This Project Grant award, identified as R21DC021769, is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310). The $514,152 award to the San Diego State University (SDSU) Research Foundation, a minority-serving non-profit organization, aims to develop tools for assessing communication in racially and ethnically diverse autistic adolescents who are minimally verbal or have language impairment. The project will utilize a participatory approach, including a Delphi study with 24 diverse experts, as well as remote assessments of 70 diverse adolescents with autism and their caregivers. The key objectives are to develop probes for measuring communicative feedback, which is critical for language acquisition and use, and to examine how caregiver feedback and personal interests predict communicative success in this population. The findings will support the development of a future R01 proposal to further study language and communication in diverse autistic adolescents transitioning to adulthood.
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