Project Grant H326T130002

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 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...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) program, part of the Administration for Community Living, will provide $287,500 over two years to support the development of innovative videoconferencing technologies to enhance experiences for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) sign language users. The key objectives are to: (1) collect and annotate at least 200 hours of sign language data and 100 hours of non-signing...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the Special Education - Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities program (CFDA 84.325) to Texas Tech University System. The grant, titled "PROJECT MAPVI: MULTICULTURALLY ADEPT PROFESSIONALS IN VISUAL IMPAIRMENT", will be used to develop a degree program and training initiatives aimed at preparing special education,...

This $277,741 federal Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (CFDA 84.325 - Special Education - Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities) was awarded to North Carolina Central University on September 1, 2024. The project, titled "TECHNOLOGY-INFUSED INSTRUCTION AND EVALUATION IN ORIENTATION & MOBILITY", aims to enhance the preparation of personnel who work with infants,...

The federal Project Grant award of $115,000.00 was issued by the Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services under the Rehabilitation Services Demonstration and Training Programs (CFDA 84.235). The grant was awarded to CAL State La University Auxiliary Services Inc. (UAS) on October 1, 2024 with a completion date of September 30, 2025. The award will fund a project titled "Culturally Responsive Experts Using AI to Enhance (Create!) Braille Literacy...

The Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services awarded $225,000 under the Rehabilitation Services Independent Living Services for Older Individuals Who are Blind federal grant program (CFDA 84.177) to the Maine Department of Labor's Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022. The funding will support the Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired in providing independent living services...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) provides $100,000 to 360 Empower Consulting, LLC to advance communication equity for the deaf community through AI sign language recognition and direct video calling solutions. The key products and services to be delivered include: A scalable direct video calling platform tailored for seamless native-language communication for the deaf community. An enhanced AI sign...

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...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services awarded The Ohio State University a $244,264 Project Grant under the "Special Education - Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities" program (CFDA 84.325) to support the "DIVE-IN TO O & M" project. The project aims to enhance the preparation of personnel who work with infants, toddlers, and children with disabilities, addressing...