This federal Project Grant award of $589,930.00, funded by 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 sex and gender differences in language impairment, disability, and service receipt. The primary goals are to determine why girls are less likely to receive language services compared to boys, and to examine the relationships between language...
The federal Project Grant award R01DC022081 in the amount of $602,895 was provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173). The objective of the grant is to conduct a comprehensive, multi-modal neuroimaging study to investigate the brain structural, functional, and neurochemical mechanisms underlying Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) in children aged 6-12 years....
This federal 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) supports a research project titled "Intergenerational Adversity Exposure and Language Acquisition". The $167,626 award, effective from September 3, 2024 to August 31, 2026, aims to: Determine the impact of adversity exposure on parent-child linguistic interactions, and Examine...
This Project Grant award for $722,677.00 was provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173). The project aims to improve the diagnosis and understanding of otitis media with effusion (OME) and its related hearing loss in children. Key objectives include: 1) developing a non-invasive objective estimate of hearing loss due to OME, 2) characterizing the short-term...
This 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), provides $144,795 to The House Institute Foundation to conduct research examining the effects of background noise on real-time speech processing in children with normal hearing and children using hearing aids. The research aims to investigate how speech-shaped noise and two-talker speech...
This 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), will support research to examine the impact of disfluencies on language processing and learning in monolingual and bilingual children with and without Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). The $181,827 award, with a project period from May 2024 to December 2026, will fund two eye-tracking...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under CFDA Program 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders", provides $726,359 in funding from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2030 to investigate factors that influence speech perception and functional hearing development in children. The key products and services to be delivered include: Evaluating children's speech recognition abilities using speech...
This federal Project Grant award of $696,836.00, granted by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders", will support research to study the neural basis of speech impairments in individuals with 16p11.2 deletion syndrome. The research aims to build a mechanistic understanding of the potential causes of speech deficits in this population and contrast them with speech impairments...
This Project Grant award for $583,125 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 fund a study to develop and assess a novel Speech Accessibility Index (SAI) that quantitatively evaluates children's access to language in real-world environments. The research will also examine the feasibility of using EEG to assess preschoolers' neurophysiological correlates of...
This $200,625 Project Grant was awarded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173). The award will fund a research study titled "Uncovering the Neural Mechanisms and Antecedent Factors of Listening Difficulty in Preterm Children." The study aims to investigate the neural mechanisms and clinical antecedents underlying listening difficulty in school-age...
This Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders totaling $127,244.81 was awarded on March 10, 2021 to Father Flanagan's Boys' Home to fund research related to prediction processes in children with developmental language disorder.
The award supports research aligned with the objectives of the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to investigate solutions to problems directly relevant to individuals with communication disorders. Specifically, the funding enables Father Flanagan's Boys' Home to conduct research exploring prediction processes in children with developmental language disorder, with the aim of advancing understanding of this condition and developing improved treatment approaches. The period of performance for the funded work extends from the award date through June 23, 2022.