This $140,000 Project Grant award from the Administration for Community Living's (ACL) National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) program (CFDA 93.433) will support the development of "Augmented Reality Enhanced Supported Employment for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities". The project aims to improve employment outcomes for this population through the use of augmented reality technologies. Funded from...
The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), a program under the Administration for Community Living (ACL), awarded a $160,000 Project Grant (CFDA 93.433) to investigate novel home-based telerehabilitation systems integrated with rehabilitation robots for stroke survivors with upper limb dysfunctions. The award period is from Sep 1, 2023 to Aug 31, 2024. The project aims to develop and evaluate innovative rehabilitation technologies to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $174,999 to Gallaudet University to develop principled methods for studying and designing American Sign Language (ASL)-based intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) that enable deaf ASL users to interact with computers. The project aims to conduct experiments with deaf users to understand how well ASL-based IPA interfaces that recognize limited...
The federal Project Grant award of $100,000.00 from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) under CFDA 93.433 will support the development of an AI-based progress monitoring system for dyslexic students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). The award was made to Kidvokit, Inc., a woman-owned small business located in Newton, Massachusetts, with a project period from June 1, 2025 to November 30, 2025. The grant aims to enhance...
This $199,135 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) supports research to improve community living and participation among adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and their families. The project, led by Vanderbilt University, will run from September 2024 to August 2027. The key products and services to be delivered include developing innovative technologies, intervention protocols,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) provides $129,730 to Gallaudet University to create a sign language corpus that captures currently understudied characteristics of visual prosody. The project aims to develop a large corpus of sign language dialogues with annotations to promote data-driven research on the grammatical and emotional functions of visual prosody in sign languages. The...
The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) awarded a $160,000 Project Grant to Domestic Awardees (Undisclosed), a for-profit organization, for the project "PERSONALIZED BIOFEEDBACK AND PROSTHETIC INTERVENTION FOR LOCOMOTOR REHABILITATION OF PERSONS WITH LOWER LIMB AMPUTATION". The grant, which began on Sep 1, 2023 and is set to be completed by Aug 31, 2024, aims to support research and development focused on improving locomotor...
This federal Project Grant award for $400,000.00, awarded 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), will fund a research project to assess the experiences of LGBTQ+ people with disabilities using the National Survey on Health and Disability. The award, effective from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, will be managed by...
This federal Project Grant award from 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), provides $100,000.00 to Kairon Connect, PBC to develop emotional intelligence training tools that help people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) build social and emotional skills on social media that can transition to the real world. The award...
The federal Project Grant award of $399,930.00 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 will fund a 3-year project at Louisiana State University to support emergency preparedness in postsecondary transition programs for individuals with disabilities. The project aims to generate new knowledge,...