The federal Project Grant award R21HD115222 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 $241,500 award aims to investigate how speech from young children may influence language development in infants. The key objectives are to: 1) examine infant preferences and word recognition for speech produced by children versus adults, 2) collect and analyze a corpus of play...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Nursing Research (CFDA 93.361 Nursing Research) provides $239,384 to the University of Maryland, Baltimore to examine family communication and adaptation among siblings of seriously ill children in pediatric palliative care. The key objectives are to: 1) determine the relationship between family demands, family communication, and sibling adaptation; 2) identify communication needs, challenges, and preferences among siblings and parents; and...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD, CFDA 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $211,875.00 to New York University School of Medicine to validate a self-report measure of cognitive stimulation in the home environment. The project, titled "Validation of the STIMQ Self Report: A Measure of Cognitive Stimulation in the Home", aims to establish the reliability and validity of the STIMQ2SR, a...
This federal Project Grant award for $146,373.00 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) supports research to understand adolescents' cross-gender friendships, with a focus on examining behavioral differences between boys and girls. The research involves observing 120 adolescents (60 cross-gender friend dyads) to code their responses when disclosing personal problems, with the goal of identifying...
This federal Project Grant award in the amount of $519,710.90 was issued on September 12, 2024 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 award supports research to investigate the development of youth resilience to neighborhood disadvantage across the transitions from middle childhood to adolescence and emerging adulthood. Specifically, the research aims to examine how...
This $154,000 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 support research on parents' informal and formal support networks (safety nets) and their influence on child welfare outcomes for families involved with child protective services (CPS). The key objectives of this 2-year project are to: (a) identify parents' informal and formal support systems over...
This Project Grant award of $183,763.00 from 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 on the role of environmental context in early semantic network development. The project will be conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison over a period of approximately 3 years, with a start date of September 30, 2024 and an ultimate completion date of May 31, 2027. The...
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), provides $603,726 to fund a research project focused on improving the identification of genetic contributors to rare neurodevelopmental disorders in children. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: 1) sequencing the genomes of 500 affected individuals using advanced...
The $235,564 Project Grant award (R21HD118539) from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) supports a research project at Duke University investigating the long-term health consequences of childhood maltreatment and foster care placement. The project leverages data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to (1) extend the analysis of health outcomes from...
This federal Project Grant award in the amount of $1,437,800.00 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 grant will fund a prospective mixed-methods study to examine multilevel factors influencing family formation plans among sexual and gender minority (SGM) couples. The research aims to: 1) quantitatively test the impact of state-level structural stigma and...
This federal Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $662,974, 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 grant supports the development and validation of the Sibling Prosocial Relationship Questionnaire (SPRQ), a child- and parent-report measure to assess sibling relationship quality for children aged 8 to 17. The research aims to enhance the measurement of sibling relationships, which are critical for child social, emotional, and cognitive development. This innovative project leverages rigorous PROMIS methodology to improve measurement precision and reliability. The research will also validate the SPRQ against measures of child behavioral and emotional attributes, examining associations with emotional/behavioral regulation and other social relationships. The grant was awarded to Case Western Reserve University, a leading research institution with extensive expertise in biomedical sciences and healthcare research. The project will run from May 15, 2025, to April 30, 2030.