This National Science Foundation project grant of $752,048 supports research into early bilingual language development from 2023 to 2027. The award is made under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program to further understanding of how young children learn two languages simultaneously. Specifically, the University of California, Davis will examine parent-child interactions in monolingual English and bilingual Spanish-English families of Mexican heritage. Researchers will observe...
This federal Project Grant award of $662,034 was provided by 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). The award will fund a research project led by The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) to conduct a large-scale, longitudinal study on the mechanisms underlying developmental dyslexia. The project aims to characterize the role of visual...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research - provides $621,032 to Trustees of Boston University to conduct a longitudinal study examining the development of white matter pathways and their relationship to reading development in bilingual children. The study aims to disentangle how bilingualism and reading abilities interact to shape brain structure over time, and...
This $1,368,776 Project Grant award from 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) will fund two randomized controlled trials to optimize early phonological awareness instruction for supporting reading and spelling acquisition in children. The key products and services to be delivered include: Evaluating the relative impacts on phonemic awareness, reading,...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the CFDA program "Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research" (93.865) will provide $431,750.00 to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to conduct an exploratory investigation on bilingualism, executive function, and brain organization in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The project aims to 1) characterize the associations between bilingualism...
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...
This 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 examine the interactions between dual language input, semantic structure, and word learning in bilingual toddlers, both typically developing and late talking. The $193,752 award will fund a 5-year project at Boston University to 1) model children's lexicons and characterize the relationship between dual...
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...
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) was awarded a $691,353 federal 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). The grant will fund a longitudinal investigation of the impact of bilingualism on executive function and brain organization in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Over a 5-year period from April 2025 to December 2029, the...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to the University of South Carolina in the amount of $214,925.00, with a start date of August 7, 2024 and an ultimate completion date of July 31, 2026. This grant will fund research to investigate "EARLY PREDICTORS OF INFANT-PARENT COORDINATED ATTENTION AND WORD LEARNING IN PRETERM AND FULL-TERM INFANTS". The research aims...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $1,272,902 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to the University of South Carolina. The purpose of this 5-year project is to develop assessment protocols that reliably identify language and reading disorders among Spanish-English bilingual students in kindergarten through 2nd grade.
Specifically, the project aims to: 1) develop an empirically-derived protocol to identify word reading difficulty (dyslexia), 2) develop a protocol to identify developmental language disorder, and 3) examine how reading ability heterogeneity influences links between word reading, oral language, and reading comprehension. The research will integrate data from static bilingual assessments, dynamic learning-based assessments, and parent/teacher reports to establish valid and reliable diagnostic markers. As part of the project, Texas A&M University will collect data for approximately 50% of the total 400 student sample.