Project Grant 19194943224

This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $489,500 to The Children's Hospital Corporation (doing business as Boston Children's Hospital) to conduct research on identifying early neurobiological markers and developmental factors that impact language acquisition in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The research aims to (1) characterize resting state EEG differences...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) provides $410,651 over 3 years to New York University (NYU) to investigate the temporal structure of infant behaviors, including vocalizations, play, and language interactions within home environments. The project aims to describe the unfolding of these behaviors over time, test associations between infant and maternal vocal...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) is funding a project grant totaling $620,013 awarded July 1, 2026, through April 30, 2031, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). Led by the University of California Irvine, the project titled "Long-Term Benefits of Baby Books on Parenting and Child Outcomes in Middle Childhood" (BB2-MC) will evaluate the sustained effects of an...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded Young TECH Solutions LLC a Project Grant of $313,354 under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) for the period of July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027. The award funds development of Young Speaker, an iOS-compatible software platform designed to support communication development in minimally verbal children with Autism Spectrum Disorder...

This National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences award, funded under the federal Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.075), supports a collaborative research project titled "The Temporal Structure of Infants' Everyday Behaviors: Language and Play Interactions in the Home Environment." The $145,840 project, awarded to the University of Oregon on September 1, 2023 with a completion date of August 31, 2026, investigates how the...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director awarded $448,335 to the Regents of the University of Minnesota under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) to develop predictive screening tools for identifying late talkers among infants at elevated familial risk for autism. The research leverages the Baby Sibling Research Consortium database—the largest collection of language development data for infants who develop autism—to...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant of $275,000 to Calis Books Inc. under the NSF SBIR Phase I program (CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships) to develop an innovative, screenless, interactive educational device for early childhood learning. The device will integrate technology into a traditional book format, enabling audio content to be played when the pages are pressed. The project aims to create a mixed-media interactive platform that delivers...

Summary The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a Project Grant totaling $527,648 to The Trustees of The Smith College on March 18, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). This three-year research initiative, which extends through February 28, 2029, investigates how parental engagement styles influence the neurodevelopmental underpinnings of executive function in children. The...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), provides $700,000 to the University of Tennessee from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025. The grant supports research examining how infants process intersensory information and make sense of their environment. Specifically, the project will use measures of heart rate, electroencephalography, and computational...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $2,357,335 to study neuronal dysfunction in Down syndrome (DS) and its link to Alzheimer's disease (AD). The key products and services delivered under this award include: Utilizing induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived cortical organoids and assembloids to examine the cellular, transcriptomic, and motility-related...