Project Grant H326C080006

The U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services awarded a $203,304 Project Grant to Portland State University on September 1, 2024 under the Special Education - Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities (CFDA 84.325) program. The purpose of this 12-month project, titled "TOUCH-BASED O & M WITH DEAFBLIND TO AFFECT SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT (TODAS)", is to enhance the preparation of personnel...

This $440,000 federal Project Grant, 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), will support the development and pilot implementation of a manualized support group curriculum for families of children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). The project aims to engage the DLD community to design a curriculum that meets the informational and emotional needs of...

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 $433,438 to Miami University to study the attention-regulating strategies used by deaf and hearing parents of autistic children. The project aims to compare the modalities and strategies employed by deaf and hearing caregivers to obtain and maintain the visual attention of their...

The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), a program under the Administration for Community Living, awarded a $287,500 Project Grant to Objective ED, Inc., a for-profit educational technology company in Florida. The goals of this 2-year grant (6/1/2025 - 5/31/2027) are to develop a "Kids Like Me Bookshelf" (KLMB) system using generative AI to co-author inspiring role-model stories with adults who have vision impairments. This...

This Project Grant award of $435,875.00, provided by the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310), supports research to determine what information and resources parents and professionals in Pennsylvania need to support language acquisition in deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children. The research team at Temple University will first gather input from inexperienced parents and professionals currently...

This federal Project Grant award of $249,999.00 from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services under the Special Education - Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities program (CFDA 84.325) supports the University of Massachusetts Boston in preparing diverse personnel to provide related services in assistive technology for people with visual impairments. The award, effective from September 1, 2024 to...

The American Printing House For The Blind has been awarded a $10,000,000.00 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services under the Disability Innovation Fund (CFDA 84.421) program. The grant, titled "CIE & MONARCH EXPLORE, PREPARE, ENGAGE PROJECT", will support innovative activities aimed at improving employment, education, and transition outcomes for individuals with disabilities over a 5-year period from October 1,...

This $191,268 Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" (CFDA 93.173) program, will support Dr. Andrea Ford's research to adapt the ECHO model from the medical field for use in preschool education. The key objectives are to develop and deliver professional development for preschool educators to increase their use of neurodiversity-affirming...

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $498,968 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) federal grant program. The grant, titled "Deafness, Vocabulary Knowledge, and the Emergence of Reading Efficiency: Evidence from Eye-Tracking", will be conducted by the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) from September 2025 to August 2028. The project aims to assess the degree to which...

This Project Grant award of $415,717.00 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) federal grant program supports research to develop tools for assessing receptive language and learning abilities in children with cerebral palsy and severe speech and motor impairments. The goal is to enable better matching of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) system language...