J.B. Orange is Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Research Professor in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Western University at London Canada. He also is the former Scientific Director of the Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging at Western University.

He currently conducts collaborative analyses on several large datasets from provincially and nationally funded studies. Examples of the studies include the Ontario Neurodegenerative Research Initiative (ONDRI), the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA) funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, and the SuperAgers Study funded by the National Institutes of Health from the USA

Professor Orange’s peer-reviewed publications and funded research address language and cognitive-communication disorders of adults and older adults. His research has a special emphasis on discourse, conversation and communication of individuals living with various types of neurodegenerative diseases.