This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), provides $433,438 to Miami University to study the attention-regulating strategies used by deaf and hearing parents of autistic children. The project aims to compare the modalities and strategies employed by deaf and hearing caregivers to obtain and maintain the visual attention of their...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $196,109 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) federal grant program to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. The project, titled "Understanding How Caregivers Shape Reciprocal Communication with Nonspeaking Autistic Children", aims to investigate how common caregiver interaction strategies influence moment-to-moment changes in...
This Project Grant award, valued at $314,152, was granted by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) federal grant program. The primary objective is to develop and use probes to measure communicative feedback in racially and ethnically diverse autistic adolescents who are minimally verbal or have language impairment. The project will recruit 24 expert panelists, 70 diverse...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $743,412 Project Grant (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) to the University of Oregon. The grant, effective December 1, 2024 through November 30, 2029, will fund research to evaluate the comparative effectiveness and implementation outcomes of different parent-implemented naturalistic communication intervention...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $415,717 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The objective of this 2-year award, effective June 3, 2025, is to develop and test eye-gaze paradigms to more accurately assess receptive language and learning abilities in children with cerebral palsy and...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders federal grant program (CFDA 93.173), awarded a $295,840 Project Grant (Award ID: R21DC022555) to The House Institute Foundation in Los Angeles, CA. The grant supports a study examining the effects of background noise on real-time lexical access and semantic activation during speech recognition in school-age children with normal hearing and children...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the federal Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), will support research to examine precursors to language impairment in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The $201,250 award to Duke University aims to leverage recent advances in remote cognitive assessment of infants to better understand the underlying mechanisms of language...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), awarded a $1,339,013.47 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for the "EMERGE: Early Markers of Expressive and Receptive (Language) Growth in Ethnically Diverse Autistic Toddlers" study. This 5-year project, starting August 2024, aims to deeply phenotype 132 18-month-old autistic toddlers with...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), provides $251,856 to New York University to investigate the neuroplasticity and early adaptations of the brain to cochlear implants. The research aims to study how the brain coordinates early adjustments to cochlear implants, which restore hearing and speech perception in individuals with...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $117,912 Project Grant under CFDA 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" to the University of Wisconsin - Madison. The grant, awarded on December 15, 2025, will support research to examine the effect of code-switching on implicit novel word learning in bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder...