Winifred Mary Ward FRCSLT (12 October 1884 – 26 January 1979) was a pioneering British speech therapist.
[1] 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 left the West End Hospital school in 1935 to spend time in South Africa.
When she returned to London in the late 1930s she was unable to resume her old post and took steps to set up a different course in conjunction with a former student, Amy Swallow.