Cooperative Agreement U24DC012078

This Cooperative Agreement award of $299,430.00 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the federal grant program "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" (CFDA 93.173), aims to build scientific capacity to accelerate the uptake of Dissemination and Implementation (D&I) research across NIDCD's mission areas, including hearing, balance, taste, smell, voice, speech, and language. The "Dissemination and...

This Project Grant award of $108,512 was provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the federal Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders grant program (CFDA 93.173). The grant supports research to understand how the brain's anatomical network structure and connectivity influence language production and recovery in individuals with post-stroke aphasia. The research utilizes Network Control Theory (NCT) to model brain regions...

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $162,448 Project Grant under the CFDA 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" program to the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The grant will fund a longitudinal study to evaluate neural speech tracking (NST) in full-term infants at 1, 6, and 12 months of age. The study aims to examine the developmental trajectory of NST and its relationship to hearing,...

This $647,518 Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) program, supports research investigating the impact of cochlear synaptopathy on brainstem mechanisms of monaural temporal processing and binaural hearing. The study aims to understand the neural mechanisms and loci in the auditory system that produce listening difficulties, which can emerge...

The Cooperative Agreement award of $336,748.00 from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.121) aims to develop and test a caregiver-implemented early speech and language intervention model for toddlers with non-syndromic cleft lip and/or palate (NSCL/P). The project will evaluate the effectiveness of the Caregiver-Implemented Enhanced Milieu Teaching with Phonological Emphasis (EMT+PE)...

This $947,128 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), is funding research to optimize voice therapy for individuals with hyperfunctional voice disorders. The primary goal is to enhance long-term communication outcomes by evaluating a novel non-hierarchical voice therapy approach called Conversation Training Therapy (CTT), which focuses...

This federal Project Grant award of $180,384.00 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) supports a pilot clinical trial to develop and evaluate a stutter-affirming therapy intervention for implementation in school settings. The principal investigator, Dr. Naomi Rodgers, an academic speech-language pathologist and assistant professor at the University of Iowa, will...

This federal Project Grant award of $265,410 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) supports research to characterize how heterogeneous regional expression of mechanoelectrical transduction (MET) channel components contributes to vestibular hair cell function and development, and whether early MET expression defines a critical period for gene replacement therapy....

The Ohio State University received a $670,525 Project Grant award on May 1, 2025 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173). The grant aims to develop objective tools for managing children with Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder (ANSD), an abnormal condition affecting the cochlear nerve. The key products and services to be delivered include: Establishing...

The federal Project Grant award of $439,916 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) program, is focused on "Breaking Barriers: Harnessing Implementation Mapping to Promote Caregiver Coaching in Early Intervention." The project aims to develop and test implementation strategies that address barriers to the widespread use of caregiver coaching in early...