This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $489,500 to The Children's Hospital Corporation (doing business as Boston Children's Hospital) to conduct research on identifying early neurobiological markers and developmental factors that impact language acquisition in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The research aims to (1) characterize resting state EEG differences...
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 support research to examine precursors to language impairment in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The $201,250 award to Duke University aims to leverage recent advances in remote cognitive assessment of infants to better understand the underlying mechanisms of language...
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 $168,722 to the University of California, Davis to examine transdiagnostic mechanisms of language development in infants at elevated likelihood for autism and ADHD. The research will leverage a longitudinal sample of 163 infants to investigate trajectories of "absent reference" - a...
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 $1,339,013.47 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for the "EMERGE: Early Markers of Expressive and Receptive (Language) Growth in Ethnically Diverse Autistic Toddlers" study. This 5-year project, starting August 2024, aims to deeply phenotype 132 18-month-old autistic toddlers with...
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), provides $433,438 to Miami University to study the attention-regulating strategies used by deaf and hearing parents of autistic children. The project aims to compare the modalities and strategies employed by deaf and hearing caregivers to obtain and maintain the visual attention of their...
This $1,416,226 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) will fund a research project at Northwestern University to define the female pragmatic language profile of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and the broad autism phenotype. The key objectives are to: 1) Characterize the pragmatic language profile of females with ASD and related neurocognitive and psychosocial outcomes,...
This Project Grant award in the amount of $437,479 was provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310). The grant will be used by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to leverage a large, longitudinal dataset of 1,667 toddlers, including 552 late talkers, to identify early predictors of divergent language and clinical outcomes at preschool age. The key objectives are to: 1) Analyze 9 common predictors...
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), provides $196,143.00 to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to examine the feasibility of using eye-tracking technology as an implicit measure of word understanding in autistic children who are minimally verbal or non-speaking. The study aims to (1) evaluate the...
This $160,000 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 support research by Northwestern University to investigate the mechanistic underpinnings of pragmatic language impairments in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and FMR1 mutation conditions. The research aims to characterize the motor-speech skills contributing to pragmatic...
This federal Project Grant award of $710,632 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 identify and distinguish early indicators of autism in Latino children. The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) is the primary grantee and will lead a research study to: 1) identify and distinguish Latino children's language and communication profiles, 2) assess the...
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 cross-sectional studies to quantify how infants' visual attention, particularly looking at a speaker's mouth, during infant-directed speech and song relates to expressive language outcomes. The project aims to identify key mechanisms by which multimodal cues in communicative contexts support language development in different populations, inform targets for language interventions, and determine optimal developmental windows for delivering such interventions for autistic children. Emory University is a sub-awardee on the project, leveraging its expertise in biomedical research and animal model development.