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 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...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $304,935 to Luca AI, LLC is for the development of an innovative, technology-driven solution to enhance decoding ability and provide personalized reading support for individuals with dyslexia. The key products and services to be delivered under this 18-month project include: Building a grapheme-phoneme extension of the existing pronunciation dictionary to improve...
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 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $1,220,412 to the University of Connecticut (UConn) to conduct research on predictors of intervention outcomes for students with reading disabilities. The study aims to establish trajectories and predictors of reading gains in reading-disabled students attending learning disability schools...
The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Objective ED, Inc. on June 1, 2025. The grant, titled "FINANCIAL FITNESS ADVENTURES FOR STUDENTS WITH A VISION IMPAIRMENT," will fund the development of innovative educational technologies and interventions to improve learning outcomes for students with visual impairments. Objective ED, Inc. will create interactive software applications, games, and systems...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the Research in Special Education program (CFDA 84.324) provides $355,293 to Harvard University to develop and evaluate 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 for reading disabilities in grades 2-4. The...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.173), will fund research to assess real-time reading comprehension in bilingual individuals with aphasia. The $268,824 award, spanning July 2024 to December 2025, will support a series of eye-tracking experiments to measure the effects of semantic and lexical variables on sentence processing...