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), aims to determine the efficacy and underlying mechanisms of a media-based intervention versus a caregiver-led shared reading intervention to promote early literacy skills in low-socioeconomic status (SES) preschoolers. The $404,515 award to The Ohio State University will fund a randomized controlled...
This federal Project Grant award, totaling $1,372,466.00, was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The primary goal of the project is to evaluate the efficacy of an integrated intervention called Supporting Attention and Reading for Kids (SPARK) in improving reading and attention outcomes for upper elementary students (grades 3-5) with co-occurring reading and...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $132,867.00 and awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), supports research to investigate how individual differences in statistical learning impact the cross-modal transfer from auditory materials in spoken language to written text during the initial stages of reading development. The primary research objectives are to: 1) establish...
This Project Grant award of $1,272,902 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to develop reliable diagnostic protocols for identifying language and reading disorders among Spanish-English bilingual learners in kindergarten through 2nd grade. The primary objectives are to: 1) develop empirically-derived protocols to identify word reading difficulty (dyslexia) and...
This Project Grant award of $1,220,412 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will support a study to identify predictors of intervention outcomes in students with reading disabilities. The University of Connecticut (UConn) will lead the research, which aims to: 1) establish trajectories and predictors of reading gains in students with reading disabilities at specialized...
This Project Grant award of $160,000 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under CFDA 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program, will support a study investigating the nature and correlates of specific reading comprehension deficit (SRCD) in children and adolescents. The project aims to (1) examine the prevalence and characteristics of SRCD in large representative samples, and (2) identify domain-specific, domain-general, and...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to examine the recruitment and connectivity of executive function skills in relation to reading and math abilities in 7-8 year old children. The $128,250 award, effective September 17, 2024 through August 31, 2026, will support behavioral and neuroimaging research at Vanderbilt University to...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to The Ohio State University in the amount of $1,856,136.00, with a project period from Aug 19, 2024 to Jul 31, 2029. The grant supports research to illuminate how semantic organization emerges in the course of child development and how it contributes to language comprehension. The project will conduct three studies...
This Project Grant award of $662,034 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will fund a research study to characterize the mechanisms associated with word reading difficulties, such as developmental dyslexia. The research team at The Leland Stanford Junior University will develop an open-source online platform called the Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR) to collect...
This Project Grant award, valued at $252,885.00, was granted by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305) to the University of California, Irvine (UCI). The award will investigate the impact of the LETRS literacy program on teacher knowledge, instructional practice, and student literacy outcomes. As part of this project, UCI has issued a $XX,XXX sub-award to The Ohio State University...