Project Grant H6133904

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services awarded a $249,961 Project Grant to The Washington University's Office of Sponsored Research Services under the Special Education - Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities program (CFDA 84.325). This 12-month grant, titled "PROJECT HEAR: HELPING CHILDREN ACCESS EARLY-INTERVENTION AUDIOLOGY RESOURCES: TRAINING OF SPECIALIZED PEDIATRIC AUDIOLOGISTS (FOCUS...

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $308,712 Project Grant under the CFDA 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" program to Intelligent Hearing Systems Corp, a small business manufacturer located in Miami, Florida. The goal of this 1-year project, scheduled to run from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2026, is to develop an efficient automated Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) testing system that incorporates...

This Project Grant award of $670,525, provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders", aims to develop objective clinical tools for managing children with Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder (ANSD). The key objectives are to: 1) establish electrocochleography as a noninvasive method to evaluate cochlear nerve function, 2) validate onset cortical auditory evoked...

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $743,412 Project Grant (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) to the University of Oregon. The goal of this 5-year project is to evaluate the comparative effectiveness and implementation outcomes of different parent-implemented naturalistic communication intervention (PI-NCI) modalities for improving parent responsivity and child communication/language outcomes among...

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), aims to develop advanced diagnostic tools for hearing loss based on distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs). The $1,306,886 award to Northwestern University will fund three key objectives: 1) validating a new protocol for recording DP-grams to better detect mild-to-moderate hearing...

The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) awarded a $827,727 Project Grant under the Nursing Research program (CFDA 93.361) to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to develop and test an intervention program aimed at preventing noise-induced hearing loss among Native American adults. The 5-year project will evaluate the effectiveness of a peer-group discussion model and hearing protection training program delivered in partnership with a regional population at...

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $162,448 Project Grant under the CFDA 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" program to the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The grant will fund a longitudinal study to evaluate neural speech tracking (NST) in full-term infants at 1, 6, and 12 months of age. The study aims to examine the developmental trajectory of NST and its relationship to hearing,...

The New York State Department of Health received a $12.9 million formula grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services on July 1, 2021 to support early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities through September 30, 2022. The funding was provided under the Special Education-Grants for Infants and Families program (CFDA 84.181) to assist New York in maintaining its statewide system of early intervention...

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $295,840 project grant (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) to The House Institute Foundation in Los Angeles, California. The 3-year grant (Award ID: R21DC022555, 5/1/2025 - 4/30/2028) will fund research to examine the effects of background noise on real-time speech processing efficiency in school-age children with normal hearing and children using hearing aids. The study...

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 $767,494 to the University of Miami to develop human inner ear organoid platforms for studying genetic hearing loss and vestibular disorders. The key objectives are to: 1) establish and optimize human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived 3D inner ear organoid systems from patients with...