This Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders totaling $127,244.81 was awarded on March 10, 2021 to Father Flanagan's Boys' Home to fund research related to prediction processes in children with developmental language disorder. The award supports research aligned with the objectives of the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $192,289 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to The MGH Institute of Health Professions, Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts. The objective of this 3-year project is to determine the impact of modeling verbal mediation on shifting task performance in school-aged children with developmental language disorder (DLD). The project aims to elucidate the...
This $644,690 Project Grant award, 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 support two randomized clinical trials to develop and evaluate new treatments for improving complex sentence comprehension and use in children with developmental language disorder (DLD). The grant will involve researchers at Ohio University, Utah State University, and the University...
This Project Grant award of $145,642 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 to investigate emotion regulation in children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). The study aims to measure self-report, behavioral, and physiological indicators of emotion regulation during linguistically demanding and domain-general tasks. This research will...
This federal Project Grant award of $589,930.00 was 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). The primary goal of this 5-year research project is to determine why girls are less likely to receive language services than boys, despite research suggesting near parity in the ratio of boys to girls meeting criteria for developmental language disorder. The project...
This Project Grant award of $827,851 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 the language development of deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children. The project aims to create growth curves for expressive American Sign Language (ASL) and English skills of 250 DHH children aged 0-8 years, providing critical data on the natural history of language...
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), totaling $181,827, will fund research to investigate the impact of disfluencies on language processing and learning in monolingual and bilingual children with and without Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). The study will utilize eye-tracking visual world tasks to assess predictive...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders federal grant program (CFDA 93.173), will support a $194,375 research project to assess language access and neural language processing in preschool children who are deaf or hard of hearing (CDHH). The key objectives of the project are to: 1) Develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a novel Speech Accessibility Index...
This federal Project Grant award for $1,339,013.47, awarded on August 23, 2024 by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), will fund the "EMERGE: Early Markers of Expressive and Receptive (Language) Growth in Ethnically Diverse Autistic Toddlers" research project under the NIDCD's Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173). The project aims to investigate language development in 132 autistic toddlers aged 18-30...
The federal Project Grant award R21DC022337, totaling $489,500.00, was granted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310). This award will fund a retrospective data analysis study conducted by Boston Children's Hospital, a non-profit pediatric medical research institution in Boston, Massachusetts, to investigate early predictors of late talking and primary language impairment in young children. The key objectives...
This $602,895 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of brain structural, functional, neurochemical, and myelination properties in the working memory network of children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). The 5-year project will use advanced MRI techniques to identify atypical brain patterns in 90 children with DLD compared to 90 typically developing controls, aged 6-12 years. The research will map the neural mechanisms underlying DLD and their relationship to language impairment, with the goal of elucidating the origins of behavioral deficits and guiding future therapeutic interventions. The award recipient is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home, a non-profit research organization in Nebraska with extensive experience in neuroscience and communication disorders research.