Project Grant R01HD112521

This Project Grant award of $2,424,192, provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA Program 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, supports a research project titled "Predicting Intervention Outcomes in Reading Disabled Students Using In-School Cognitive Neuroscience".

The primary objectives of this award are to: 1) Establish trajectories and predictors of reading gains in reading disabled students at learning disability schools using standardized measures and school-based instructional data; 2) Empirically test the predictive utility and trajectories of three theoretically motivated behavioral and neurobiological measures of reading; 3) Assess the generalizability of the findings by including a diverse sample of readers from public and charter schools; and 4) Investigate the multivariate relations between the behavioral, neural, and instructional measures and reading growth across the different student samples. This research will be conducted through a collaborative effort between the University of Connecticut and Yale University, with Yale overseeing the neuroimaging data collection and analysis. The award period runs from September 2024 through May 2029.