Project Grant 90SFGE0077

This Project Grant award of $150,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program aims to develop smart technologies for evaluating and enhancing building accessibility for people with disabilities, specifically those who use wheelchairs. The key activities include: 1) conducting a community meeting to understand the environmental experiences and stressors that wheelchair users face; 2) further developing the WHEELCOM V2 system...

The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), under the Administration for Community Living, awarded a $862,500 Project Grant to Neurotechr3 Inc. on September 1, 2024. The two-year project, titled "Improved Hand and Arm Function in Children with Cerebral Palsy through Increased Access to Affordable and User-Friendly Exergaming Technologies," aims to develop an innovative therapeutic exergame product called Rehabilitation Technologies...

This $199,587 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Disability Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) to The Ohio State University will be used to design a wheelchair servicing intervention by repair technicians based on real-world wheelchair usage data. The project aims to improve the lives of people with physical disabilities through better wheelchair maintenance and repair practices. The grant will fund the development of new technologies,...

This Project Grant award of $162,212 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD, CFDA 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) supports the "Cerebral Palsy Clinic to You: Using Human-Centered Design to Develop and Pilot an Online Health Tool for Adults with Cerebral Palsy" project. The goal is to leverage implementation science and human-centered design to adapt an existing online health tool for individuals...

This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $280,260 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to assess design tradeoffs in an orthosis with enhanced functionality and customizability. The project aims to improve upon a variable stiffness orthosis (VSO) design by incorporating a unique cam-based transmission that...

This $100,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) supports the development of innovative exoskeleton technologies as next-generation alternatives to traditional ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs) for adolescents with Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease. The awardee, Results Group, LLC, is a small disadvantaged business focused on advanced assistive technologies and rehabilitation devices. Through this grant,...

This $750,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will fund the development of appropriate rehabilitation technology for stroke survivors through passive tactile stimulation. The Leland Stanford Junior University will lead an interdisciplinary team including universities, hospitals, and community organizations to finalize the team composition, generate use cases, and develop a comprehensive research plan including initial...

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a 2-year, $458,397 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. The funding will support research to characterize head control impairments in individuals with severe Cerebral Palsy (CP) and test the feasibility of a multi-session motor training program using a robotic neck brace to promote postural...

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $295,907 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to Liberating Technologies Inc. (LTI) to develop a prototype "Unintrusive Pediatric Logging Orthosis Analytic Device (UPLOAD)." The goal is to create a commercially viable, unobtrusive remote monitoring system for pediatric orthotics that can improve compliance tracking. Key features include long battery life, low...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will fund the development and commercialization of the Fast In-Bed Tracking (FIT) platform. FIT is an e-health and wellness Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring system that can be integrated into a user's bed to provide real-world outcomes supporting the health and wellness of wheelchair users. The $987,365...