Javad Anjum

Javad Anjum is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education at the University of Georgia. He worked as a physician in India and pursued clinical research in Neurophysiology at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences. He then completed an MEd in Educational Research and Evaluation and a PhD in Speech-Language Science, both from the Ohio University. Javad also holds a Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Javad’s overarching research agenda is to enhance cognitive and communication outcomes for people touched by aphasia and related conditions. He approaches this work through three interconnected lines of inquiry: (1) examining cognitive and lexical-semantic mechanisms underlying language performance in people with and without aphasia; (2) advancing equitable and person-centered neurorehabilitation models for multilingual people with aphasia and other neurogenic cognitive-communication disorders; and (3) developing interdisciplinary training programs for improving clinical service delivery for people with aphasia and older adults experiencing cognitive decline. Javad’s Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) interests explore the use of active learning and experiential pedagogical approaches to train future speech-language pathologists and audiologists. Javad is currently accepting doctoral students. Interested candidates may reach out to him via email.