Jamie Azios

Jamie H. Azios, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is the Doris B. Hawthorne Endowed Chair in the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. 

She has published articles related to client-centeredness, communication access, functional outcomes of aphasia therapy, and friendship and aphasia.

We currently offer paid undergraduate and graduate research assistantships funded internally and externally through the NIH National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders (NIDCD).

Students in our research lab get first hand experience working with people with aphasia, a socially isolating communication disability that impacts a person's ability to use language but does not impact intelligence. Students will also learn basic research skills involving consenting people from vulnerable populations, transcription, and data collection and analysis.

The research lab is situated in close collaboration with the Aphasia Center of Acadiana, a 501(c)(3) organization that provides free speech therapy services for people with brain injury throughout Acadiana.

Dr. Azios's research interests include:

• Qualitative research methodologies
• Understanding perspectives of people living with communication disabilities
• Co-constructed conversation in aphasia
• The impact of communicative environments on social participation and inclusion
• Social inclusion
• Communication access
• Quality of life
• Social models of disability
• Relationship-centered care

• Azios, J. H., Lee, J. B., *Sigur, A., Archer, B., & Elman, R. J. (2024). Online aphasia groups: Navigating issues of voice and identity. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 33(1), 333-348.
• Archer, B., Azios, J. H., Douglas, N., Strong, K., Simmons-Mackie, N., & Worrall, L. (2024). “I could not talk…she did everything…she’s now my sister”: People with aphasia’s perspectives on friends who stuck around. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 33(1), 349-368.
• Azios, J. H., Lee, J. B., & Cherney, L. (2023). Conversation analysis of texting exchanges in aphasia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 32(5S), 2512-2527.
• Douglas, N., Archer, B., Azios, J. H., Strong, K., Simmons-Mackie, N., & Worrall, L. (2023). A scoping review of friendship intervention for older adults: Lessons for designing intervention for people with aphasia. Disability and Rehabilitation, 45(18), 3012-3031.
• Strong, K., Douglas, N., Johnson, B., Silverman, M., Azios, J. H., & Archer, B. (2023). Stakeholder-engaged research: What our friendship in aphasia team learned about processes. Topics in Language Disorders, 43(1), 19-29.
• Azios, J. H., Archer, B., Carragher, M., Simmons-Mackie, N., Raymer, S., *Shashikanth, S., & Gulick, E. (2022). Conversation as an outcome measure: A scoping review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 31(6), 2920-2942.
• Azios, J. H., Archer, B., & Lee, J. B. (2022). Understanding mechanisms of change after conversation-focused therapy in aphasia: A conversation analysis investigation. Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 13(2), 220-243.
• Azios, J. H., Strong, K., Archer, B., Douglas, N., Simmons-Mackie, N., & Worrall, L. (2022). Friendship matters: A research agenda for aphasia. Aphasiology, 36(3), 317-336.

• 2020 Friends of the Arts Innovation & Excellence Award
• 2019 Tavistock Trust for Aphasia Distinguished Scholar