Elizabeth C Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 5005331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth C Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth C |
| FAMILY NAME | Ward |
| SIGNATURE | WARD E C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Identifying areas for improvement in laryngectomy care: Insights from concept mapping with patients
Care for individuals with laryngectomy (IWL) is complex, requiring access to specialized multidisciplinary services along the full care continuum. However, evidence supports that challenges are experienced by some IWL accessing supportive care, with current care systems not addressing patients' postoperative and long-term needs, contributing to poor outcomes and increased patient and caregiver burden. This study explored perceptions of IWL about …
Service providers' perceptions of working in residential aged care: A qualitative cross-sectional analysis
A number of professional disciplines employed internally and externally provide services in Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACFs). Literature has long highlighted numerous workplace issues in RACFs, yet little progress has been made in addressing these. As such there has been a call for greater understanding of shared issues among service providers. The aim of the current study is to explore and compare the perceptions of a cross-section of se…
Speech Breathing Patterns During Tracheoesophageal Speech
Although tracheoesophageal speech (TES) uses pulmonary air to drive voice production, it was hypothesized that the speech breathing patterns of patients using TES would differ from normal speakers, as speakers compensated for the increased resistance associated with alaryngeal phonation and the effects of air loss from occasional incomplete stomal occlusion. Instrumental measurements of respiratory kinematics were used to study lung volume initia…
Perceptual judgements of tracheoesophageal speech: The issue of listener bias
This study examined whether listener familiarity influenced perceptual ratings of tracheoesophageal speech (TES) and whether the TES of laryngectomy and pharyngolaryngectomy patient is perceived as different by listeners of varying familiarity with alaryngeal communication. Samples of TES from 30 laryngectomy and 13 pharyngolaryngectomy patients were judged by three groups of listeners across the parameters of intelligibility, pleasantness, accep…
A study of the resolution of paediatric dysphagia following traumatic brain injury: Practical implications for clinicians
Despite the potentially life-threatening complications of dysphagia (Martin, Corlew, Woods, Olson and Golopol, 1994), and the recognized benefits of early and informed intervention in the acute care setting (Mackay, Bernstein, Chapman, Morgan & Milazzo, 1992), limited research exists on the acute phase or the resolution of swallowing impairment in children subsequent to traumatic brain injury (TBI) (Rowe, 1999; Ward and Morgan, in press). The cur…
Speech outcomes following brainstem tumour in childhood
The perceptual and physiological speech characteristics of two children treated for brainstem tumours were examined. The differential patterns of performance across the speech profiles of both subjects reflect the variability in severity of dysarthria evident in the brainstem tumour population. Each subject's results were compared with a non-neurologically impaired control group. The perceptual profiles were compiled from a perceptual speech anal…
Language performance in children treated for brainstem tumour: The impact of radiotherapy
Two female subjects aged between 10 and 12 years, 20 months post high-dose radiotherapy for a low-grade astrocytoma in the brainstem region, were found to have intact language abilities across a wide range of skills including higher-level language and literacy. Subjects were tested using a battery of standardised language assessments covering general receptive and expressive language abilities, confrontation naming, problem solving, complex reaso…
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Language performance in children treated for brainstem tumour: The impact of radiotherapy
Two female subjects aged between 10 and 12 years, 20 months post high-dose radiotherapy for a low-grade astrocytoma in the brainstem region, were found to have intact language abilities across a wide range of skills including higher-level language and literacy. Subjects were tested using a battery of standardised language assessments covering general receptive and expressive language abilities, confrontation naming, problem solving, complex reaso…
A study of the resolution of paediatric dysphagia following traumatic brain injury: Practical implications for clinicians
Despite the potentially life-threatening complications of dysphagia (Martin, Corlew, Woods, Olson and Golopol, 1994), and the recognized benefits of early and informed intervention in the acute care setting (Mackay, Bernstein, Chapman, Morgan & Milazzo, 1992), limited research exists on the acute phase or the resolution of swallowing impairment in children subsequent to traumatic brain injury (TBI) (Rowe, 1999; Ward and Morgan, in press). The cur…
Speech outcomes following brainstem tumour in childhood
The perceptual and physiological speech characteristics of two children treated for brainstem tumours were examined. The differential patterns of performance across the speech profiles of both subjects reflect the variability in severity of dysarthria evident in the brainstem tumour population. Each subject's results were compared with a non-neurologically impaired control group. The perceptual profiles were compiled from a perceptual speech anal…
Perceptual judgements of tracheoesophageal speech: The issue of listener bias
This study examined whether listener familiarity influenced perceptual ratings of tracheoesophageal speech (TES) and whether the TES of laryngectomy and pharyngolaryngectomy patient is perceived as different by listeners of varying familiarity with alaryngeal communication. Samples of TES from 30 laryngectomy and 13 pharyngolaryngectomy patients were judged by three groups of listeners across the parameters of intelligibility, pleasantness, accep…
Speech Breathing Patterns During Tracheoesophageal Speech
Although tracheoesophageal speech (TES) uses pulmonary air to drive voice production, it was hypothesized that the speech breathing patterns of patients using TES would differ from normal speakers, as speakers compensated for the increased resistance associated with alaryngeal phonation and the effects of air loss from occasional incomplete stomal occlusion. Instrumental measurements of respiratory kinematics were used to study lung volume initia…
Service providers' perceptions of working in residential aged care: A qualitative cross-sectional analysis
A number of professional disciplines employed internally and externally provide services in Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACFs). Literature has long highlighted numerous workplace issues in RACFs, yet little progress has been made in addressing these. As such there has been a call for greater understanding of shared issues among service providers. The aim of the current study is to explore and compare the perceptions of a cross-section of se…
Identifying areas for improvement in laryngectomy care: Insights from concept mapping with patients
Care for individuals with laryngectomy (IWL) is complex, requiring access to specialized multidisciplinary services along the full care continuum. However, evidence supports that challenges are experienced by some IWL accessing supportive care, with current care systems not addressing patients' postoperative and long-term needs, contributing to poor outcomes and increased patient and caregiver burden. This study explored perceptions of IWL about …
Medicine (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Audiology (4 works) · Voice and Speech Disorders (4 works) · Dysphagia Assessment and Management (3 works) · Perception (3 works) · Surgery (3 works) · Brainstem (2 works) · Internal Medicine (2 works) · Laryngectomy (2 works)