Dr Jade Dignam
Research Fellow
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Journal Articles
Worrall, Linda E., Rodriguez, Amy D., Dignam, Jade K., Hill, Anne J., Khan, Asaduzzaman, O’Connor, Denise A., Pattie, Moya, Ward, Elizabeth C., McKinnon, Eril, Allan, Renee and Copland, David A. (2024). A modified intensive, comprehensive aphasia program (mICAP) has better reported outcomes than usual care: a randomized controlled trial. Aphasiology, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-20. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2024.2424493
Vuong, Genevieve, Burns, Clare L., Dignam, Jade, Copland, David A., Wedley, Hannah and Hill, Annie J. (2024). Configuration of a telerehabilitation system to deliver a comprehensive aphasia therapy program via telerehabilitation (TeleCHAT): A human-centred design approach. Aphasiology, 1-32. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2024.2314328
Dignam, Jade K., Shrubsole, Kirstine, O’Brien, Kate, Bassett, Lynell, Burfein, Penni, Hickey, Natalie, Roxas, Katherine, Wedley, Hannah, Massoud, Nicole, Singh, Jasmina and Copland, David (2023). Implementation of the Comprehensive High-dose Aphasia Treatment (CHAT) program: “A different way of operating”. Aphasiology. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2023.2287766
Dignam, Jade K., Harvey, Sam, Monnelly, Katie, Dipper, Lucy, Hoover, Elizabeth, Kirmess, Melanie, Mohr, Bettina, Visch-Brink, Evy, Wallace, Sarah E. and Rose, Miranda L. (2023). Development of an evidence-based aphasia therapy implementation tool: an international survey of speech pathologists' access to and use of aphasia therapy resources. Aphasiology, 38 (6), 1-18. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2023.2253994
Harvey, Sam, Rose, Miranda L., Brogan, Emily, Pierce, John E., Godecke, Erin, Brownsett, Sonia L. E., Churilov, Leonid, Copland, David, Dickey, Michael Walsh, Dignam, Jade, Lannin, Natasha A., Nickels, Lyndsey, Bernhardt, Julie and Hayward, Kathryn S. (2023). Examining dose frameworks to improve aphasia rehabilitation research. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 104 (5), 830-838. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2022.12.002
Dignam, Jade, Rodriguez, Amy D., O'Brien, Kate, Burfein, Penni and Copland, David A. (2023). Early within therapy naming probes as a clinically-feasible predictor of anomia treatment response. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-24. doi: 10.1080/09602011.2023.2177312
Doogan, Catherine, Dignam, Jade, Copland, David and Leff, Alex (2018). Aphasia recovery: when, how and who to treat?. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, 18 (12) 90, 90. doi: 10.1007/s11910-018-0891-x
Dignam, Jade, Copland, David, O'Brien, Kate, Burfein, Penni, Khan, Asaduzzaman and Rodriguez, Amy D. (2017). Influence of cognitive ability on therapy outcomes for anomia in adults with chronic poststroke aphasia. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60 (2), 406-421. doi: 10.1044/2016_JSLHR-L-15-0384
Dignam, Jade, Copland, David, Rawlings, Alicia, O'Brien, Kate, Burfein, Penni and Rodriguez, Amy D. (2016). The relationship between novel word learning and anomia treatment success in adults with chronic aphasia. Neuropsychologia, 81, 186-197. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.12.026
Dignam, Jade K., Rodriguez, Amy D. and Copland, David A. (2015). Evidence for intensive aphasia therapy: consideration of theories from neuroscience and cognitive psychology. PM and R, 8 (3), 254-267. doi: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2015.06.010
Dignam, Jade, Copland, David, McKinnon, Eril, Burfein, Penni, O'Brien, Kate, Farrell, Anna and Rodriguez, Amy D. (2015). Intensive versus distributed aphasia therapy: a nonrandomized, parallel-group, dosage-controlled trial. Stroke, 46 (8), 2206-2211. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.115.009522
Conference Papers
Campbell, Jessica, Dignam, Jade, Hickey, Natalie, Bohan, Jaycie, Hersh, Deborah, Hill, Annie, Jamieson, Phill, Pierce, John, Power, Emma, Rose, Miranda, Shrubsole, Kirstine and Copland, David (2023). Maintaining language and quality of life gains with low-dose, technology-delivered aphasia therapy: preliminary results of the CHAT-maintain program. Stroke 2023 – The Combined Stroke Society of Australasia and Smart Strokes Nursing and Allied Health Scientific Meeting, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 22-25 August 2023. London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications.
Dignam, J., Copland, D., McKinnon, E., Burfein, P., O'Brien, K., Farrell, A. and Rodriguez, A. D. (2015). Intensive versus distributed aphasia therapy: A non-randomised, parallel-groups, dosage-controlled study. 26th ASM of the Stroke Society of Australasia and 11th Australasian Nursing and Allied Health Stroke Conference SMART STROKES, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 2-4 September 2015. Richmond, VIC Australia: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia. doi: 10.1111/ijs.12584
Dignam, J., Rodriguez, A., Burfein, P., OBrien, K., Worrall, L. and Copland, D. A. (2014). Investigating the role of intensity in a comprehensive, aphasia therapy program: A non-intensive trial of Aphasia LIFT. 25th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Stroke Society of Australasia, Hamilton Island, Australia, 30 July - 1 August 2014. Richmond, VIC Australia: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia. doi: 10.1111/ijs.12297
Data Collection
Dignam, Jade (2023). Early within therapy naming probes as a clinically-feasible predictor of anomia treatment response. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/1ae3b01