Project Grant 90SFGE0081

This federal Project Grant award of $600,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education, and Support (CARES) Act Program (CFDA 93.877) will support the development of an updated version of the FitnessGram physical fitness test battery that is inclusive of students with autism and other developmental disabilities (autism/DD). The 3-year project, titled "The...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $681,469 to the University of Pittsburgh to conduct a mixed-methods study investigating the relationships between provider bias, experiences of ableism, and health outcomes for people with mobility disabilities. The project aims to prospectively assess the explicit and implicit disability biases of 40 rehabilitation...

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $154,880 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to the University of Colorado-Denver to study the effects of exercise on neurobiology, social cognition, and systemic inflammation in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The 2-year project aims to determine if a 10-week exercise intervention can 1) enhance brain response in default mode network regions during a...

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $328,524 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to the Regents of the University of Michigan. The funding will support a feasibility study evaluating a proactive physical therapy delivery model to increase and maintain physical activity and exercise behaviors in individuals with multiple sclerosis. The study involves a randomized controlled trial with 40...

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 National Institute on Aging's Aging Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.866) provides $616,809 to the University of South Carolina to optimize a remote-based physical activity intervention for adults with total knee replacement. The goal is to identify the optimal combination of intervention components, including 0-4 supplemental non-automated components, to increase physical activity levels in this population. The primary aim is to determine which...

This three-year $896,236 project grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Child Health and Human Development will fund research at the University of Nebraska at Omaha to determine biomechanical mechanisms that optimize walking rehabilitation for children and adolescents with cerebral palsy. The research will examine the effects of walking speed and environment (overground, dry treadmill, wet treadmill) on lower body kinematics and muscular demand. It will also link...

This Project Grant award from the National Cancer Institute (CFDA 93.394 - Cancer Detection and Diagnosis Research) provides $1,243,868 to San Diego State University Foundation to conduct a cluster randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of the "CONMIGO" multilevel physical activity intervention for pre-adolescent Latina girls and their mothers. The 5-year study aims to increase moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in the target population, evaluate individual and...

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 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...