This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) will develop and use probes to measure communicative feedback in racially and ethnically diverse autistic adolescents who are minimally verbal or have language impairment. The $314,152 award, valid from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027, will recruit 24 diverse multi-stakeholder experts, 70 diverse...
This $433,438 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), aims to study the attention-regulating strategies used by deaf and hearing parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The project objectives are to: 1) determine if deaf caregivers differ from hearing caregivers in the modalities and strategies employed to obtain and...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), provides $201,250.00 to Duke University to conduct research examining precursors to language impairment in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The project aims to leverage recent advances in remote assessment and computer vision technology to study three proposed mechanisms underlying...
This federal Project Grant award for $1,339,013.47, awarded on August 23, 2024 by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), will fund the "EMERGE: Early Markers of Expressive and Receptive (Language) Growth in Ethnically Diverse Autistic Toddlers" research project under the NIDCD's Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173). The project aims to investigate language development in 132 autistic toddlers aged 18-30...
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), aims to develop a sensitive, quantitative metric of vocal communication for minimally-speaking individuals. The $270,520 award, with a period of performance from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2029, will fund research by Northeastern University to enroll 90 individuals (ages 6-35) with fewer...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), is focused on investigating the mechanistic underpinnings of pragmatic language impairments in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The award of $160,000 will fund a 2-year research project at Northwestern University to characterize the relationship between motor-speech skills, pragmatic language...
This federal Project Grant award of $74,853 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), aims to investigate how multimodal cues in infant-directed speech and song affect visual attention and language development in typically developing (TD) children and children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The key products and services to be delivered under this award include:...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant (R21) to Northwestern University to advance the understanding of brain mechanisms contributing to speech processing differences and related social communication difficulties observed in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The project, titled "The Role of Context in the Neural Processing of Speech in Autism Spectrum Disorder," will use innovative electroencephalography (EEG)...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the federal Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), provides $207,036 to the University of Houston System to conduct research on using speech entrainment to predict conversational outcomes in autistic adolescents. The research aims to gain a comprehensive understanding of speech entrainment patterns in autistic adolescents and their...
This Project Grant award for $428,054 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Federal Grant Program "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" (CFDA 93.173), will fund a study on deaf preschoolers' exploratory behaviors and parental guidance during shared museum experiences. The research aims to uncover relationships between motor exploratory behaviors and learning outcomes in deaf and hearing children whose parents...