Dr. Tamiko Azuma serves as Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Arizona State University (ASU) and is an Associate Professor of Speech and Hearing Science. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology (focusing on cognitive psychology) and subsequently completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Arizona’s National Center for Neurogenic Communication Disorders before starting a faculty position in the Speech and Hearing Science program at ASU.  Dr. Azuma is currently an Editor for the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 

Dr. Azuma’s research centers on how attention, executive function, memory, and language processing are affected by healthy aging, dementia, traumatic brain injury, and other neurological conditions. In addition to basic research on working memory and language processing, her team focuses on cognitive processing in individuals with acquired neurological disorders, specifically mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI).  They are particularly interested in the assessment of military veterans and bilinguals because there is limited research on the impact and longer-term consequences of mTBI in those populations. These research findings support evidence-based clinical practice, including developing appropriate assessments and therapies for bilingual and veteran clients.