The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $196,109 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) federal grant program to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. The project, titled "Understanding How Caregivers Shape Reciprocal Communication with Nonspeaking Autistic Children", aims to investigate how common caregiver interaction strategies influence moment-to-moment changes in...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $726,359 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) program to Father Flanagan's Boys' Home, a non-profit organization based in Boys Town, Nebraska. The five-year grant, effective May 1, 2025 through April 30, 2030, will support research to understand the factors that influence speech perception and functional hearing in children. Key focus areas include...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $415,717 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The objective of this 2-year award, effective June 3, 2025, is to develop and test eye-gaze paradigms to more accurately assess receptive language and learning abilities in children with cerebral palsy and...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $244,154 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) program to the University of South Carolina. The grant, awarded on July 31, 2024, supports a research project investigating emotion regulation in children with developmental language disorder. The study aims to measure self-report, behavioral, and...
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...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $589,393 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to Northwestern University. The grant, with a project period from December 1, 2024 to November 30, 2029, will support research to elucidate how the neural circuit of the mammalian cochlea assembles during development. The project aims to generate...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $117,912 Project Grant under CFDA 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" to the University of Wisconsin - Madison. The grant, awarded on December 15, 2025, will support research to examine the effect of code-switching on implicit novel word learning in bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $131,555 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) program to Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). The project aims to characterize how noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) affects the cortical representation and perception of complex natural sounds. Key objectives include: 1) Identifying the...
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...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $154,568 Project Grant (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) to the University of Southern California (USC) to conduct research on "Human Cochlear Masking and Suppression Measured Using Dynamic Stimuli." The award period runs from December 31, 2024 to June 30, 2025. Through this grant, USC will perform research to investigate solutions to problems relevant to...