Project Grant HT94252410361

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders awarded Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Inc. $2,037,004 on February 3, 2026 to conduct longitudinal neuroimaging and language assessment research on autistic toddlers aged 18 to 36 months under the Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator R01 grant program (CFDA 93.310, Trans-NIH Research Support). The project, titled "GLOW: Gleaning Language Trajectories and Outcomes in Autistic Toddlers Using...

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders awarded Texas Christian University $1.590161 million on May 15, 2026, under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) to conduct a randomized controlled trial of Computer-Assisted Bilingual Vocabulary Intervention (CABVI) in emergent bilinguals with developmental language disorder. The project addresses a critical shortage of bilingual speech-language pathology services: over 45 million people...

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders awarded the University of Texas at Dallas $416,155 on September 1, 2026, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to investigate neural mechanisms supporting naturalistic dyadic interactions in young adults with developmental language disorder (DLD) using high-density diffuse optical tomography. The research examines interindividual neural synchronization in language networks...

This $2,308,368 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) supports research to investigate the relationship between visual attention, multimodal communication cues, and expressive language development in typically developing children and those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The research, led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center, will leverage existing datasets and conduct new...

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders awarded Georgetown University $695,903 in project grant funding on July 1, 2026, to investigate long-term language outcomes and neural plasticity following childhood stroke. The research examines how the brain reorganizes language functions after left-hemisphere strokes occurring in early childhood (ages 2–13). Georgetown will recruit 30 adolescents or young adults with childhood arterial ischemic stroke, 30 with...

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders awarded the University of Houston System $4,489,075 on March 5, 2026, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to establish a multidisciplinary clinical research center on developmental language disorders in linguistically and culturally diverse children. The research center will identify and estimate the prevalence of developmental language disorders and late talking in a...

The National Institutes of Health Office of the Director awarded the University of Cincinnati Sponsored Research Services Division $458,331 on August 1, 2026, under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) to characterize late talking in prematurely born children using neuroimaging and language sample analysis. The award funds re-analysis of extant data from 191 children born at 23–32 weeks gestational age, collected as part of an ongoing R01 study (R01DC018734) examining the effects...

This $511,527 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) aims to investigate the developmental trajectory of cerebral lateralization for language and visual-spatial abilities in children aged 5 to 11. The research team at The Johns Hopkins University will use behavioral testing and functional brain imaging to examine how brain activation patterns change over...

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded the University of Texas at Austin $151,040 on February 15, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to conduct research on how infants acquire action verbs from everyday contexts using cross-situational statistical learning. The project, titled "Infants Use Cross-Situational Statistics to Learn Action Verbs in Daily Contexts," addresses a gap in early language...

The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded The University of Texas at El Paso $291,204 on August 1, 2026, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to conduct experimental research on how shared book reading interactions support dual language and literacy skills in preschool-age children. The research team designed custom dual-language books that systematically vary language balance (the proportion of text in each...