.^[1] She wrote several books on the subject of speech therapy, as well as poems for children and poems specifically for use in teaching aspects of speech.

Personal life

Winifred was the sister of Francis Kingdon Ward. She never married, devoting her life to her work and to her brother. She was also known as Winifred Kingdon-Ward by association.

Select publications

• 1941. Stammering: a Contribution to the Study of its Problems and Treatment.
• 1954. A book of rhymes and jingles for children from four to fourteen, for the use of speech therapists and teachers of the spoken word. Black.
• 1969. Helping the stroke patient to speak. Churchill.

References

External links

• Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
• Site about history of speech therapy which mentions WKW