Project Grant 90UCPH0057

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) provides $199,948 to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey to develop "My CTE Journey - A Digital Toolkit for Navigating Career and Technical Education" for individuals with severe mental health conditions. The project aims to transform current handbook resources into a digital toolkit with enhanced accessibility features, recruit 200-250 students...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program aims to develop recommendations for the design and evaluation of "responsive videos" that can be made more accessible by design. The $174,176 award to DePaul University will fund research to: 1) create a taxonomy of common audiovisual video components that need to adapt to variations in display sizes and modalities to ensure accessibility, 2) conduct...

This $749,685 National Science Foundation project grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) will fund the development of an Automated, Integrated, Multimodal Software (AIMS) system to improve inclusive access to information for persons with disabilities. Saint Louis University leads a consortium that includes software companies Vital, Unar Labs, and Viewplus Technologies to build a unified framework for authoring, converting, and delivering accessible content...

This $738,693 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) will develop and evaluate an online continuing education program for practicing obstetricians to address ableism and improve perinatal care for disabled patients. The project will conduct focus groups and interviews to identify essential content, then design and test the educational program through a randomized...

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...

The National Science Foundation awarded New York University a $618,490 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for work on "Disability Expertise and Design Justice for Post-COVID Equity." The two-year grant running from April 2021 through March 2023 will support NYU's efforts to advance equity and inclusion for people with disabilities in the post-pandemic environment through collaborative research and design projects. Leveraging the...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $274,144 provides funding for the "Disability Culture and Technology" project being conducted by Vanderbilt University from May 1, 2022 through April 30, 2023. The goal of the project is to document how disabled individuals use remote access technologies to form communities and shape society, both during and before the COVID-19 pandemic. The project will build an archive of oral histories, images, videos and other documentation...

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 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) provides $399,930 to Louisiana State University (LSU) to create an evidence-based, accessible emergency preparedness plan and implement emergency preparedness training within postsecondary transition programs for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) across Louisiana and the surrounding region. The key objectives are to identify challenges,...

This Project Grant award in the amount of $275,766 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA #93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) supports the development of a proof-of-concept for HealthYU-Latinx, a technology-based solution designed to improve health literacy for Latinx secondary school students and their families. The funding will enable the creation of a web/mobile-based, self-paced curriculum featuring animated videos, live...