Project Grant 01J21201

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the CFDA 47.084 Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program, aims to develop a large language model to improve communication between clinical researchers and participants in clinical trials. The goal is to optimize engagement and retention of participants, which can prevent trial failures. The $273,188 project will use cluster analysis of communications data from several...

This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $868,458 to the University of Texas at Austin to conduct a mixed-methods study characterizing the communication practices and language assessment experiences of Black caregivers of children identified as late talkers. The key objectives are to: (1) understand Black caregivers' conceptualization of effective communication and late talking, (2) describe their...

This federal Project Grant award of $743,412 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), will fund research to evaluate different parent-implemented naturalistic communication intervention (PI-NCI) modalities for improving language outcomes among children of parents with substance use disorders (SUD). The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) a...

This $242,170 federal Project Grant award, titled "PROJECT AACCESS: AACELERATING COMMUNICATION FOCUSED INTERVENTIONS IN EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS BY SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS", is funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services under the Special Education - Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities program (CFDA 84.325). The award supports Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), a...

This federal Project Grant award of $1,712,894 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), will fund research to establish the efficacy of listener training as a clinical intervention to improve intelligibility for people with Parkinson's disease (PD) and their communication partners. The project aims to: 1) examine immediate acquisition and retention of...

This $847,242 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (CFDA 84.324 - Research in Special Education) supports a research project titled "Partnership to Build Teacher Capacity to Promote Early Language Learning in Infants and Toddlers with and at Risk for Disabilities". The primary awardee, the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc., will collaborate with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to document the efficacy...

The Miami University was awarded an $861,208 Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to develop a psychometrically sound measure of adolescent social communication abilities tailored to transition intervention planning. The goal is to refine the Transition Pragmatics Interview (TPI) by designing items to vary in difficulty based on an empirically validated interpretive framework, the Situational-Discourse-Semantics...

This Project Grant award of $479,995 was made by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the CFDA program "Computer and Information Science and Engineering." The funding supports a collaborative research project between the University of Alabama and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, in partnership with learning scientists from SRI International. The goal of the project is to develop and test "Story Studio," a...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $588,631.00 to the University of Arizona to conduct research on communicative participation in adolescents with Down syndrome. The key objectives of this research project are to: 1) construct speech production profiles for adolescents with Down syndrome, 2) investigate how personal perspectives and...

This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Space Operations program (CFDA 43.007), aims to explore the viability of voice communication versus text-based "braiding" communication under low signal latencies representative of lunar missions. The $117,000 award, with a period of performance from October 1, 2024 to February 28, 2026, will involve a human-in-the-loop study to compare the effectiveness of voice versus...