This federal Project Grant award of $242,290, provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to develop a measure to assess the fidelity of neurodiversity-affirming interventions (NAIs) for autistic individuals. The goal is to leverage qualitative interviews with autistic individuals and caregivers to establish a pool of items indicating the...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $178,000.00 to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to design and validate a Pelizaeus Merzbacher Disease (PMD) severity scale. The goal is to develop a clinician-reported outcome measure that can be used to stratify PMD patients by disease severity, particularly early in the disease...
This federal Project Grant award of $205,048.00, awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research), will support research to optimize dimensions of reinforcement to enhance behavioral interventions for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) who engage in severe problem behaviors. The primary grantee, Auburn University, will lead the research project using a...
This federal Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will fund a $693,365 research project to evaluate the longer-term impacts of a medical-financial partnership (MFP) intervention delivered through pediatric care. The MFP intervention provides financial coaching to low-income families, with the goal of improving child developmental...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $425,955 to Oakland University to conduct research on using behavioral economics to mitigate relapse of problem behavior in individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). The key objectives of this 2-year project are to: 1) Establish a proxy response, apply treatment, and...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under CFDA Program 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, will fund a $718,848 study titled "BUILDING RELATIONSHIP, IMPROVING DIALOGUE, AND GROWING EMPATHY (BRIDGE): AN INTERVENTION TO SUPPORT DECISION-MAKING FOR CRITICALLY ILL CHILDREN". The 5-year study, starting August 1, 2025, aims to test the impact of the BRIDGE intervention on...
This $178,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) supports research to develop an early life phenotyping framework for very preterm infants. The research aims to create 'perinatal phenotypes' by integrating variables such as reason for preterm birth, intrapartum care, and neonatal presentation, and then determine how these phenotypes contribute to...
This Project Grant award, totaling $745,325.00, was provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The grant supports research to understand how caregiving networks influence health outcomes for children with neurologic impairment. Key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Conducting social network analysis surveys with 225...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under CFDA program 93.865 "Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research", provides $211,875 to New York University to validate a self-report measure of cognitive stimulation in the home, called the STIMQ2SR. The award will assess the psychometric properties, criterion-related validity, and alternate forms reliability of this measure, which will enable researchers and...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $431,750 to a collaborative research partnership between Henry Ford Health and Michigan State University Health Sciences. The funding will support a 2-year investigation into the neurobiological mechanisms underlying heterogeneity in social behavior development among young...