The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a 5-year, $409,280 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to The Trustees of Princeton University. The grant will fund the "CRCNS: Building and Testing Computational Models of the Neural Basis of Natural Communication" project, which aims to: Create a dataset of 750 hours of continuous electrocorticography (ECoG) data from epilepsy...
This $1,901,475 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 two randomized clinical trials to test new treatments for improving complex sentence comprehension and use in children with developmental language disorder (DLD). The research will compare explicit rule-based and implicit learning approaches to treating passive sentences and...
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), provides $196,143 to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to examine the feasibility of using eye-tracking technology as a measure of implicit word comprehension for autistic children who are minimally verbal or non-speaking. The study aims to: (1) evaluate the feasibility of...
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 $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 federal Project Grant award of $404,212 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA Program 93.173 (Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) aims to investigate whether Aphasia Identification (ID) cards can improve unfamiliar communication partners' comprehension of individuals with aphasia. The award will fund a randomized controlled trial enrolling 160 service workers to evaluate the impact of Aphasia ID cards on the...
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 federal Project Grant award of $589,930, provided 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 investigate sex and gender differences in language impairment, disability, and service receipt. The primary goal is to determine why girls are less likely to receive language services than boys, which aligns with NIH's interest in diversity and the NIDCD's focus on...
This 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 to examine the effects of background noise on real-time speech processing efficiency in school-age children with normal hearing and children using hearing aids. The $295,840 award will fund a study using eye-tracking technology to investigate the impacts of speech-shaped noise...
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) aims to enhance language recovery and quality of life for stroke survivors with aphasia. The $429,000 award to The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. will investigate the use of excitatory theta burst stimulation (TBS) in combination with Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA) therapy to improve...