Project Grant 90BISA0074

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living, through the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) has awarded a $287,500 Project Grant to Objective ED, Inc. to develop the "Kids Like Me Bookshelf" - an interactive fiction story system designed to improve self-determination skills for students with vision impairments. The project will leverage generative AI to co-create role-model stories...

This federal Project Grant award of $100,000.00 was provided by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) under the ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research program (CFDA 93.433). The award, with a period of performance from June 1, 2025 to November 30, 2025, supports Objective ED, Inc.'s development of "BuddyBooks with Collaborative Strategic Reading for Students with Autism". This...

This $276,000 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships grant funds Objective ED, Inc. to develop a computer-based co-reading prototype for students with reading disabilities. The prototype will use cloud infrastructure and a user application to perform co-reading with students, validating reading accuracy and offering remediation for mistakes. It will allow teachers to customize lessons and monitor student progress using engaging book content. Data captured will...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded a $498,638 National Leadership Grant to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct participatory design research promoting computational thinking skills for blind and visually impaired teens through accessible library makerspaces. Over a three-year period ending May 2025, the University will partner with organizations including the American Printing House for the Blind and local libraries to train professionals in makerspace...

This federal Project Grant award of $249,999.00 from 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) supports the University of Massachusetts Boston in preparing diverse personnel to provide related services in assistive technology for people with visual impairments. The award, effective from September 1, 2024 to...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Objective ED, Inc. to develop a computer-based co-reading system for students with reading disabilities. This SBIR Phase II project will produce a cloud-based system that students can use at home or school to improve their oral reading through personalized feedback, customizations by teachers, and audio capture capabilities. The...

The University of Massachusetts Boston was awarded a $250,000 federal Project Grant from 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 grant, titled "A NEW VISION FORWARD: THE DIVERSE PERSONNEL PREPARATION FOR TEACHER OF STUDENTS WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS", will support the development of degree...

The National Eye Institute (NEI), through its Vision Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.867), awarded a $2,367,661 Project Grant to Texas Tech University System. The funding period runs from September 1, 2024 to April 30, 2029. The grant aims to extend previous research by recruiting a large, diverse sample of over 500 children who are blind or visually impaired (CBVI) across the United States. The project will obtain detailed measures of both distal (interpersonal discrimination,...

The National Science Foundation awarded a 5-year, $481,175 CAREER grant under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program to the Board of Trustees of Illinois State University to improve the accessibility of technology-mediated high school science education for blind and low-vision students. The project aims to: (1) investigate teachers' knowledge about creating "born accessible" technology-mediated science classes, and (2) develop opportunities for pre- and...

The Children's Museum of the East End (CMEE) received a $157,920 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to expand their Estrellas de Lectura/Reading Stars program. This reading mentorship initiative aims to improve social-emotional learning skills and restore reading fluency in bilingual children disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 learning loss. The grant will fund activities such as community engagement, mentor...