Project Grant H61MC09030

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...

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 fund research to advance the clinical utility of distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) for early and precise diagnosis of hearing loss. The $656,723 award to Northwestern University will focus on three key objectives over the 5-year project period beginning September 2024: 1)...

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), awarded a $308,712 Project Grant to Intelligent Hearing Systems Corp in Miami, Florida. The grant, with a period of performance from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2026, will support the development of an efficient, automated auditory brainstem response (ABR) testing system that incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize...

The Center for Public Health Innovation was awarded a $857,788 Project Grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs (CFDA 93.110). The award will fund a comprehensive effort to improve the efficiency, equity, and effectiveness of the Washington state newborn screening (NBS) program from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2028. The key objectives are to 1) enhance screening, education, specimen collection, and...

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

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $244,190 to the Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) to develop and pilot test a telehealth-based early intervention program called the Parent Infant Interaction Intervention (PIXI) for families of infants with rare neurogenetic conditions. The goals of the project are to: 1) identify participation facilitators 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 federal grant program (CFDA 93.173), will support a $194,375 research project to assess language access and neural language processing in preschool children who are deaf or hard of hearing (CDHH). The key objectives of the project are to: 1) Develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a novel Speech Accessibility Index...

This R21 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 investigate the neural mechanisms and clinical antecedents underlying listening difficulty in school-age children born very preterm. The $200,625 project, with an award date of July 1, 2024 and an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2027, will leverage an existing cohort of over 300 very...

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...

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" will support a research study on neural speech tracking (NST) in infants. The $162,448 award, effective December 1, 2024 through November 30, 2028, will fund a prospective longitudinal study to evaluate the developmental trajectory of NST and its relationship to hearing, environmental factors, and...