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 $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 $304,935 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of an innovative, technology-driven solution to enhance decoding ability and reading fluency for learners with dyslexia. The awardee, Luca AI, LLC, is developing an adaptive phonetic analysis system that leverages advanced speech recognition to identify reading errors with high granularity. This will generate customized,...
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, 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 $2,083,321 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the CFDA 84.305 Education Research, Development and Dissemination program supports the "THE USING GENERATIVE AI FOR READING R & D CENTER" research initiative. The primary awardee, Digital Promise Global, will lead the center's work, which includes: Amira Learning, Inc. leading the platform team to develop AI-enabled reading assessment and instructional...
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 $276,000 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships grant funds Objective ED, Inc. to develop a computer-based co-reading prototype for students with reading disabilities. The prototype will use cloud infrastructure and a user application to perform co-reading with students, validating reading accuracy and offering remediation for mistakes. It will allow teachers to customize lessons and monitor student progress using engaging book content. Data captured will...
This federal 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, totaling $1,368,776, supports a research project titled "Optimizing Early Phonological Awareness Instruction to Support Reading and Spelling Acquisition." The primary awardee is The Ohio State University, with a sub-award to Florida State University. The project aims to conduct two randomized controlled...
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 $146,816 to The Leland Stanford Junior University to conduct research on how affective information shapes early word learning in children. The research aims to quantify the affective context of children's learning environments using experimental studies and observational analyses of video data,...