This $196,109 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) will fund research to understand how caregiver interaction strategies influence moment-to-moment reciprocal communication in nonspeaking autistic children aged 4-6 years old. The key objectives are to evaluate the impact of caregiver imitation and multimodal communication on reciprocal interactions, and determine...
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 $201,250 to Duke University to conduct research examining potential precursors to language impairment in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The research aims to leverage recent advances in remote assessment of infant cognitive development to investigate three proposed...
This federal Project Grant award of $743,412 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), will fund research to evaluate different parent-implemented naturalistic communication intervention (PI-NCI) modalities for improving language outcomes among children of parents with substance use disorders (SUD). The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) a...
This $314,152 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) aims 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 and 140 participants (70 minimally verbal autistic or those with language...
This Project Grant award for $428,054 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Federal Grant Program "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" (CFDA 93.173), will fund a study on deaf preschoolers' exploratory behaviors and parental guidance during shared museum experiences. The research aims to uncover relationships between motor exploratory behaviors and learning outcomes in deaf and hearing children whose parents...
This $160,000 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), will support research by Northwestern University to investigate the mechanistic underpinnings of pragmatic language impairments in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and FMR1 mutation conditions. The research aims to characterize the motor-speech skills contributing to pragmatic...
This $726,359 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) supports research into the factors influencing speech perception and functional hearing in children. The project aims to: 1) evaluate how children's speech recognition is affected by natural speech conditions like unfamiliar accents, conversational speech, and child talkers; 2) assess...
This $2,308,368 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) supports research to investigate the relationship between visual attention, multimodal communication cues, and expressive language development in typically developing children and those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The research, led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center, will leverage existing datasets and conduct new...
This $641,726 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), aims to investigate the role of neuronal and immune system dysfunction in auditory system deficits associated with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). The key objectives are to: 1) characterize the expression patterns of the ASD risk gene MEF2C in spiral ganglion neurons and cochlear...
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), will fund a $710,632 study to identify and distinguish early indicators of autism in Latino children. The primary objectives are to: 1) Identify and distinguish Latino children's language and communication profiles through cross-sectional analysis; 2) Assess and characterize the...