Project Grant R01HD112311

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program totaling $650,000 will fund research from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2027 on the characteristics of media use and linguistic trajectories during early childhood. The Ohio State University Office of Sponsored Programs will study how young children from ages 3 to 5 use media on average over two hours per day, and how this impacts their language development over time. The research will...

Summary The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) awarded the University of Arizona a $172,085 Project Grant on August 1, 2025, under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) to conduct translational research on light-based intervention strategies for improving sleep and circadian health in early childhood. The primary deliverable is a five-week feasibility and preliminary efficacy study involving children ages 5.0–6.9 years with parent-reported sleep onset...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded $429,000 to the Regents of the University of Michigan on August 11, 2025, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The project, titled "Early Infant Affinity Toward Screens," will develop and test a novel research paradigm to characterize infants' behavioral and physiological responses to screen media exposure....

Grant Award Summary The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University a five-year project grant of $1,336,356 beginning September 1, 2025, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). This multisite telehealth randomized controlled trial will develop and evaluate a structured, parent-mediated behavioral intervention for...

This $778,398 National Institute of Mental Health project grant will fund research at the University of California, San Diego to test the accuracy of eye tracking as an early screening tool for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the general pediatric population. The research aims to screen approximately 8,000 toddlers ages 12-24 months attending well-baby checkups over the five-year period from May 2023 to March 2028. Researchers will use eye tracking technology to measure social attention...

Federal Grant Award Summary Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) received a $150,803 Project Grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to conduct a two-year developmental cognitive neuroscience study spanning September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2027. The research will investigate how rapid video-switching features on interactive video...

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), awarded a $712,096 Project Grant to Oregon Research Behavioral Intervention Strategies, Inc. (doing business as Influents Innovations), to develop and evaluate a smart speaker-based parenting education tool called "Talk Parenting (TP)". The grant will fund the completion of the TP program, which provides...

This federal Project Grant award, valued at $606,480.00 and provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports research examining the impact of social media use on the mental health and academic achievements of adolescents. The research team at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) will conduct an experimental study, randomly assigning adolescents to a treatment group that receives incentives to reduce social...

This Project Grant award of $342,906 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports research at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey's Newark campus. The project aims to explore how children's early media experiences shape their expectations for learning from digital media devices, and how those expectations impact their STEM learning outcomes. Using a combination of behavioral, physiological, and computational approaches, the research will examine...

This three-year $563,797 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to design health data-tracking technologies tailored for children. Led by the University of California Irvine, the award supports examining challenges in tracking children's health data through smartwatches, fitness bands, and patient monitors. The project consists of three stages. First, interviews will study data literacy, tracking experiences, and...