Dr Jade Dignam
Research Fellow
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Affiliate of Queensland Aphasia Research Centre (QARC)
Queensland Aphasia Research Centre
Researcher biography
Dr Jade Dignam is a Research Fellow and Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist with the Queensland Aphasia Research Centre, with 17 years' experience in aphasia rehabilitation. Jade conducts research into post-stroke aphasia and has expertise in the development and evaluation of aphasia interventions, treatment dose, and determining predictors of treatment response. Jade's research aims to improve clinical outcomes for people with aphasia by increasing access to evidence-based, intensive comprehensive aphasia therapy.
Journal Articles
Dignam, Jade, Burfein, Penni, Campbell, Jessica, Coleman, Adele, Fraser, Caitlin, Halpin, Jessica, Hill, Annie, O'Brien, Kate, O'Neill, Emma, Roxas, Katherine, Short, Kylie, Shrubsole, Kirstine, Stuckey, Renee, Wedley, Hannah and Copland, David A. (2025). Clinical effectiveness of the comprehensive, high-dose aphasia treatment program for people with poststroke aphasia. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 68 (12), 5938-5949. doi: 10.1044/2025_jslhr-25-00336
Vuong, Genevieve, Dignam, Jade, Burns, Clare, Copland, David, Wedley, Hannah, O’Brien, Katherine and Hill, Annie J (2025). Feasibility of delivering TeleCHAT: A comprehensive high-dose aphasia treatment via telerehabilitation. Clinical Rehabilitation, 39 (12) 02692155251375667, 2692155251375667-1622. doi: 10.1177/02692155251375667
Levine, Rachel, Dignam, Jade, McSween, Marie-Pier, Hill, Annie, Copland, David and Shrubsole, Kirstine (2025). A "special ingredient": development of an intervention to implement structured and collaborative clinical planning processes for Comprehensive, High-dose Aphasia Treatment (CHAT). Disability and Rehabilitation, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-18. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2025.2536179
Harvey, Sam, Wilcox, Cassie, Bunker, Lisa, Dignam, Jade K., Dipper, Lucy, Hoover, Elizabeth, Kirmess, Melanie, Mohr, Bettina, Monnelly, Katie, Visch-Brink, Evy, Wallace, Sarah E. and Rose, Miranda L. (2025). Development of an evidence-based aphasia therapy implementation tool: introducing the Aphasia Therapy Finder. Aphasiology. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2025.2499521
Levine, Rachel, Dignam, Jade, Shrubsole, Kirstine, McSween, Marie‐Pier, Hill, Annie J. and Copland, David A. (2025). The core components of clinical planning for Comprehensive, High‐dose Aphasia Treatment (CHAT): a task analysis. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 60 (2) e70021, e70021. doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.70021
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. (2025). A modified intensive, comprehensive aphasia program (mICAP) has better reported outcomes than usual care: a randomized controlled trial. Aphasiology, 39 (10), 1341-1360. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2024.2424493
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 (2025). Implementation of the Comprehensive High-dose Aphasia Treatment (CHAT) program: “A different way of operating”. Aphasiology, 39 (1), 64-92. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2023.2287766
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, 39 (1), 93-124. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2024.2314328
Dignam, Jade, Rodriguez, Amy D., O'Brien, Kate, Burfein, Penni and Copland, David A. (2024). Early within therapy naming probes as a clinically-feasible predictor of anomia treatment response. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 34 (2), 196-219. doi: 10.1080/09602011.2023.2177312
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
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
Wedley, Hannah, Dignam, Jade, Shrubsole, Kirstine, Vuong, Genevieve, Copland, David and Hill, Annie (2025). Evaluating the acceptability of components of TeleCHAT when delivered in a clinical rehabilitation service: perspectives of people with aphasia. 2025 Smart Strokes Conference, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, 15-17 October 2025. Thousand Oaks, CA, United States: Sage Publications. doi: 10.1177/17474930251367150
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 Collections
Vuong, Genevieve, Hill, Annie, Dignam, Jade, Vuong, Genevieve and Burns, Clare (2025). Summary of Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Programs (ICAP) research until January 2025. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/c0e8bdf
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