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 Project Grant award of $201,250 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA Program 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" supports research to examine precursors to language impairment in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The project aims to leverage recent advances in remote assessment of infant cognitive development to test three proposed mechanisms underlying language impairment in ASD: atypical speech...
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 $1,204,102 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 brain structural and functional abnormalities in the executive function network of children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). The 5-year project, starting on April 10, 2025, aims to use advanced multi-modal MRI methods to comprehensively map...
This Federal Project Grant award of $244,154 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under their Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), will support research to model individual differences in the temporal dynamics of spoken word recognition in autistic young adults. The research will utilize EEG and machine learning to examine individual differences in the neural and temporal dynamics of spoken word...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The $1,339,013.47 grant, awarded on August 23, 2024, will fund the "EMERGE: Early Markers of Expressive and Receptive (Language) Growth in Ethnically Diverse Autistic Toddlers" research project. The goal of this study is to understand the measures...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $1,277,317 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). The award period runs from August 15, 2024 through May 31, 2029. The grant supports research to investigate the relationship between autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and auditory system deficits, with a focus on the role of neuronal and immune...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $400,644 Project Grant under CFDA 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" to the University of Houston System. The grant aims to investigate the use of speech entrainment, which measures how conversational partners align their speech patterns, as a quantifiable metric to predict conversational outcomes for autistic adolescents. The project seeks to gain a comprehensive...
This Project Grant award, worth $270,520.00, was provided by 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). The project aims to generate a sensitive, quantitative metric of vocal communication for minimally-speaking individuals by tracking their phonological vocalization complexity over time. The principal investigator will enroll 90 individuals aged 6-35 years...
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...