This $1,220,412 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) aims to collect behavioral and neurobiological data from two cohorts of students with reading disabilities (RD) as they undergo reading intervention in their school curricula. The research will be conducted by the University of Connecticut (UConn) with support from a sub-award to Yale University. The key products/services...
This Project Grant award 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 $1,368,776 award, with a period of performance from Sep 16, 2024 to Aug 31, 2029, funds research to optimize early phonological awareness instruction in order to support reading and spelling acquisition in children, particularly those from marginalized populations.
The primary awardee, The Ohio...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $239,144 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to develop and pilot test implementation strategies for caregivers (Supporting School Success for Caregivers, or SSS-C) to support the use of evidence-based behavioral interventions for children with or at-risk for ADHD. This grant aims to address the need for caregiver-facing implementation supports to help them...
This $128,250 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) supports research to examine the recruitment and connectivity of executive function (EF) skills in relation to reading and math abilities in 7-8 year old children. The project aims to: 1) distinguish the recruitment of domain-general vs. domain-specific EF, 2) examine the connectivity between...
This Project Grant award of $355,293.00 from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Research in Special Education program (CFDA 84.324) supports the development and evaluation of a narrative language and reading comprehension intervention called "Guided, Explicit Teaching of Oral Narratives to Improve Narrative Text Comprehension (GET ON IT!)" for emergent bilingual students with or at risk for reading disabilities in grades 2-4.
The project...
The U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $160,000 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to Northwestern University to investigate the nature and correlates of specific reading comprehension deficit (SRCD) in children and adolescents. The 2-year project aims to (1) explore the prevalence and characteristics of SRCD in large representative samples, and (2) identify domain-specific, domain-general, and...
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), will fund a large-scale research project to characterize the mechanisms associated with word reading difficulties, such as developmental dyslexia. The $662,034 award to The Leland Stanford Junior University will support the development of an open-source assessment platform called the Rapid Online...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), will fund a study to investigate the dynamic relationships between physical activity, sleep, and circadian rhythms with neurobehavioral heterogeneity in children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The $826,902 award to the Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Inc., a non-profit medical research organization in...
This $466,640 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to investigate how the parietal lobe and cerebellum of the brain mature during childhood development to support visuospatial attention and reading skills. The 5-year project, awarded to Princeton University starting in August 2024, aims to measure how visual spatial representations in these brain regions change from childhood...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $673,803 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants) to the University of Pittsburgh - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education. The grant will fund a 5-year study (Dec 2024 - Nov 2029) examining the relationship between parent-child neural synchrony, focused attention, and the development of ADHD symptoms in preschool-aged children. The research team will use functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to measure...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $1,372,466 to Harvard University to conduct research on integrating evidence-based practices for attention and reading intervention for upper elementary students with co-occurring reading and attention difficulties.
The primary aim of the study is to evaluate the effects of the "Supporting Attention and Reading for Kids" (SPARK) intervention on reading and attention outcomes immediately post-intervention and over two subsequent school years. The project will employ a three-arm randomized controlled trial to compare the SPARK integrated intervention, a reading-only intervention, and typical classroom practices. This research seeks to improve theoretical understanding of the relationships between reading, attention, and other factors, while also providing clinical insights to address reading disabilities, a significant public health concern.