Career
She was one of the founders of modern speech therapy. She was also known as Winifred Kingdon-Ward by association. 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 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.
Publications This is by no means a complete list
"Stammering. A Contribution to the Study of its Problems and Treatment" 1941 (?)
"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 1954
"Helping the stroke patient to speak." Churchill 1969.
Also Margaret Eldridge, 1968 "A history of the treatment of speech disorders" for more on Winnifred Kingdon-Ward"s pioneering career in London.