The federal Project Grant award R01DC022081, funded 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 provide $1,204,102 from April 10, 2025 to March 31, 2030 to Father Flanagan's Boys' Home in Boys Town, Nebraska. The funding will support a comprehensive research project to investigate brain structural, functional, neurochemical, and myelination properties in the...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the federal Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), will fund research to examine the effect of code-switching on implicit word learning in bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder (DLD). The $117,912 award, with a performance period from December 15, 2025 to May 31, 2028, will be used to conduct two studies that test...
This Project Grant award of $192,289 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 determine the impact of modeling verbal mediation on shifting task performance in school-aged children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). The key objectives are to: 1) Examine the effect of modeling verbal mediation on the subsequent use of verbal mediation by children...
This federal Project Grant award of $589,930, provided by 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 investigate sex and gender differences in language impairment, disability, and service receipt. The primary goal is to determine why girls are less likely to receive language services than boys, which aligns with NIH's interest in diversity and the NIDCD's focus on...
The federal Project Grant award of $227,211 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under CFDA program 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders", will fund research to investigate the neurocomputational mechanisms underlying speech sensorimotor adaptation. The project aims to translate a behavioral paradigm known to uncover multiple learning processes across motor domains to the speech domain, and to assess the neural...
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 support research on emotion regulation in children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). The $244,154 award to the University of South Carolina will be used to evaluate self-report, behavioral, and physiological indicators of emotion regulation in children with DLD during linguistically...
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) seeks to develop a complexity model of aphasia. The $466,746 award, effective from Sep 24, 2024 to Aug 31, 2026, will be used to investigate the interplay between aphasia impairment variables (e.g., language comprehension, naming ability) and life participation variables (e.g., mental health,...
This $726,359 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) supports research into the factors influencing speech perception and functional hearing in children. The project aims to: 1) evaluate how children's speech recognition is affected by natural speech conditions like unfamiliar accents, conversational speech, and child talkers; 2) assess...
This federal Project Grant award of $477,660 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) supports research to investigate age-related brain differences that affect speech recognition in older adults. The primary objectives are to characterize how quickly older adults accumulate sensory evidence and how much evidence they require to make speech recognition decisions, and to link these perceptual...
This federal Project Grant award of $681,385 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 and test a neurocomputational model that can reliably characterize the speech motor skillsets of individuals, including those with communication disorders such as stuttering and dyslexia. The research, to be conducted by Trustees of Boston University, involves a tight...
This $1,901,475 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) will fund two randomized clinical trials to test new treatments for improving complex sentence comprehension and use in children with developmental language disorder (DLD). The research will compare explicit rule-based and implicit learning approaches to treating passive sentences and sentences with relative clauses, with the goal of determining the most effective methods for building automatic, generative knowledge of complex syntax in this population. Sub-awards totaling $600,000 will support the participation of researchers at Utah State University and the University of Arizona in conducting the clinical trials, including recruitment, assessment, intervention, data management, and analysis. The grant award period runs from August 1, 2024 to April 30, 2029.