Project Grant 90BISA0077

The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), a program under the Administration for Community Living, awarded a $287,500 Project Grant to Charmtech Labs LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Buffalo, New York. The grant, titled "Addressing Reading Disparities for Students with Disabilities by Building Background and Vocabulary Knowledge," runs from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2027. Charmtech Labs will use the funding...

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...

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...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $509,388 to Arizona State University to develop and study approaches for equipping 4th and 5th grade general and special education teachers with effective instructional strategies to teach computer science (CS) to students with disabilities. The project aims to improve accessibility, accommodations, and the role of paraeducators to increase participation and learning in...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $318,850 will fund research at the University of California, Los Angeles from May 2022 to April 2025 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The research aims to improve speech technology and develop automated oral literacy assessments to better support learning outcomes for young African American English-speaking children. Specifically, the university researchers will develop data augmentation and...

This Project Grant award of $355,293.00 was provided by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), part of the U.S. Department of Education, under the Research in Special Education (CFDA 84.324) federal grant program. The award supports the development and evaluation of a narrative language and reading comprehension intervention called "Guided, Explicit Teaching of Oral Narratives to Improve Narrative Text Comprehension (GET ON IT!)" for emergent bilingual students with or at risk...

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $1,272,902 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to the University of South Carolina. The purpose of this 5-year project is to develop assessment protocols that reliably identify language and reading disorders among Spanish-English bilingual students in kindergarten through 2nd grade. Specifically, the project aims to: 1) develop an empirically-derived...

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...

This federal Project Grant award of $724,148 from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305) will support a research study to evaluate the impact of implementing the First-Grade Reading Peer Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS FG) program in kindergarten classrooms. The study, conducted by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) in partnership with the University of Texas Rio...

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...